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The Kevin Sheehan Show, here's Kevin.

Next week's going to be a busy week with Free Agency getting underway.

Sam Monson from the 33rd team will jump on with us in a few minutes to give us his best guesses on what Washington will do in free agency.

And then after Sam, Bruce Feldman from Fox and the Athletic will jump on and talk NFL draft.

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windows. A big surprise late last night early this morning in town, and that is the Capps

defenseman John Carlson was traded to Anaheim. I'm not going to sit here and break the trade down for you.

You know me better than that. And while I could have booked a guest to do it and to talk about

Carlson, I do have two really good football guests on the show and they were already booked.

But I do know this about John Carlson. I know that this is a sad day for Caps fans.

Carlson is not only the greatest defenseman in franchise history. He was a foundational piece

to the greatest years in franchise history, which of course peaked with the Stanley Cup title

in 2018.

Only Nick Baxter assisted on more Alex Ovechkin goals than Carlson did.

Ovechkin shocked and crushed by the news, saying, quote, it's obviously a sad day, probably

the toughest day in my career, talking about personal-wise.

It sucks.

It's sad.

He's obviously the best defenseman in franchise history, a leader, an unbelievable man, and a great friend for all of us.

Closed, quote.

Tom Wilson said, quote, never foresaw a Capitals game without John Carlson in it. Today sucks. It's brutal. I'm sure there's some

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