Best of Capitals on WJFK/WTEM: We’re all No. 1

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports, Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Alex Ovechkin’s 895th goal was THE story of the week in DC sports – hear from Nic Dowd, Jakob Chychrun, and head coach Spencer Carbery, as well as former Caps Peter Bondra and Olaf Kolzig and owner Ted Leonsis on the milestone! Also, we discuss whether or not Ovi is indeed the most important athlete in DC history, and close with a celebration of the Capitals clinching the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.

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0:00.5	The Capitals come home on Thursday.
0:02.6	Should be one heck of a party at Capitol 1 Arena.
0:05.9	Thursday evening.
0:07.0	Cannot wait to be there.
0:08.2	I know tens of thousands of you guys will be there as well.
0:11.2	And in the middle of it, at Center Ice, will be the owner of the operation and the CEO of Monumental Sports and Entertainment.
0:17.4	Ted Lianzis, who's kind enough to join us right now on the rude guest hotline on the day after the greatest regular season day in Caps history.
0:25.4	Ted, it's Grant and Danny.
0:26.5	Thank you for a few minutes.
0:28.2	What an accomplishment for the organization, for Alex, and for this fan base yesterday.
0:34.4	Thank you.
0:35.1	It's very nice of you, and I have to say today, everyone is exhausted and earned a day off.
0:42.5	And I think Thursday will be a wonderful day just to show gratitude to a historic player.
0:50.4	And someone who really loves the fan base and really did it for the fans.
0:55.6	It's really a spectacular time to be a Capps fan
0:59.9	and show our gratitude to Alex O'Betchkin.
1:03.6	Ted, I think people may underestimate.
1:05.6	I'd love for you to go into it.
1:06.6	Some of the preparations for this sort of traveling road show
1:09.8	as he's closing in on this record to
1:12.3	kind of make this seamless. What I thought just editorial, very classy and an excellent
1:16.6	kind of celebration of it when it happened in real time. What went into all the planning
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