Burning Questions Part 1
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
J.J. & Brian begin this summer's series of Capitals Burning Questions, including can Alex Ovechkin score 50 goals again in 2019-2020?
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| 0:00.0 | Scor! |
| 0:02.0 | Alex Ovechkin, still going strong, overpowering at 600. |
| 0:09.0 | Scor! |
| 0:12.0 | Backstrom has tied it. |
| 0:14.0 | Shuttle, he fired, rebound, doorstep, it's in! |
| 0:18.0 | Save Bain by Braden, hold me. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh my! |
| 0:30.4 | As Alex Talk was robbed, the Washington Capitals are the 2018 Stanley Cup champions. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of the Capitals Talk podcast. |
| 0:55.1 | I am your host for today. Capitals writer, JJ Regan, in place for Rob Carlin, who is out galvancing across the world and joining his summer with me today. He is the Kenning to Mike Cartman. He is the fellow Capitals writer Brian McNally. McNally? What's up? You ready to talk some burning questions? Yeah, let's do some burning questions. |
| 1:10.7 | We got some burning questions. These questions will determine whether or not the capitals have a successful season. We got 20 of them. We're going to do the first five this week. We got some good stuff, including Alex Oveskin, the third line, Nick Jensen, Todd Reardon, and the power play. but we're going to start off with the big man. |
| 1:11.9 | Alex Ovechkin. |
| 1:11.2 | Can Alex Ovechkin continue scoring 50 goals? |
| 1:15.6 | I don't know, JJ. That's 50 goals at his age. I mean, at a certain point, I get his teammates |
| 1:21.6 | are like, look, he's OV. Why would you question him? And I get that. But I think I've said |
| 1:27.0 | before, Father Time's undefeated. |
| 1:28.7 | At some point, 50 goals is not going to happen. |
| 1:31.5 | You can be a freak, a workout warrior. |
| 1:33.6 | You can do the full yager and go, you know, ride bikes up mountains and be like Chara and all these guys. |
| 1:41.5 | And I get, Ovechkin will keep himself in good shape. |
| 1:45.1 | But durability starts to get chipped away a little bit, |
| 1:48.0 | especially for forwards who play the game the way he does. |
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