EMERGENCY POD --- Caps Return to Ice Schedule released!!!
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We've all heard the term "Friday News Dump", but in this case, it's a good thing.
Along with a 4 year extension to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the NHL also released its Return to Ice schedule, so we finally know when the Caps will play their 3 round-robin games.
Rob, JJ and Brian McNally can hardly contain their giddiness as they breakdown what lies ahead for Washington. Find out why they don't want the Caps playing in the early window of games, why August 3rd will be a particularly busy day for DMV sports fans, what they hope to see from the Caps in those first 3 games, and which qualifying series matchups in the East and West intrigue them the most.
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| 0:00.0 | We have not had actual hockey breaking news since the season went on pause in the second week of Mark. |
| 0:11.5 | But there is actual breaking hockey news. |
| 0:15.7 | As we now know, it's official. |
| 0:18.1 | The season will restart. |
| 0:19.7 | The playoffs will start August 1st, the Caps first game, |
| 0:24.3 | August 3rd against the Tampa Bay Lightning, J.J. Regan, are you ready for 13 hours a day |
| 0:33.5 | of NHL playoff hockey? I'm pumped for that. I'm not sure my wife and kid are ready for that, though. |
| 0:39.4 | That should be interesting. |
| 0:40.5 | But, you know, it happens almost four months to the day that the league was paused. |
| 0:46.3 | I don't think any of us envisioned at the time this stretching this long. |
| 0:50.3 | So it is such a relief to know that there is at least a plan in place and a date on the calendar for hockey to return. Brian McNally was promoted off of the day-to-day grind of just covering the sport. You're now like a big wig, but I think, I don't know if you're supposed to get an office, but we haven't been back to the office since you potentially could have had an office. No idea. All my stuff is still there. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.9 | But we had to bring you back out of the, out of the, you know, the uppity-muck-dy-mucks |
| 1:17.9 | to talk about actual hockey. |
| 1:21.1 | And, you know, JJ and I just referred to it, but we didn't explain it. |
| 1:25.6 | There is, the three games a day in Toronto are going to start at noon, four, and eight. |
| 1:33.4 | The games in Edmonton, East Coast, East Coast time will start at two, six-thirty, and |
| 1:41.4 | 10-30. |
| 1:42.9 | So first puck drops at noon, last game starts at 1030. You texted me right |
| 1:49.9 | away. Let's go. I mean, they are jumping right in. Thanks for pulling me down into the crab |
| 1:56.0 | barrel again, by the way. This is great. Dude, this is awesome. That is a level of hockey. I think on some |
| 2:03.8 | level we knew that was happening, but to see it actually in, you know, in a schedule format, |
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