Caps + NHL Free Agency recap
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Rob Carlin and Brian McNally break down what the Caps have done in NHL free agency so far, as well as evaluating everything that's happened around the rest of the NHL. They react to the Capitals signing Richard Panik (2:10) and Brendan Leipsic (26:05), take a look at whether or not the Caps will be able to re-sign Braden Holtby and Nicklas Backstrom next offseason (16:24), predict Jakub Vrana's next contract (13:44), give their winners (30:56) and losers (50:07) in NHL free agency across the league and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | There was considerable dust, but most of the dust has cleared now from NHL Free Agency. |
| 0:05.3 | Brian McNally are the Caps a better team than they were when the season ended. |
| 0:10.1 | I think they are a different team than they were. |
| 0:12.5 | I don't necessarily know if they're better, Rob, but they made a couple of changes that will tweak how they look on the back end and the bottom six, |
| 0:19.8 | and I think that should pay some dividends for them. |
| 0:22.3 | We'll get into the Caps moves at Free Agency plus the big winners and losers around the NHL. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Rob Carlin, the Capitals Talk podcast starts now. |
| 0:32.3 | Score! |
| 0:34.2 | Alex Ovechkin, still going strong, overpowering at 600. |
| 0:40.8 | Score! |
| 0:43.3 | Backstrom has tied it. |
| 0:45.2 | Cottyly fired. |
| 0:46.2 | Rebound four steps. |
| 0:47.5 | It's in. |
| 0:48.8 | Save made by Braden Holby. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, my! |
| 0:52.9 | As Alex Chuck was robbed, the Washington Capitals are the 2018 Stanley Cup champions. |
| 1:02.0 | It's never easy to say goodbye for guys who helped win you a Stanley Cup, but that's exactly |
| 1:07.5 | what the Caps had to do. Some of it because of financial issues. |
| 1:12.5 | Some of it because the players wanted a fresh start. |
| 1:14.6 | Some of it because players had earned money and opportunities somewhere else. |
| 1:18.7 | And the caps saw all of that as they traded away Matt Niskenen to shed themselves to the contract |
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