Episode 1: All About Alex Ovechkin
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Since 2005, Alex Ovechkin has been the face of the franchise for the Washington Capitals, and Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin have had the privilege to witness his achievements first-hand for that entire time. In this debut episode of "Told it Here!", Joe and Craig look back at those 17 years from the beginning and his dynamic first game, all of the major milestones Alex has reached, and the long road to winning the team's 1st-ever Stanley Cup. Plus, Alex himself joins the guys from the road to help celebrate Joe and Craig's 25 years together as well (24:05). If you love the Great 8, this first episode of "Told it Here!" is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Bondra hangs off. |
| 0:05.0 | Fierre to score! |
| 0:07.0 | Played by Callie O'Hanson and hold it right here. |
| 0:10.0 | That's a jock strapper. |
| 0:12.0 | The Great Aid Express pulls into third place. |
| 0:31.6 | After much speculation about when it was going to begin, what it was going to be called, it's time for the Joe Benaddonny, Craig Lachlan podcast. Told It Here, presented by Penfed. Penfed has great rates for everyone. Locker told it here. I know it's a little |
| 0:39.6 | play on words, words that you are very familiar. That's a tongue twister. I'm so used to saying |
| 0:44.9 | hold it here during my tellestrations, but I love it. Told it here is going to be a lot of fun. You |
| 0:51.9 | and I are going to have some great stories over the six different |
| 0:54.9 | episodes. We finally, we must have made it, Joe B. We've got a podcast. As a play-by-play |
| 1:02.1 | and color analysts for so long together, it's usually descriptions about the game. What's |
| 1:08.0 | happening on the ice? What's going on in the stands? What are the coaches |
| 1:11.4 | saying leading up to the game? Well, we have stories to tell that are both from the ice and from |
| 1:17.0 | behind the scenes. And I know that can be dangerous with respect to you, but it should be a whole lot |
| 1:21.7 | of fun. Behind the scenes and on the road is my specialty. You know I've got some great stories about you and I, |
| 1:29.4 | the team, a lot of our colleagues. |
| 1:31.9 | We're gonna really open it up a little bit. |
| 1:34.5 | This is an area that's not been heard before, |
| 1:38.7 | and that's what I wanna bring to told it here. |
| 1:41.6 | It's been said many of time on the air |
| 1:43.9 | on NBC Sports Washington that we are very, very lucky, |
| 1:47.5 | very fortunate to have been play-by-play in color for a Washington Capitals team that's been |
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