{"id":925035,"date":"2026-10-08T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925035\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:48:14","slug":"ovechkins-sons-introduce-capitals-captain-before-final-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925035\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin\u2019s sons introduce Capitals captain before final home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the game, Ovechkin reflected on his final home opener.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a huge crowd. My kids announced my name. It was a special moment,&#8221; the Capitals captain <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Capitals\/status\/2108037165418774869\" rel=\"nofollow\">said to the media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that his sons were nervous before announcing his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told them, &#8216;you don&#8217;t have to be worried. Don&#8217;t be nervous, just say it and it&#8217;s going to be fine,&#8221; Ovechkin said.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin was drafted by the Capitals with the No. 1 pick in the 2004 NHL Draft. His 929 career goals are the most in NHL history. He helped the Capitals to their first Stanley Cup championship in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In his 22 NHL seasons,\u00a0Ovechkin has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL points leader once (2007-08), the Hart Trophy as the League MVP three times (2007-08, 2008-09, 2012-13) and the Rocket Richard Trophy as the top goal scorer nine times (2007-08, 2008-09, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the game, Ovechkin reflected on his final home opener. &#8220;It was a huge crowd. My kids announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-925035","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\/925035","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=925035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}