Scor!

Alex Ovechkin, still going strong, overpowering at 600.

Scor!

Backstrom has tied it.

Cuttley fire, rebound, doorstep, it's in!

Save Bade by Braden, hold me.

Oh my!

As Alex Talk was robbed, the Washington Capitals are the 2018 Stanley Cup champions.

Hello again, Caps fans.

After a nice vacation, we are back at it on the Caps Talk podcast.

I'm Rob Carlin, here with Ryan Billy and Brian McNally as we jump into really, truly, the dog days of summer now.

Because McNally, we were joking before we came on here, I went, I did the hockey thing. I went to a lake house in Michigan and I spent

time in a lake. That is a hockey off season and you're seeing all the pictures of all the hockey

people on their lakes right now laying out and relaxing. So this is the time where even now, like the

Ryan DeZingles, the kind of B-list guys are starting the sign. these are the dogged. Not much is happening now. There's not the, the shelves are bare in the free agent grocery store. It's getting a little bit ugly. You're taking chances on guys now. You're just like, oh, man, maybe this guy can help us. But really, there's not much going on. We've got to get through.

I see your countdown every day on Twitter.

It's a little depressing, to be honest,

because it's like Demetri Orloff's number.

It's like 81 days.

The old Demetri Orlov number, yeah, yeah.

It's like 81 days until, or what are we down to 79?

79, yes.

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