{"id":453560,"date":"2026-02-10T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/453560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:42:15","slug":"ilia-malinin-has-alex-ovechkins-laces-on-skates-at-olympics-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/453560\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin has Alex Ovechkin&#8217;s laces on skates at Olympics: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10, 2026, 9:35 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ilia Malinin &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2026\/02\/07\/ilia-malinin-quad-god-explaining-figure-skating-nickname\/88448644007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AKA the Quad God<\/a> &#8212; has already won a gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics with Team USA, but as he&#8217;s going for more, you may not know that he has quite the good luck charm: A certain pair of skate laces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As reports noted from Milan Cortina last week, Malinin revealed that he was gifted a pair of yellow laces from Washington Capitals legend Alex Ovechkin. Given that Malinin is from nearby Fairfax, Virginia, there&#8217;s a connection there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So if you see those yellow laces as he competes for another medal and more Olympic glory, you&#8217;ll know why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Super cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 10, 2026, 9:35 a.m. ET Ilia Malinin &#8212; AKA the Quad God &#8212; has already won a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[50358,191,5,4,50487,50488,50456,50368,50454,55053,50455,50363,50365,50361,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-453560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sstssportsolympics","13":"tag-sstsnolympics","14":"tag-tag2026-winter-olympics-milano-cortina","15":"tag-tagalex-ovechkin","16":"tag-tagice-skating","17":"tag-tagice-skating-equipment","18":"tag-tagolympics","19":"tag-tagoverall-positive","20":"tag-tagsports-news","21":"tag-typestory","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-washington-capitals","24":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116048045318852600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453560","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=453560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}