{"id":67,"date":"2013-10-31T13:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:08:32","slug":"alex-ovechkin-to-miss-fridays-game-against-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/2013\/10\/31\/alex-ovechkin-to-miss-fridays-game-against-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin to miss Friday&#8217;s game against Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70\" alt=\"alexovechkin\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/10\/alexovechkin.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/10\/alexovechkin.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/10\/alexovechkin-593x392.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin will not play in Friday&#8217;s game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Ovechkin will not travel with the Washington Captials after suffering a shoulder injury earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark Ovechkin&#8217;s first missed game since Feb. 22, 2012 against Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/9KPFDC\/TMRr3YD6Euak\/embed\/select\/3Ox9ueqjX9lF?params=zone%3Dcsnvideo&amp;autoPlay=true\" height=\"270\" width=\"480\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Ovechkin got on the ice early Thursday in practice he did not attempt any shots or handle any pucks.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals coach Adam Oates confirmed that it occurred when Ovechkin was tripped by\u00a0Alexander Edler 1 minute 19 seconds seconds into the contest and sent crashing into Roberto Luongo and the Canucks\u2019 net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ovechkin will not play in Friday&#8217;s game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Ovechkin will not travel with the Washington Captials after suffering a shoulder injury earlier this week. This will mark Ovechkin&#8217;s first missed game since Feb. 22, 2012 against Ottawa. While Ovechkin got on the ice early Thursday in practice he did not attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,11,5,21],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-news","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-front","tag-nhl","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}