{"id":555867,"date":"2026-04-19T08:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:36:27","slug":"ovechkin-prepared-to-train-stay-in-nhl-shape-if-he-returns-wants-capitals-to-contend-you-have-to-work-your-ass-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555867\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin Prepared To Train &#038; Stay In NHL Shape If He Returns, Wants Capitals To Contend: &#8216;You Have To Work Your Ass Off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Well, it\u2019s up to me, like how I\u2019m going to handle<br \/>\nmy body, how I\u2019m going to train. Like when you\u2019re in the season and you<br \/>\nhave a 25-30 minute skate, it\u2019s nice. But in the summer, you have to<br \/>\nwork your ass off to get better and be in shape,&#8221; Ovechkin pointed out. &#8220;When you\u2019re 20, it\u2019s a normal thing, but when you\u2019re 40, it\u2019s kind of, like, harder and harder every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Well, it\u2019s up to me, like how I\u2019m going to handle my body, how I\u2019m going to train.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-555867","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-nhl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-capitals","13":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116430463593935090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555867","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=555867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}