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

Brian MacLellan Conference Call Recap

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

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Caps GM Brian MacLellan spoke with the media on Monday to update what he could regarding the team and the NHL season. Rob, Brian, & J.J. dive into his answers as MacLellan navigates through this unprecedented time in modern hockey.

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0:00.0

Well, for the first time, in a long time, we actually got to talk hockey because the

0:09.6

Capitals made general manager Brian McClellan available on a conference call. Mac is actually

0:14.6

in Minnesota with his family. He went to go see his daughters and his grandkids and as he

0:20.0

said, quote,

0:26.1

trying to get through this together as we all are. But JJ Regan, I don't know,

0:36.2

it was probably about a 15, 20 minute conference call. For me, JJ, the big takeaway was just the uncertainty. He a couple of times said, if we can get a season in. I mean,

0:41.1

he doesn't know at this point. Any of us, we have no idea what the future holds. But JJ,

0:45.4

what was your big takeaway from Max's conference call? Well, the first thing is that none of the

0:51.7

players are showing any signs or symptoms of coronavirus, which I think

0:55.6

was notable because they were in the locker room at Madison Square Garden, less than 24 hours

1:00.2

after Rudy O'Barre and the Jazz left. So I thought that was notable. It looks like they avoided

1:04.2

anything there. And yeah, the fluidity of the season and of the off season, it's just, he's got

1:10.3

some ideas of what he wants to do,

1:12.0

but he has no idea of what's going to happen or where everything is going. And he's just

1:17.4

pretty much in the dark as the rest of us. It's, it's crazy that, you know, there are so many

1:22.9

times where these people, general managers and teams and coaches know more than we do about these situations

1:29.2

and he's just sitting there telling us I don't know what's going to happen here's what I'd like

1:33.7

to see happen but I ultimately don't know so it's striking that we're you know two weeks into this

1:40.0

pause and it seems like they were no closer to getting a resolution there yeah Yeah, Brian McNally, it is day-to-hour, hour-to-hour like everyone else.

1:48.9

And Mac is trying to figure this out.

1:50.4

But what's your big takeaway from this?

1:52.9

Yeah, I mean, I guess first, Rob, just that everybody is healthy, that they're checking

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