{"id":445510,"date":"2026-02-02T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:43:09","slug":"martin-fehervary-missed-capitals-game-against-hurricanes-for-the-birth-of-his-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445510\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Fehervary missed Capitals game against Hurricanes for the birth of his first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/file-martin-fehervary-aland-3689.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"Martin Fehervary\"  decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><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 were without top-four defenseman Martin Fehervary against the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday night. The 26-year-old blueliner was listed as out due to \u201cpersonal reasons,\u201d and we now know what those reasons were.<\/p>\n<p>Fehervary and his girlfriend,\u00a0Natalia\u00a0Levius, welcomed their first child, a daughter whom they named Anna.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martin Fehervary and his girlfriend Natalia welcomed their first child, a daughter named Anna during Saturday&#8217;s game. Fehervary said he was so &#8220;starstruck&#8221; upon seeing her he wasn&#8217;t sure whether they&#8217;d had a boy or girl at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RMNB (@rmnb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rmnb\/status\/2018370076399862131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anna was born shortly after the conclusion of the first period on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Natalia <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/09\/27\/martin-fehervary-girlfriend-natalia-expecting-first-child\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first announced<\/a> the couple was expecting in an Instagram post this past September. \u201cHalf of me + half of you\u00a0\ud83e\udd0d,\u201d she wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<p>Fehervary is playing his fifth full NHL season with the Washington Capitals this year. The 25-year-old Slovak defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/07\/01\/martin-fehervary-contract-seven-year-extension-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a seven-year, $42 million contract extension with the club this past July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After missing Sunday\u2019s game, Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery revealed that Fehervary will be good to go against the New York Islanders on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Fehervary joins Dylan Strome, whose third daughter, Sutton, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/21\/dylan-strome-cries-birth-daughter-sutton-during-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was born during a November 21 game in Montreal against the Canadiens<\/a>, and Jakob Chychrun, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/01\/17\/jakob-chychrun-scores-two-goals-birth-first-child-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whose first child was born last month<\/a>, as Capitals players to welcome new kids this season.<\/p>\n<p>From everyone at RMNB, we\u2019d like to extend our congratulations to Martin and Natalia on the exciting news.<\/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 were without top-four defenseman Martin Fehervary against the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-445510","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\/445510","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=445510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}