Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast, presented by Commuter Connections.

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

I am your podcast host, the Capitol's correspondent

JJ Regan. With me, he's a Washington Post sports writer and co-hosts of the Crashing the Net

radio show. He's Neil Greenberg. Neil. Hi. How's it going? Neil, I'm happy to have you on because

we have something happy to talk about finally.

After game one, we thought, well, it was closer than maybe we were to want it,

but we still got this in the bag.

You know, that's the wake-up call they needed.

And then two games later, they lose, and the sky is falling.

Now, after game four, caps of one- five, four, they've retaken home ice advantage

because they come home for two games at Verizon.

They need two wins left.

Neil, what are your initial takeaways from this game four win?

It was a big win.

It was probably as close to a must-win game as you can possibly get,

it not being an elimination game.

And, you know, you got to give credit to Barry Trots for making some changes.

He tweaked the third line a little bit,

and some of his deployments were a little bit better in terms of who was on the ice against who.

And it ended up being a recipe for success.

Was it perfect? No. There's still a lot of room for improvement, but they were able to hang

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