{"id":548552,"date":"2026-04-09T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:45:11","slug":"ilya-protas-makes-unbelievable-caps-debut-in-shutout-of-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548552\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Protas makes \u2018unbelievable\u2019 Caps debut in shutout of Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3T6HTX4IAJHBDCTMFFCBDYBOVY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A younger Ilya Protas would have hung up the phone on someone trying to tell him what would happen in the April of his 20th year.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YKJBREZN2FHIJHZCAXYDJNPRMY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Protas, who turns 20 in July, didn\u2019t just make his NHL debut for the Washington Capitals on Wednesday in Toronto. He did it while centering a line between his older brother, Aliaksei, and standout veteran winger Tom Wilson. And he did it after earning the call-up to the NHL in his first professional season, amid a campaign for the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League that made him the highest-scoring rookie in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A younger Ilya Protas would have hung up the phone on someone trying to tell him what would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-548552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs","15":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116373403981378971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548552","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=548552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}