BND - Alex Ovechkin announces retirement after 22 NHL seasons

🗞️ Story file #102

Alex Ovechkin announces retirement after 22 NHL seasons

Oct 5, 1 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

13outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 6🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
7people retold it online

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 5, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 6, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people
Oct 6, 12 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 1 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (NBC News)

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 washington capitals 🐘 ovechkin announces

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Alex Ovechkin tells his Washington Capitals teammates this is his final NHL season” → “Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin says his 22nd NHL season will be his last”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Alex Ovechkin announces this will be his final NHL season as all-time great career comes to a close” → “Hockey's greatest goal-scorer ever calling it quits after 22nd NHL season”
The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Capitals’ Ovechkin announces he will retire after this season” → “Capitals’ Ovechkin, NHL’s top all-time goal scorer, announces he’ll retire after this season”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Capitals star Alex Ovechkin announces final NHL season” → “Alex Ovechkin, the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer, announced that this season with the Capitals will be his last”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating