Gunther on top to Sergachev big drive coming from Caler and it's black 10 seconds to go

puck on a far wing up and out of the zone oveckin toward the empty man yes it's a hat trick for

alex ovechkin here in Utah his second hat trick of the year is first in Montreal, and here he makes it 7 to 4 with 5.2

to go and again some post whistle hostilities.

John Walton's really, really good. That was the call of the empty netter at the end last night that gave Alex Ovechkin his 34th career hat trick,

fourth most hat tricks in NHL history, and he set a league record with a hat trick against his 21st team. The caps rallied from a 3-1 first period deficit to a 7-4

win in Salt Lake City. That was the crowd cheering for Ovechkin there at the end, right? It certainly

sounded like a lot of cheering in a road environment.

The caps still kind of hanging by a thread in terms of their playoff hopes. The problem is teams

in front of them keep winning as well. But they are, right now, they are still seven points behind, six points, excuse me, behind the second wildcard team with nine games to play.

Good morning.

On a morning following a winning day yesterday.

How about the Nats going to Wrigley and beating the Cubs 10 to 4 on

opening day, despite James Wood going 0 for 5 with four strikeouts, kind of where he left off in the

second half of last year. Cade Cavali certainly wasn't great, only went three and two thirds

in his opening day start,

but the Nats get a 10 to 4 win on opening day.

They'll take today off and be back at it tomorrow at Wrigley for the second of their season opening three games set.

I was very much knee-deep in the hoops last night.

Man, those were good basketball games, especially the first two games,

the Purdue, Texas game, and the Iowa-Nabraski game,

which featured an unbelievable gaffe. I would say it was a

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