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I'm Jay Zawaski, joined as always by Greg Boyson and Mario Cherabasi.

Happy Friday.

We've got a lot to get to today.

We're going to do our first sort of coaching scouting report with Tarika Al al-Bashir from the athletic he covers the

Washington capitals we'll be talking about Todd Reardon the Alex to brinket trade rumors just will not go away

so we've got to address those as well and we've got another game played in the eastern conference final

but let's start to show off with our special guest today Tariqq al-Bashir from The Athletic covers the Washington Capitals.

Tariq, thanks for taking some time out of your day to join us here on the CHGO Blackhawks

podcast.

Yeah, well, thanks for having me, guys.

Appreciate it.

So the first question I have for you, you know, is we're sort of prepping for these many

interviews we're going to be doing over the next few weeks.

Before we get into what went wrong with Todd Reardon in the Washington Capitals,

what was it about Todd Reardon when Barry Trots was not able to reach a contract extension?

What was it about Reardon that made him the Capitals guy?

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