Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast presented by Commuter Connections.

The Capitals are moving on to the second round. It is so nice to record a podcast with something positive to say

for once. This is the Capitals Face Out podcast by CSN. I am your host, the Capitals correspondent,

J.J. Regan, with me. He is the Toronto Maple Leafs to my Washington Capitals. He is the

Capitals Insider, Tark al-Bashir. Tark. Well, JJ, I think all of them are lame, but I think that was your lamest one yet. I mean, it's better when it's obscure, like literary figures or something that I've never heard of. Obscure. You make fun of these every week. And by the way, people you've never heard of, You've never heard of people like Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes. I don't know if you can, I don't know if there's any reference that wouldn't be obscure to you at this point. I watch hockey. All right. So we are going to put a bow on the Toronto Maple Leaf series. We are going to talk preview the

Capitals Penguin series, but first I'm going to yell at Tarek because right before we got

on this podcast and began recording, Tarek said to me, by the way, Justin Bieber isn't that

bad. He's good. Oh gosh. You probably can't play that music very long. We have to pay for it. I just hope you know.

Justin Bieber does not seem like the kind of person who would let this go.

You ought to be dancing right now.

Yeah, he's dancing. Tark is actually dancing. Tark.

I think that was less than 10 seconds, so I don't think we owe him any royalties.

I don't know if you've ever said something that I'veed with more, and then your stance on Justin Bieber. I think that he is matured as an artist. His last album was pretty good. Oh, my gosh. Now, see, I was introduced to it by my 15-year-old daughter. Yes. Oh, shock. I drive around a lot. I can't wait until you get to a driver's lessons. But anyway, not terrible. I was surprised to see him. I was surprised to see him at Air Canada Center last night. And yes, I am back in Bethesda already. Don't ask me. Because I went and looked up his concert schedule. He's actually in Costa Rica tonight. So it means he got on his private jet, flew all the way to Toronto for game six, and then he's going back to Costa Rica from where he was somewhere else far flung. So he's a real Maple Leaf fan. And you know what? When I was in Los Angeles, when I was in Los Angeles for the All-Star game, the dude can play hockey, too. I walked into Staples Center. This is the most ridiculous. I walked in the Staples Center right as he was being awarded a penalty shot. And I was thinking to myself, that's Justin Bieber. He can skate. I mean, like, he's not like, you know, a professional hockey player,

but he looked to me like a guy who can play on a double A Bantam team if you were a 16-year-old player.

This is a soundproof room, and I can hear your credibility falling through the tubes.

What do you mean?

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, oh!

This is... Oh, my gosh.? Oh my gosh. Oh! This is...

Oh my gosh.

This is a new love for the podcast.

This really is.

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