{"id":1934448,"date":"2026-09-22T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934448"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:02:18","slug":"ovechkin-is-back-and-the-capitals-added-significant-talent-in-the-offseason-after-missing-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934448","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin is back, and the Capitals added significant talent in the offseason after missing playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fans and even some opponents started saying their goodbyes to Alex Ovechkin late last season, the NHL\u2019s career goal-scoring leader decided to return for a 22nd NHL season. The 41-year-old Ovechkin won\u2019t be asked to carry the load on a Washington team that made significant additions in the o&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/559af-ovechkin-is-back-and-the-capitals-added-significant-talent-in-the-offseason-after-missing-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fans and even some opponents started saying their goodbyes to Alex Ovechkin late last season, the NHL\u2019s career goal-scoring leader decided to return for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1934449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116],"class_list":["post-1934448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934450,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934448\/revisions\/1934450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}