{"id":177787,"date":"2025-09-29T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:48:07","slug":"alex-ovechkin-cleared-for-contact-at-capitals-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177787\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin cleared for contact at Capitals camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/washington-capitals\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-capitals\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Washington Capitals<\/a> star was out of a no-contact jersey for practice for the first time at training camp on Monday, NHL.com&#8217;s Tom Gulitti <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomGulittiNHL\/status\/1972647462704934941\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin, 40, left the ice on the first day of camp on Sept. 18 to be evaluated for a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals have three more pre-season games before their season opener on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin made history last season as he surpassed Wayne Gretzky to become the NHL&#8217;s all-time leading goal scorer.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 season will be the Russian&#8217;s 21st in the NHL. In that span, he&#8217;s recorded only one sub-30-goal season, which came in the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n<p>In 1,491 games, Ovechkin has 1,623 career points.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomGulittiNHL\/status\/1972647462704934941\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals star was out of a no-contact jersey for practice for the first time at training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-177787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}