{"id":550619,"date":"2026-04-11T22:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:03:32","slug":"ovechkin-gets-ovation-during-possible-final-game-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550619\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin gets ovation during possible final game in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOvi, thank you for 21 years of the greatest rivalry in hockey. It has been a pleasure,\u201d said the Penguins PA announcer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you want, we\u2019re ready to go for 22,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Fans at the arena gave Ovechkin a standing ovation, while the NHL\u2019s all-time leading scorer waved to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins players on the opposite bench joined in for the ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin is in the final season of a five-year, $47.5 million contract and said earlier this week that he will wait until the offseason to decide whether he&#8217;ll play in the NHL again next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOvi, thank you for 21 years of the greatest rivalry in hockey. It has been a pleasure,\u201d said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-550619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116388338456778714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550619","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=550619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}