{"id":176512,"date":"2025-09-23T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176512\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:41:09","slug":"alex-ovechkin-skates-in-no-contact-jersey-leaves-ice-before-capitals-practice-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176512\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin skates in no-contact jersey, leaves ice before Capitals practice begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2246\" height=\"1498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/alex-ovechkin-light-blue-non-contact-jersey.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alex Ovechkin skating during practice\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin returned to the ice at Capitals Training Camp on Tuesday morning for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/09\/18\/alex-ovechkin-injury-leaves-capitals-first-training-camp-skate-early\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving the first day of camp early with a lower-body injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin, donning a light blue no-contact jersey, briefly skated at MedStar Capitals Iceplex but departed before Group A got their practice underway. He was not listed on the roster for either of their two groups remaining at camp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/capitals-training-camp-groups-092325.jpg\" alt=\"Training Camp groups on September 23, 2025\" width=\"1342\" height=\"1154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-556217\"  \/>\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old winger missed the last four skates overall. Monday was a team off day.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery previously labeled Ovechkin as \u201cday-to-day,\u201d and Ovechkin himself <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/09\/18\/alex-ovechkin-lower-body-injury-capitals-training-camp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was unconcerned about his ailment when he met with the media last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Ovechkin\u2019s quick twirl on the ice, Martin Fehervary and Justin Sourdif, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/09\/18\/martin-fehervary-matt-roy-justin-sourdif-no-contact-jerseys-capitals-training-camp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who began camp in their own no-contact jerseys<\/a>, took to the ice in regular practice sweaters. The Capitals also announced that Nic Dowd would miss Tuesday\u2019s skate for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals are set to play their next preseason game on Thursday at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, against the Philadelphia Flyers. Nine players <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/09\/23\/washington-capitals-first-training-camp-roster-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were cut from the club\u2019s preseason roster on Tuesday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB Alex Ovechkin returned to the ice at Capitals Training Camp on Tuesday morning for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-176512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}