CAPITALS TALK EMERGENCY POD - NHL Announces Return to Play Plan
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Some good news for Caps and hockey fans -- The NHL announced a 'Return To Play' plan once it is deemed safe to resume on-ice action. Rob Carlin is joined by play-by-play voice Joe Beninati and NBCSW Caps Insider JJ Regan to discuss what it all means for the Caps. From the 24 team playoff format - to what the end of the regular season means in terms of individual accolades for Alex Ovechkin and John Carlson - and whether the time off can help Washington in their chase for the Stanley Cup, the guys break down the latest news.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we don't really know much, but we do know something that the NHL is trying to return to the ice at some point this summer and finish this season, as Gary Bettman makes his announcement live on NBCSN. |
| 0:19.0 | And Joe Beninati, your initial thoughts as to the NHL's credit, they work |
| 0:26.6 | diligently and quickly to be the first sport to announce they plan on coming back. What'd you |
| 0:32.7 | think? I'm going to do my best, Rob, to be an optimist. At the same time, I'm going to be a realist, |
| 0:39.1 | but I want to be optimistic, and I want hockey fans and Capitals fans to be optimistic about |
| 0:45.6 | what's ahead. We've been starving collectively as a country, as a world, for professional |
| 0:52.0 | sports, for sports of any kind to return and for us to enjoy them. |
| 0:56.7 | So please be optimistic about this tournament. Let's pray that we can get it done safely. |
| 1:02.2 | And don't give me any of this BS about an asterisk. It's the toughest tournament to win in |
| 1:07.1 | sports. It just so happens that COVID-19 happened this year and it interrupted the 2019-20 |
| 1:13.2 | season. But if the NHL can figure it out and the Players Association can figure it out to do it |
| 1:18.3 | safely and cooperatively, I think we should have all the enthusiasm for it. Absolutely. It might |
| 1:26.0 | feel like a new season, but this is the finish of the old season. |
| 1:29.3 | That's the optimist that is Joe B. On the other end of the spectrum, there's J.J. Regan. |
| 1:34.5 | Hi, J.J. |
| 1:37.3 | Your initial thought when you first heard Betman's announcement? |
| 1:44.2 | So not too much news. I think most of this was pretty much well known at this point, |
| 1:50.0 | or had at least been been speculated at this point. So there's not too much news. I think |
| 1:55.9 | it's just another step in the right direction towards returning. The league is definitely |
| 2:00.4 | working towards returning. So league is definitely working towards |
| 2:01.6 | returning. So all the talk that I've seen about, well, why don't they just cancel the season |
| 2:05.4 | already? They're not going to do that unless they absolutely have to and they run out of time. |
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