EMERGENCY POD: Season Suspended
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Rob, Brian, & J.J. react to the news that emerged Thursday afternoon that the NHL has suspended its season in light of the coronavirus. They discuss what this means for the Caps, wonder if the season could resume at some point, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, J.J. Regan, Brian McNally, we are all together here. |
| 0:09.3 | I don't even know if we should all be together here, but we are for this emergency |
| 0:12.8 | coronavirus, NHL sports shutdown podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | And no game tonight, no game for the foreseeable future. |
| 0:21.1 | It took the NHL an extra, I don't know, I guess call it 16, 17, 18 hours or so from the time that the NBA announced stunningly and suddenly and clearly without checking with Mark Cuban first because we all saw that video. |
| 0:38.2 | Yep. |
| 0:38.7 | And it took the NHL until the next day to make their decision to suspend the league. |
| 0:44.5 | And the quote that is coming out is we hope to return, which is a bit daunting. |
| 0:51.3 | Because I don't think it's bad to take a breath to try and get some |
| 0:55.1 | answers first I just don't think anyone has any answers right now so let's |
| 0:58.8 | just go through your initial reaction to the world pivoting on its axis |
| 1:04.9 | last night as the NBA made its announcement and waiting to hear the |
| 1:09.5 | inevitable the NHL making their announcement. |
| 1:12.0 | What a wild ride on Twitter. Like Twitter gets crazy sometimes. We all know, like crazy |
| 1:16.5 | stories come out. We've all seen that. But that hour of like, you know, the president talking |
| 1:23.3 | from the Oval Office and, you know, the jazz news coming out about coronavirus and |
| 1:29.2 | hitting that, like, almost a perfect storm of like president talking from the Oval Office |
| 1:35.2 | and this guy, a real pro athlete, has gotten sick. |
| 1:40.3 | And a little bit later, the NBA is shutting down. And what that means for, you know, the other leagues, the NHL, obviously following suit today. Yeah, just, just an incredible head spinning hour of news that you had to, it was almost hard to process, JJ. It was almost hard to take it all in. Like, wait, I can't stop. Spread this out a little bit. I can't take all of this at once. And, but it seems like this might be the new normal for us for a, for a given time. We don't know. What was shocking was how fast everything has happened. You know, for a while it was on a week-by-week basis, |
| 2:20.0 | and then it went to day by day, |
| 2:21.9 | and then it went very quickly to hour by hour. |
| 2:24.4 | It just updates. |
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