EMERGENCY POD: Henrik Lundqvist will not play in the 2021 season due to a heart condition
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Well, this is not the news we were hoping for from the Capitals today but it's the news we've got: Henrik Lundqvist will not play in the 2021 season due to a heart condition. We're all hoping that The King gets well soon.
But what next for the Capitals? Nick Ashooh and JJ Regan take a look back at Hank's career before Brent Johnson joins JJ to discuss options for Ilya Samsonov's backup and if the Caps can still be considered in the running for the Stanley Cup with Samsonov as the #1.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a great! |
| 0:03.0 | It's |
| 0:05.0 | It's a great |
| 0:07.0 | history making continues. |
| 0:10.0 | It's not a dream. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not a desperate barrage. |
| 0:14.0 | It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:25.7 | An emergency caps podcast, sound the alarm. |
| 0:30.3 | It's not good breaking news, but it is breaking news that everybody's talking about right now. |
| 0:33.9 | Henrik Lonequist, not going to play for the Capitals this year. |
| 0:35.6 | He will sit up a season with a heart condition. We're also going to talk to former Capitol Brent Johnson as well. J.J. Regan and I are up next on the Capitals Talk |
| 0:40.4 | podcast. Every once in a while when you do an emergency pot, I feel like it can be breaking |
| 0:49.6 | news that's good. Unfortunately, when it comes to the Capitals and Henry Lundquist and him now not playing |
| 0:54.9 | this season, it is not good. First and foremost on this JJ Regan, it's certainly about his health, |
| 1:01.9 | and you hope that he can figure out what he needs to do to get back to just being healthy. Before we |
| 1:06.9 | start talking about anything else like playing hockey again or anything like that. This is so important that we had to do this emergency pod basically on the road. And the reason why I say that is I'm literally in the drive-thru of Chick-Balay at this moment as we're recording this, because when stuff breaks, I've been on the road for half of this day. So I'm sitting in the car. I'm not driving |
| 1:27.6 | though, JJ. I do want to add that. But this was so important that we had this that I dropped everything and used the beauty of technology to react. But I am getting chipped fillet as this goes on. So if you hear anything, that's just sort of part of how this works. What a trooper you are. I'm a team player |
| 1:43.9 | The Lankuiz news was just |
| 1:45.8 | A total punch to the gut |
| 1:47.2 | He had no idea it was coming. It wasn't, you know, we're all anticipated. I've seen the jerseys for sale. I've seen everyone. There's been debate about whether or not he could be the number one goalie over Samsonoff. Obviously, the most important thing is his health, as you said. We want to make sure he's okay and he gets better, and I think that's more important than what it means for the Capitals. But this is a Capitals podcast, so we've got to talk about what that means, and it's a punch to the gut. I've written about how signing Lunkwist saved the capital's off season because they |
| 2:18.7 | found a goalie at a good price tag. We checked all the boxes of what they wanted, a guy who could |
| 2:23.4 | mentor Samsonov, a guy who could play a high number of games and pushing for the number one starting |
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