Sean McDonough will be with us at 1230. We'll talk Caps, Carolina, with the lead hockey voice on ESPN and ABC, Sean McDonough at 1230.

Joining us right now, as he does every Friday in this spot, Ben Standig from The Athletic at Ben Standing on X on Twitter.

He's got a podcast called Last Man Standing,

but you should read him on the athletic.

He's great, and he joins us right now.

So before we get to some team talk,

because I do have a couple of specific questions for you,

you know the whole schedule, you know, bit that I've been doing

for many years. So I've given my season opener and then another game during the course of the

season. Is there anything that you've kind of wanted to see? Like, we just took calls for a while

on whether or not fans want Washington to open at Philadelphia.

Taking maybe your, you know, reporter slash, you know, columnist hat off for a moment, would you like to see the season opener at Philadelphia?

I mean, I think that would be fun, sure.

I mean, not only is it a division game,

it's, you know, the Super Bowl champ gets, you know,

right that Thursday night marquee game to open the season.

So that would, you know, I would put Washington there.

And, you know, we're talking about, the opening game.

Yeah, Philadelphia is going to host that opening game. Yep. Yeah, and we've talked, you know, we're talking about, the opening game. Yeah, Philadelphia is going to host that opening game.

Yep.

Yeah, and we've talked, you know, over and over again in the last, you know, many,

several weeks and months about this, how many different ways, this is just so shocking

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