Welcome back to the show, Junk song 1-06-7, the fan, Team 980.

We're joined now on the Bet-QL guest hotline

by Alan May, Caps Analysts on Monumental Sports Network.

Good morning, Alan. How are you?

Hey, good morning, guys doing great.

Little happier doing post-games these days, huh?

Well, it's kind of cyclical, so it seems like it's two weeks of hell and then two weeks of kind of awesome hockey.

So hopefully this this trend ends and it just sticks to the awesome hockey because it's been a lot of fun lately

and my little broadcast partners like

bouncing off the walls when the caps have those games where they score a ton of

goals and don't as well as many in so it makes it a lot better to cover these games.

And Alan's funny you say that it's cyclical because like if you had asked me and probably

anybody else who follows the caps or watches the caps a decent amount

what would Brian McClellan be doing at the trade deadline? Two weeks ago I would have said well he's going to be a seller. He's going to sell any parts that somebody else might want that's not going to be part of the core moving forward but the

trade deadlines March 8th and there's still some time he could still be a seller

but if they continue with what they've been doing of late especially offensively

in scoring and outscoring opponents he's going to be a

buyer come the the trade deadline to try to add pieces for a playoff run I would guess.

Well I would think in the next little bit here I'd say the next two to three games determines everything

tonight there's a huge game in Detroit and they've got to win it they've got to win

that game against Philadelphia because these are two teams that they're chasing for

the wild card spot for the Flyers they're actually in one of the top three spots but

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