EMERGENCY PODCAST: Trade for Nick Jensen
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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The Caps make another trade, this time acquiring defenseman Nick Jensen from Detroit while also trading away Madison Bowey. Rob & Alan react to the deal, let you know what Jensen will bring to Washington, and why they immediately signed him to a 4 year deal.
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| 0:00.0 | SCORE! |
| 0:02.0 | Alex Ovechkin, still going strong, overpowering at 600. |
| 0:10.0 | SCORM IS tied it. |
| 0:14.0 | Cuttley fire, rebound, doorstep, it's in! |
| 0:18.0 | Save Bade by Braden, hold me. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh my! |
| 0:24.5 | As Alex Chuck was robbed, |
| 0:28.1 | the Washington Capitals by the 2018 Stanley Cup champions. |
| 0:32.8 | Well, for the second time in two days, |
| 0:35.7 | we need to sound the alarm. |
| 0:40.6 | An emergency podcast of the Caps make another trade. |
| 0:45.1 | Rob Carlin, Alan May, to break down what this one means. |
| 0:49.0 | And Alan, stop me if you've heard this one before. |
| 0:52.1 | The Caps go and sign a guy in his late 20s, into the prime |
| 0:57.6 | years of the defenseman in the NHL who wasn't getting a shot because the team he's coming from |
| 1:02.1 | wants to get younger. Sounds an awful I like a lot like Michael Kempi from last year. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah, it is very, very similar with the exception of that, you know, |
| 1:11.5 | everyone knew what Nick Jensen could do by this point. You know, he spent over three seasons |
| 1:16.4 | with Detroit and the NHL and, you know, and he was a regular player. He was in their, you know, |
| 1:21.0 | top four rotation, you know, big part of their penalty killers. Michael Kempney was being |
| 1:25.4 | airlifted in and out of the lineup at all times. And we never got to know who he really was until, you know, he was part of John Carlson on a few weeks, two, three weeks into them being paired together. All of a sudden, he had this dynamic duo that went on to win the Stanley Cup and it got him, Michael Kempney, a long-term contract. Today, as this unfolded, it was the perfect trade, |
| 1:45.5 | a perfect fit for the caps to add a right-handed defenseman that can play in your top four. |
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