EMERGENCY PODCAST: Matt Niskanen Traded
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The guys react to the news that the Caps dealt Matt Niskanen to Philadelphia in return for 29 year old defenceman Radko Gudas. They are joined by NBC Sports Philadelphia's Jordan Hall for more background on Gudas (14:30).
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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 fired, 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 are the 2018 Stanley Cup champions. |
| 0:37.7 | On the morning after our live taping of a Capitals Talk podcast. It is time to sound the alarms. |
| 0:45.1 | Thank you. We have to work on our alarms. Let's try that again. It's time to sound the alarm. |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, we have an emergency podcast. Welcome to the Caps Talk podcast, Rob Coral, with J.J. Regan, Brian McNally, and Ryan Billy, as we now deal with life after Matt Niskinan. |
| 1:09.9 | Joining us on this podcast will be Jordan Hall from NBC Sports Philadelphia, who has been covering the flyers for each of the four seasons that Radco Gudis played there. |
| 1:11.6 | So let's be honest. |
| 1:13.8 | I got a phone call from Billy. |
| 1:16.9 | I'm getting ready to get my girls out the door in the school this morning. |
| 1:20.8 | I get a phone call and my daughter Jordan comes running up holding the phone. |
| 1:21.8 | It's Ryan Billy. |
| 1:27.1 | And as she hands it to me, I see text messages start popping up about a trade. |
| 1:49.0 | And I was like, what? And all I, I pay up pay Billy, what's up? He goes, did you see this? What do you? This is unbelievable. So here we are. They trade Matt Niskenny. I don't really sound that way, but yeah, it was like that. It's basically like that. I mean, to me, look, I tweeted it right away. Goudis is a guy who toes the line on the other side of being a dirty player too much for my liking. |
| 1:52.9 | But we knew they were going to try and trade Niskin. |
| 1:56.9 | They flyers take on 30% of Goudis's contract. |
| 2:03.1 | So you got a serviceable NHL veteran defenseman for your third pairing now, and you save $3.5 million. I don't know what more you could have done. |
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