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

Caps Trade for Ilya Kovalchuk

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

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Another emergency podcast as ahead of the trade deadline, the Caps sent a 3rd round pick to Montreal in exchange for celebrated veteran Ilya Kovalchuk. Rob, Brian, & J.J. breakdown where he fits on the roster, some other trades made across the NHL, and recap of the Caps big win on Sunday against Pittsburgh.

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0:00.0

Well, it's trade deadline day, and J.J. Regan is out at MedStar Capital's Iceplex.

0:10.4

JJ, I got a text from a buddy of mine named Kipper this morning that said, quote, are we getting an emergency F the Penguins and hello Kovie podcast today.

0:21.6

So I figured

0:23.3

how do you turn that down? Yes, we are doing an emergency

0:26.7

F the Penguins and hello Kobe podcast today.

0:30.4

JJ, you're out at the facility. What's the feeling

0:32.7

around there with a relatively big move and bringing in a guy with

0:36.4

442 career goals.

0:38.3

Yeah, well, we haven't got a chance to talk to the McLean yet.

0:41.1

I'm sure he's figuring all the last minute details out if there's anything available.

0:46.2

But everything seems really quiet.

0:48.3

I don't think anything else is coming.

0:50.6

So this, so, you know, when they trade for Connor McDavid, I'll look pretty dumb.

0:55.3

But I think they're pretty much done.

0:59.4

I like the move for Colvichuk.

1:01.6

I think they've missed guys like Brett Connolly and Andre Berkowski a little bit more than they anticipated.

1:07.6

They're not getting a whole lot of offense out of that third line.

1:12.0

So definitely, interesting pickup. And the only thing is that you wish that they would have thought about

1:18.4

this a couple weeks ago when they could have gotten them for virtually nothing. So they had to

1:24.0

give up the draft pick for it, but at least Montreal's taken half of the salary, the cap hit there on that.

1:31.0

But, you know, interesting move.

1:33.0

They needed it.

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