{"id":544955,"date":"2026-04-07T05:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:13:31","slug":"capitals-recall-ilya-protas-from-hershey-prospect-could-make-nhl-debut-vs-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544955\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals Recall Ilya Protas From Hershey, Prospect Could Make NHL Debut vs. Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, V.A. \u2014 It\u2019s time for Little Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals have recalled center Ilya Protas, the younger brother of Capitals forward Aliaksei, from the AHL\u2019s Hershey Bears.<\/p>\n<p>His NHL debut could come as soon as Wednesday against the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Protas, who was taken in the third round of the 2024 NHL Draft, has been making significant strides this season, emerging as one of the AHL\u2019s top rookies.<\/p>\n<p>Through 66 games with the Bears this season, the 6-foot-6 forward has 28 goals and 34 assists for 62 points, the most among first-year AHLers this season and sixth among all league skaters.<\/p>\n<p>Protas\u2019 recall comes at a pivotal time for the Capitals, who sit three points out of playoff position with just four games to go in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear where he\u2019ll slot in to start, though he\u2019s shown that he\u2019s a capable centerman at the highest level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, V.A. \u2014 It\u2019s time for Little Pro. The Washington Capitals have recalled center Ilya Protas, the younger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,4301,5,4,16463,66,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-544955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hershey-bears","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-protas","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-capitals","16":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361717582295177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544955","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=544955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}