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Alexander Ovechkin announces final NHL season with Washington Capitals

Rank
Running
10h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
1
Countries
2
Languages
3

+0

Meduza Russia · English 5 Oct, 17:44 UTC

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Read it also in Русский (3) · Nederlands (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 11 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Interfax, 5 Oct, 15:07 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 15:07 UTC.
  3. Second country: Netherlands, with NU.nl.
  4. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

12 of 12 hours

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The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Europe 5 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Interfax 5 Oct, 15:07 UTC
  2. Kommersant +6m
  3. Meduza +2h 38m
  4. NU.nl +2h 53m
  5. Novaya Gazeta Europe +4h 4m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 2 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 2: Netherlands, Russia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Dutch, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Interfax, 5 Oct 2026, 15:07 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 15:20 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.85, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 373 2.78 5 2 5 2 4.1

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Started 5 Oct, 15:20 UTC · Updated 19:10 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Europe 5 outlets

  • Novaya Gazeta Europe Russia 5 Oct, 19:10 UTC
    Александр Овечкин объявил о завершении карьеры в НХЛ
  • NU.nl Netherlands 5 Oct, 18:00 UTC
    Omstreden ijshockeyicoon en NHL-topscorer Ovechkin kondigt pensioen aan
  • Meduza Russia 5 Oct, 17:44 UTC
    NHL regular-season goals champion Alexander Ovechkin says this season will be his last
  • Kommersant Russia 5 Oct, 15:12 UTC
    Александр Овечкин заявил, что проводит последний сезон в НХЛ
  • Interfax Russia 5 Oct, 15:07 UTC
    Овечкин объявил об уходе из "Вашингтона" по окончании сезона
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