Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast.

Hello everybody and welcome into another edition of the Capital's Face Off podcast.

Happy Fourth of July, everyone.

Happy holiday weekend.

I'm your host,

the Capitol's correspondent,

JJ Regan,

with me.

He is the Capitol's insider.

He is the Sancho Ponsa

to my Don Quixote.

He is Tarkalbashir.

I don't even know what to say about that.

That was one of your more creative ones. I'll give you that. I mean, I struggle with my restraint every time you, you come up with one of these intros. Because, I mean, everyone out there knows I'm the first round draft pick, and you're like the non-scholarship like walk on. Oh. What are we talking about?

So you're, so if I'm to understand that you are the bust and I am the diamond in the rock. Oh man. I wasn't ready for a comeback. All right. Let's back up. All right. You know who Sancho Panza is? And Don Quixote? I know Don Quixote. You don't know Little John from Robin Hood

And then I throw out Sancho Panza

And you're like, hey, that's a good one. I know who these literary figures are. I just think they're dumb. Okay. All right. Well, so the capitalists did not take the holiday weekend off. No. That's for sure. For a team that didn't have much money to spend on free agency, they sure made a lot of headlines this weekend. We have tons to talk about. You want to hear something funny? Sure. You know this, but the folks out there don't know this. Every Sunday night for the past, oh, 20 years, I've been getting together with a group of friends. We all ride mountain bikes. Most of us are in our 30s or 40s and are fat, but like to ride

bike still. And we meet at the trailhead around six and we go out. We have a good time. We might

have a diet Pepsi or so when we come back to the parking lot. I thought for sure I was in the clear when I got on my bike. I checked my phone one more time and I was like, yeah, something tells me something might happen, but I think I'm good for like two hours. I get halfway through the ride. I mean, I'm like in the middle of a forest.

And my eyewatch is going. My phone's buzzed and I'm like, no, you can't. You can't be serious. And everyone on the ride is a Capitals fan too. Right. So I just blurt out, Coosie just resigned and everyone kind of cheers. And they're like, well, we'll see you later. We know you got to go. and so I had to pedal so hard.

I mean,

we're at the bottom of this of this trail.

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