Appreciating Nicklas Backstrom and Anthony Mantha's debut week with the Caps
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Short break for the Caps with a huge 3-game series with the Islanders ahead, but plenty to discuss for JJ Regan and Nick Ashooh on this week's episode. The guys discuss the recent ups and downs, including the recent injuries to Zdeno Chara and Justin Schultz, plus the immediate impact Anthony Mantha has made and what that means for Washington's postseason prospects. Nicklas Backstrom's 1000 games in a Caps sweater gets their much-deserved appreciation as well, and a look ahead to that pivotal series with the Isles.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody take a deep breath. |
| 0:07.0 | Finally, a few days off for the Capitals. |
| 0:09.0 | They need it. They need some practice time. |
| 0:11.0 | J.J. Regan and I are going to get into that. |
| 0:14.0 | Plus what we see moving forward from the Caps in their last 10 games, |
| 0:17.0 | we look back on Nick Baxter and his 1000th game. |
| 0:20.0 | And Anthony Manta, is he just going to score every single game for the Capitals? |
| 0:24.6 | J.J. Regan, Nick Ashing, the Capitals Talk podcast starts right now. |
| 0:29.9 | He scores. |
| 0:31.9 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:36.8 | It's not a dream. It's not a desperate barrage. It's Lord Stanley. His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:39.8 | It's not a different garage. It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:48.4 | Ten games left for the capitals in the regular season, |
| 0:51.8 | and JJ, if there was ever a time for a team to have some sort of break, I feel like it should be right now for this cap team. They've had a grind of a schedule the last few weeks. You're sitting here with that loss of the Sabres and I get it. I know I'm going to have to pay my penance in a minute here. And that's fine. You know, you get this loss then to Boston on top of that, a couple of injuries, which we'll get to. |
| 1:11.7 | This just feels like we knew that stretch was going to be a lot for this team, but it really just |
| 1:17.2 | is that nice round number of 10 games, have three days off, give this team a chance to kind of |
| 1:22.7 | just get their mind right again because it has been brutal for them. Yeah, well, why don't we get this out of the way |
| 1:28.3 | early on? Team Mac, our poor producer, you've given him crap all season long, the poor, long-suffering |
| 1:34.8 | Buffalo fan. The Sabres have now won six of their last 11. They beat Pittsburgh and Washington |
| 1:39.8 | last week. So come on. Let's hear it, Nick. What have you got to say to team, Mac? First off, you know, I don't apologize for anything I say. So that's not going to be what happens. But I'll say this. Team Mac, your stavors are better than what they were before. They don't need to be relegated anymore to the AHL. And yes, I said on multiple pregame shows that when that game happened and the capitals played him, |
| 2:02.1 | that was a guaranteed win. And they didn't win. But I blame the Nick Baxter ceremony. They seem |
| 2:07.8 | like they were still drunk from it. So who knows, maybe they were parting. I don't know. |
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