This is Joe Beninati.

You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast.

Here he is.

Here's your host, J.J. Regan.

Dear NHL, please do not put games on the trade deadline again, and please, please do not give

the capitals a back-to-back on the trade deadline.

Sincerely, DC Media.

Boy, were those a crazy couple of days?

This is, of course, your host, the capitalist correspondent, JJ Regan.

Welcome into another edition of the NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceop podcast.

And with me today, he's the Capitol's insider.

He's the Baba Louis to my quick draw McGraw.

He is Tark Helbershire, Tark. I don't really know where to start with that. But give me some background. Who's quick draw McGraw, McGraw? It's a cartoon. I figured you would know that because it's more your generation than mine. No. Okay. Moving on. What we will talk about today, we're of course going to talk about the moves the capitalists did and did not make at the trade deadline. We're going to talk about the moves we liked and didn't like around the NHL, and we will look ahead to the stadium series game. First, a few quick notes before we get into everything. First, we will not be having a mailbag pod this week with the Trade Deadline

Stadium series going on. There was just not a good time to release an extra podcast, let

alone record one. So if you send a question in this week, don't worry. We will get to it

next week. We still have them. We're just going to wait a week before we answer all of those.

Also, someone sent me an email through the podcast about career advice.

I have had some email difficulties this week, which led to the majority of my email is getting

deleted.

What?

I know.

It's crazy.

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