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The Sports Junkies

Best of Capitals on WJFK/WTEM: Ovi’s Chase is in single digits

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Alex Ovechkin is within a handful of goals of Wayne Gretzky with less than a month left – will he break the record? Hear Barry Svrluga compare Gretzky’s record logistics to Ovi’s chase, then hear BMitch & Finlay react to Monumental being able to have their own local broadcasts of national games so they have a call if the record happens! Also, defenseman Jakob Chychrun and head coach Spencer Carbery talk Ovi’s chase and Aliaksei Protas’ strong year, and Monumental’s Ethan Cadeaux looks at former Cap Darcy Kuemper pitching just the second shutout of the Caps this season.

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0:00.0

Barry Sir Luga joins us right now on the rude guest hotline. What up, Barry? How are you,

0:04.6

man? Good man. Hope you guys are doing well. We are, dude. What, um, as a guy that covers it

0:11.5

all, but understands football is king, where do you, where do you land kind of today, tomorrow,

0:17.6

Wednesday as, as NFL free agency breaks out?

0:22.6

You know, for me, and I talk about this with Dan Steinberg, my editor all the time,

0:28.1

it's like, what's the threshold to write something?

0:30.7

And it, you know, it would definitely be like the commanders trade for Miles Garrett.

0:35.1

Would it be the commanders trade for D.K. Metcalfe,

0:39.1

you know, I mean, obviously those things aren't going to happen now.

0:42.2

But that's the kind of discussion you have is like there's some sort of threshold that you know,

0:45.9

like you know what a column smells like.

0:49.8

And, you know, frankly, it wasn't releasing John Allen the other day because that was pretty,

0:57.0

you could see that one coming.

0:58.3

If it was unexpected or they landed a marquee, a marquee player, marquee piece,

1:05.1

then I think I'd sit right down and start banging something out.

1:09.4

If they trade for Hendrickson, that gets you typing, right?

1:13.9

Yeah, I think so, man.

1:15.1

I mean, it's a dynamic player at a, you know, a spot that they need dynamic players, right?

1:20.9

And, you know, it would kind of put a stake in the ground on where they think this

1:26.6

defense is going.

1:27.8

So I think that one moves the needle.

1:31.2

Jerry Brewer wrote when Debo, when they did the Debo trade, that made a lot of sense to me.

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