Down with Pittsburgh and on to Tampa
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The reign of the Pittsburgh Penguins is over! The Capitals finally defeated the Penguins and will now advance to the Eastern Conference Final to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning. JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir wrap up Washington's series win over Pittsburgh and take a look ahead to what awaits the Caps in Tampa.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. |
| 0:13.0 | You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | Here he is. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:29.9 | And the Here he is. Here's your host, J.J. Regan. Yes, that is right. The air tastes a little bit sweeter. The grass looks a little bit greener. All feels right with the world again, and I don't think I have stopped smiling yet. |
| 0:41.3 | The Penguin's reign is over, and the Capitals are moving on to the Eastern Conference Final. |
| 0:47.7 | Welcome in to another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceout podcast. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm, of course, your host, the Capitals correspondent, JJ.J. Regan, with me today. He's the Capitals Insider. He's the Pokedy to Mike Gumbi. He's Targ Elbushir. Tart. God bless you for thinking the lameish stick in professional podcasting. It's still funny. I mean, it's corny, and it gets me to smile. |
| 1:13.1 | But man, I actually looked, you know, I don't even care anymore. The Caps beat the Penguins. I don't even |
| 1:17.6 | care anymore. I actually looked at some of our reviews on iTunes and people have put in the |
| 1:22.4 | reviews that they love the intros. What's wrong with you, people? What's wrong with you? |
| 1:28.7 | So those are not going to anyway. |
| 1:29.3 | That's true. |
| 1:34.5 | What we are going to talk about today, we will wrap up the Capitol series with the Penguins and look ahead to the Tampa Bay Lightning. |
| 1:38.5 | Tarek, the reign of terror is now over. |
| 1:41.9 | The Capitals have beaten the Penguins for the first time since 1994. |
| 1:46.2 | How did they finally get the monkey off their back? |
| 1:50.1 | Well, Braden Holpe was the better of the two goaltenders by a long stretch, I thought. |
| 1:56.4 | The big-name guys, the Alice Ovetchins, the beginning ofnetsoffs, DJ Oshy, those guys were incredible. |
| 2:05.2 | They did their job. |
| 2:07.1 | The caps got big time secondary goals from guys like Jacob Verona, et cetera. |
| 2:15.8 | I mean, it was a total team effort. |
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