EMERGENCY Backup Goalie Podcast: Gavin McHale - Cap For A Day
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NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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In a must-listen, Rob talks to Wednesday night's emergency goaltender Gavin McHale. Gavin replays his whirlwind day, that started as a personal trainer and ended by taking shots off the stick of Alex Ovechkin.
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| 0:00.0 | SCORE! |
| 0:02.0 | Alex Ovechkin, still going strong, overpowering at 600. |
| 0:10.0 | SCORM! |
| 0:12.0 | Backstrom has tied it. |
| 0:14.0 | Cuttley fire, rebound, doorstep, it's in! |
| 0:18.0 | Save Bade by Braden Holby! |
| 0:22.0 | Oh my! |
| 0:30.4 | As Alex Talk was robbed, the Washington Capitals by the 2018 Stanley Cup champions. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, I figured what better way to have an emergency Capitals Talk podcast than to have an emergency backup goaltender come on with us? |
| 0:47.7 | And what a great story it was, despite the Caps lost in Winnipeg by a final score of 3 to 1, |
| 0:53.9 | Gavin McHale was dressed and ready to go if his number 41 had been called. |
| 0:54.4 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm Rob Carlin. |
| 1:01.6 | This is an emergency capitals talk podcast, and we actually have Gavin who has called in. |
| 1:07.1 | I want you to just settle a bet because in the room when we were watching the game, I don't know, there's six or seven of us in the room at the time. Most people were thinking, hell no, he doesn't want to go into this game. |
| 1:14.9 | But Alan May and me both said, absolutely, he wants in. |
| 1:19.5 | He wants something to happen to say, I played in an NHL game. |
| 1:24.3 | What was going through your head? |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah, man, like, I'm honestly, like, a lot of me was, like, pretty scared. |
| 1:33.1 | But when that empty netter went in with 59 seconds left or something, I was like, |
| 1:38.9 | come on, man. |
| 1:40.1 | Call my number. |
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