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Coach. That's my bad. I'm sitting there at lunch and just waiting for him to pick up.

Hey, coach, sorry, that's my bad, buddy. No, you're good. How are you guys doing guys doing hey we're doing okay well um you know what

let's let's switch it a little bit what did you like about last night's game um i i thought our

power play we get two goals on the power play which um was huge we'd struggled of late

coming out of the break so i I thought that was a bright spot.

I think our push in the third period to sort of get that game within one and then have multiple

opportunities to tie it up. Six on five did a real good job. We had some good opportunities

to get that thing tied.

So those were a couple of positives from last night. Coach, Carves, I guess you'd also like your leaders, like Pierre-Luc Dubois, you know, being Frank post-game. I mean, some of his quotes were pretty direct. He said, this time of the year, we can't afford to have a bad first period. Nobody's dumb in here. Nobody's stupid. We all know we could talk about urgency.

We were trying.

I just thought that there was a little... we can't afford to have a bad first period. Nobody's dumb in here. Nobody's stupid. We all know we can talk about urgency.

We were trying.

I just thought that there was a little disconnect there in the first.

And I know that's something that you've talked about as well, not just from this game,

but slow starts have been an issue for this Washington Capitals team at times, at least recently.

Would you concur?

I would to a certain extent. I think it's, you know, especially as you reflect, like you want to put everything in one

category and say, well, that's been the most common trend.

But I don't necessarily agree with that.

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