{"id":36610,"date":"2025-03-21T02:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/capitals-ovechkin-nets-888th-career-goal-to-move-seven-off-gretzkys-record\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T02:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:21:46","slug":"capitals-ovechkin-nets-888th-career-goal-to-move-seven-off-gretzkys-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/capitals-ovechkin-nets-888th-career-goal-to-move-seven-off-gretzkys-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals\u2019 Ovechkin nets 888th career goal to move seven off Gretzky\u2019s record"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ovechkin inches closer to Gretzky\u2019s career goals mark<\/li>\n<li>Capitals beat Flyers 3-2 at Capital One Arena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin has scored his 888th career goal to move seven away from breaking Wayne Gretzky\u2019s NHL career record.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin scored in the Washington Capitals\u2019 home game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night, beating Samuel Ersson with 5:35 left in the first period. The goal counter in the corner of the arena flipped to 888, and fans chanted \u201cOvi! Ovi!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/alex-ovechkin-washington-capitals-gretzky-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ovechkin inches closer to Gretzky\u2019s career goals mark Capitals beat Flyers 3-2 at Capital One Arena Alex Ovechkin has scored his 888th career goal to move seven away from breaking Wayne Gretzky\u2019s NHL career record. Ovechkin scored in the Washington Capitals\u2019 home game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night, beating Samuel Ersson with 5:35 &#8230; <a title=\"Capitals\u2019 Ovechkin nets 888th career goal to move seven off Gretzky\u2019s record\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/capitals-ovechkin-nets-888th-career-goal-to-move-seven-off-gretzkys-record\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Capitals\u2019 Ovechkin nets 888th career goal to move seven off Gretzky\u2019s record\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}