Crowding the blue line

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

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Washington Capitals, Hockey, Craig Laughlin, Sports News, Ice Hockey, News, Sports, Nhl, Joe Beninati

4.8 • 528 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

You can add one more name to an already crowded list of players competing to make the Caps' defense this season. JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir talk about Jyrki Jokipakka and what his PTO means for the team's competition on the blue line. Plus, more players make an early return to Kettler, what to expect from Christian Djoos and will Hurricane Irma force the team to cancel the rookie tournament? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast.
0:12.6	Hello everybody and welcome in to another edition of CSN's Capital's Face Off podcast.
0:18.4	I am your host, the capitalist correspondent, JJ Regan. With me today, he is the Capitol's Insider. He is already shaking his head in disgust for the intro. He knows that is coming. He is the Ed McMahon to my Johnny Carson. He is Tark Elbuchar. Tark. You know, I got a lot of respect for Ed McMahon. I mean, he carved out a pretty nice career for himself.
0:40.5	All right.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.5	Yeah.
0:42.9	That humming you hear behind you is not the pending apocalypse.
0:47.3	That is not a humming.
0:48.4	That is a jackhammer.
0:50.0	A literal jackhammer on the lower levels of Kettler Capital's Iceplex.
0:54.6	If you guys are coming out to training camp, you're going to hear it, and you're going to feel it.
0:58.8	We are recording at Ketler, and if you don't know the setup, we are above a mall, but the mall is no more.
1:05.4	It is just a construction site, essentially, and so they are just pounding away downstairs.
1:15.6	And so you may hear some jackhammering in the background. It's not just Tark, so please try to ignore.
1:19.6	Nope.
1:20.6	Anyway, we have tons to get to, surprisingly, because an hour ago, we were thinking,
1:25.6	what the heck are we going to talk about today?
1:28.0	And then a bunch of stuff happened, and now we have tons to get to today, including everybody's early return to Kettler, the defenseman competition that is heating up prior to the start of camp.
1:41.0	And an update on the rookie tournament, which may or may not be happening in Florida this week.
1:47.8	Yeah.
1:49.2	Let's start with the early return to training camp.
1:53.0	We already made a big deal out of Alex Ovechkin and the Russian Corps coming back last week.
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