{"id":267806,"date":"2025-11-03T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267806\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:09:08","slug":"heres-alex-ovechkin-decisively-winning-a-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267806\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Alex Ovechkin decisively winning a faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/file-alex-ovechkin-aland-0141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" 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>Alex Ovechkin is a man of many talents, and he proved that once again in the Washington Capitals\u2019 matchup against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>During four-on-four play in the third period, Hendrix Lapierre was kicked out of an offensive zone faceoff, forcing Ovechkin to try his hand at a draw against Sabres centerman Ryan McLeod (career FO winning percentage of 49.5 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Ovechkin win, but he decisively got to the puck first, sending the biscuit on his backhand right to defenseman Matt Roy.<\/p>\n<p>The faceoff win marked Ovechkin\u2019s first since the 2022-23 season, where he went 4-for-9 in the dot. In each of the previous two campaigns, Ovi took draws two times and lost all four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters?report=faceoffwins&amp;reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20052006&amp;seasonTo=20252026&amp;gameType=2&amp;playerPlayedFor=franchise.24&amp;sort=totalFaceoffWins,faceoffWinPct&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Overall in Ovechkin\u2019s career<\/a>, the winger has won 65 of his 191 faceoffs \u2014 good for a winning percentage of 34 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB Alex Ovechkin is a man of many talents, and he proved that once again in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-267806","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\/267806","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=267806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}