1,000 games
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Alex Ovechkin played in his 1,000th career game on Sunday, all 1,000 of which he played as a member of the Washington Capitals. JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir talk about Ovechkin's career and hear the thoughts of Ovechkin, Barry Trotz and Ted Leonsis about what 1,000 games means for the player and the franchise.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. |
| 0:11.6 | You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:18.8 | Thank you, Joe. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome in to a special edition of the Capitalist Face Off podcast, the Ovechkin 1,000th game edition of the Capitalist Face Off podcast. I am your host, the Capitals correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today. He's the Capitalist Insider. He's the Turtle to My Vincent. He's Tark Alba Shere. Tark, I'm way better looking to you. |
| 0:38.5 | How is this even possible? |
| 0:40.3 | What are we talking about? |
| 0:41.7 | That may be the most ridiculous thing you have said on the podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | What are we talking about? |
| 0:47.5 | Folks, help me out here. |
| 0:49.5 | Turtle? |
| 0:51.4 | Come on. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm the star here. |
| 0:57.9 | What are we talking about? Oh, you're the star? Oh, okay. What we will talk about today? We are going to talk about the real star, Alex Ovesekin, and his 1,000th game. We will hear from |
| 1:03.9 | the Great Eight himself, Barry Trots, and even Ted Leonis on Ovechkin's incredible tenure here in |
| 1:10.4 | Washington. |
| 1:13.2 | Here's what we won't talk about. |
| 1:15.5 | This will be a goalie-free podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | It is the biggest question surrounding the caps, |
| 1:21.9 | which is why we keep writing and talking about it and why you keep asking about it. |
| 1:26.0 | But today, we are going to take a break and focus just on the Great Eight and yet another career milestone. |
| 1:29.6 | Ovechkin is now the only player to ever play for the Capitals for 1,000 games. |
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