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Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin

Breaking Down the Todd Reirden Press Conference

Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin

NBC Sports Washington

Washington Capitals, Hockey, Craig Laughlin, Sports News, Ice Hockey, News, Sports, Nhl, Joe Beninati

4.8528 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Rob Carlin and JJ Regan are joined by Ben Raby from the Washington Capitals Radio Network to break down Todd Reirden's Monday media availability. Reirden talked about the state of the team as they await more information on the start of the season. There was some notable news -- including who will be the #1 goaltender when the season resumes, and whether Caps fans will see one of the top prospects in the organization when the puck drops again.

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0:00.0

I don't know how much news we actually got out of Todd Reardon's Zoom press conference,

0:09.3

but we did find out that the coach is willing to, quote, adapt, and adjust.

0:14.5

Because he said that a number of times, and I really can't blame him.

0:17.9

J.J. Regan joins us here.

0:19.6

JJ, I can't blame him for not really knowing what his plan is because no one really knows the plan yet. Yeah, he doesn't know. I don't know. You don't know. Oveshkin doesn't know. Bettenen doesn't know. Nobody knows what the plan is. And that must be killing Todd Rarian, who loves a good plan. But if we did get,

0:38.3

we did get one bit of the news is that Brain Holpies is the number one and it's his job to lose.

0:44.0

So Twitter, do your thing. I'm sure I'll get lots of questions about that in the coming days.

0:51.0

Yeah, Ben Reby's also here from Calf's Radio, and that was interesting, actually.

0:55.3

As long as JJ led to that, we'll hear the entire press conference coming up.

1:00.0

But the fact that Todd said it's Holpe's job to lose, I was like, well, right, hasn't it

1:08.3

been?

1:08.7

Like, it was just a weird wording.

1:10.5

I don't think he was saying

1:12.0

anything more than there. Just weird wording the way he put it. Yeah, well, look, as well,

1:16.0

if you keep in mind, it's almost like an NFL situation here where there's so much time

1:21.1

between now and when they'll actually hit the ice, there's the inevitability for podcasts like

1:27.4

this one where there could be

1:28.5

storylines and looking to draw debate and perhaps Todd Reardon trying to get ahead of that one

1:33.8

saying there is no debate here and, you know, assuring everyone, the fan base, etc., that

1:38.5

Brayden Holpe is the guy and I think it'll still be interesting. J.J. asked later in the Zoom

1:43.6

press conference,

1:44.9

you know,

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