Finding an identity
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Capitals are a team in need of an identity...but what does that mean? JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir talk about what it means for a team to have an identity, why the Caps are in need of a new one and how far along they are in that process. Plus, they look at some of the most surprising teams from the first month of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. |
| 0:12.3 | You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capital's Face Off podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | Here he is. |
| 0:17.4 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:19.6 | Hey, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals face-off |
| 0:24.9 | podcast. I am your host, the Capitol's correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today. |
| 0:30.7 | He's the Capitals Insider. He is the Malachi to my Isaac. Little Children of the Corn |
| 0:36.3 | reference there. |
| 0:41.4 | So let me get this straight. You had an entire week to come up with something like not obscure. No, I had about, I had about five minutes because I realized that I |
| 0:47.0 | realized that I hadn't, I didn't have one yet right before we started. |
| 0:49.4 | But anyway, he is Stark Al-Bashir. I never gave you a name. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. You know, in reality, it's like you're the 13th forward to my |
| 0:55.8 | first line center. But let's go with the children of the corn. I wanted to get, I wanted to get one last |
| 1:04.0 | Halloween reference in that. All right. All right. I'll give it to you. Today on the podcast, we're |
| 1:08.8 | going to talk about identity, what it means, what it is, |
| 1:12.3 | and why it is important that caps are working so hard to find a new one. |
| 1:16.2 | And we're going to look at teams who have had surprising starts this season and ask, |
| 1:19.5 | will it last? |
| 1:20.6 | The first talk, how was your Halloween? |
| 1:23.0 | It was okay. |
| 1:25.1 | Nothing spectacular. |
| 1:27.2 | I took my son to his hockey practice and the head coach dressed. It was okay. Nothing spectacular. |
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