This is Joe Beninati.

You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast.

Here's your host, J.J. Regan.

Thank you, Joe. Welcome in to another edition of NBC Sports

Washington's Capitals Faceop podcast, the second round podcast, the first podcast of the second round,

and that feels so good to say, considering we very easily could be saying the first podcast

of the offseason. Ye of little faiths. I knew they were going to punch through. I'm very pleased. I, of course, am your host, the capitalist correspondent, JJ Regan. With me today, he is the capitalist insider. He is the MySpace to my Facebook. He was Tark Elbashir. Tark. MySpace was, I mean, that was my thing early on, man.

I mean, that was, that's how I connected with my buddies.

I mean, Facebook, Facebook's a disaster right now.

So if you want to be Facebook, go ahead, man.

You know, get used to being called in front of Congress to give testimony.

What we will talk about today, we are going to wrap up the first round series

against Columbus and dive into the rematch against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Tark, for just

the second time of franchise history, the Capitol's overcame a 02 series deficit, and for the

second time in franchise history, they won four straight games to win a series.

How were the cast able to turn things around against Columbus?

Well, if you go back and you look at those first two games, it's not like they lost 5'2 and 4 to 1.

It wasn't like Columbus handed their butts to them.

I mean, it was, they were both very closely contested games that, you know, ended in overtime, obviously. I think that what happened was two things. They got the goaltending that they needed from Braden Holpey, which also allowed them to get the penalty killing that they needed. They stopped taking, for the most part, unnecessary stupid penalties.

There still were a few.

They're still taking too many.

That said, they cut down on them.

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