{"id":1936622,"date":"2026-10-05T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1936622"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:02:11","slug":"washington-capitals-captain-alex-ovechkin-says-his-22nd-nhl-season-will-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1936622","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin says his 22nd NHL season will be his last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Capitals captain and career goal-scoring record holder Alex Ovechkin said this will be his final season in the NHL. Ovechkin said it was important to his family to let his fellow teammates know first. He signed a one-year contract and is playing at age 41 after breaking Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/3be11-washington-capitals-captain-alex-ovechkin-says-his-22nd-nhl-season-will-be-his-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Capitals captain and career goal-scoring record holder Alex Ovechkin said this will be his final season in the NHL. Ovechkin said it was important to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1936623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1936622","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","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936622","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=1936622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936624,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936622\/revisions\/1936624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}