{"id":211234,"date":"2025-10-09T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:10:11","slug":"capitals-wear-26-pops-stickers-on-helmets-in-memory-of-nic-dowds-late-father-alan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211234\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals wear \u201926 Pops\u2019 stickers on helmets in memory of Nic Dowd\u2019s late father, Alan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anthony-beauvillier-nic-dowd-helmet.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Anthony Beauvillier skates during warmups\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals went the extra mile for Nic Dowd during their season-opening game against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Every player wore a sticker on the back of their helmet that included the number 26 and the word \u201cPops\u201d in memory of Dowd\u2019s late father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with Nic and the entire Dowd family as they mourn the loss of Nic\u2019s father, Alan, who passed away last week,\u201d the Capitals wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our thoughts are with Nic and the entire Dowd family as they mourn the loss of Nic\u2019s father, Alan, who passed away last week.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, our players will wear special helmet stickers in his honor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e79vyEz9if\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/e79vyEz9if<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/1976063618249548217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capitals coaches on the bench also wore pins on their suit coats.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd played in the first game of the preseason but missed seven days of training camp from September 23 through September 30 for personal\/family reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNice to get back to work and excited to get back in the swing of things,\u201d Dowd said when he returned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/declan-chisholm-nic-dowd-sticker.jpg\" alt=\"Declan Chisholm's helmet with a sticker on the back\" width=\"1342\" height=\"895\" class=\"size-full wp-image-559193\"  \/>\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB<\/p>\n<p>Everyone at RMNB extends our deepest sympathies to Nic and the rest of his family during this difficult time. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB The Washington Capitals went the extra mile for Nic Dowd during their season-opening game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-211234","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\/211234","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=211234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}