{"id":414110,"date":"2026-01-18T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414110\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:55:15","slug":"memorable-game-moments-for-caps-fathers-after-the-birth-of-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414110\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorable Game Moments for Caps Fathers After the Birth of Their Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Chychrun\u2019s wife, Olivia, gave birth to their first child yesterday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BaileyAJohnson_\/status\/2012696749169684640\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Washington Post\u2019s Bailey Johnson<\/a>. Sure enough, Chychrun scored two goals for the Caps against the Panthers on Saturday, which isn\u2019t the first time a Caps player did something spectacular on the ice after the birth of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Though hardly a comprehensive list, here are some recent examples.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, Dylan Strome learned his third daughter had been born during the first intermission of a game on November 20, 2025 against Montreal. He had three assists in an 8-4 game.<\/p>\n<p>Though he missed a game due to the birth of his son in October of 2023, Former Caps goalie Darcy Kuemper secured a 3-2 shootout win for the Capitals over the Calgary Flames, making 38 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Former Caps defenseman Matt Irwin scored his first goal as a Capital in 2022, just hours after his wife gave birth to their second child the day prior. The Caps won, 9-2, and he also had an assist.<\/p>\n<p>John Carlson scored a goal in a playoff game against the Penguins in 2018, the day after his wife gave birth to their second son on the Friday night before the game. The Caps won Game 5, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McMichael had a pre-birth goal streak. On October 23, 2024, the day his girlfriend went into labor, he scored two unanswered goals against the Philadelphia Flyers, securing a 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll look for more examples of the Caps\u2019 \u2018Dad Strength.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakob Chychrun\u2019s wife, Olivia, gave birth to their first child yesterday, according to The Washington Post\u2019s Bailey Johnson.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,284,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-414110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jakob-chychrun","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-washington","13":"tag-washington-capitals","14":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115915739975511756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}