This is Joe Beninati. You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast.

Here he is. Here's your host, J.J. Regan.

Thank you, Joe. Welcome in, everybody, to another edition of NBC Sports, Washington's Capitals face-off podcast. I'm your host, the Capitals correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today. He is the Capitalist Insider. He's the Lane Kiffin to my Nick Sabin. Is Targal-Galbuchar, Tart? You're running out of material, man. You're going to SEC football references, although I kind of dig that one. I mean, that one was actually funny. What were you talking about? Sagan's a bad dude, man. But saving maybe the best. He's pretty good. He's pretty good at his job. Pretty good coach. And Kiffin, he's a knucklehead. Giffin's for sure, knuckle it. What we will talk about today, it's the Mailbag podcast.

You take the time that. pretty good coach. And Kiffin, he's a knucklehead. Kiffin's for sure knucklehead.

What we will talk about today, it's the mailbag podcast. You take the time to ask us questions, so we take the time to answer him this week. You wrote to us about Ovechkin's drive for next season, the cap's going overseas, NHL expansion, and more. So let's start with Amelia Byrne. She writes, no matter what opinion people have on the intros,

it's worth it just because they drive Tark insane.

Thank you, Amelia.

I used to like you, Amelia.

My biggest question for next season is how winning the cup will affect Ovi's game going forward.

Clearly, he got a great return on all the changes he made to his off-season training last year,

and now he has a burden lifted from his shoulders.

Knowing his drive, I don't expect him to just coast at this point.

What are your thoughts? I hope that this has inspired him to push himself to even greater heights.

And Rob Carlin said this a moment ago on another podcast, and we've heard Alan May say it,

winning the Stanley Cup is intoxicating.

Once you have a taste of it, you want to do it again and again and again.

And what I hope Todd Reardon is able to drive home with the core guys on this team,

the fact that Braden Holpey, Nick Bastrom,

Alzovetchkin, I mean, you look those three guys right there. And John Carlson, Matt and this,

I mean, these guys are all under contract for together for two more years. They kind of messed

around the first dozen, you know, and didn't quite get the job done. They just got their first cup.

I hope they feel like they got to get greedy here to kind of make up for lost time. They have to

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