Game 1: Domination on Banner Night
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Rob and Alan react to the perfect opening night for the defending champs.
They also address the Tom Wilson suspension issued Wednesday afternoon.
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| 0:00.0 | For the first time on All-Mice, your defending Stanley Cup champion, Washington Campito! |
| 0:13.0 | Your captain and the Con-Smite winner, number eight, Alex Saugh! |
| 0:23.6 | That music sounds familiar. That is the music. They were playing inside Capitol |
| 0:36.6 | One Arena when they raised the banner to the roof. |
| 0:41.2 | And it far exceeded even my wildest expectations for the night. |
| 0:46.5 | And that was just the beginning of one of the most memorable nights in Cap's franchise history. |
| 0:51.5 | As they blank the Bruins by a final score of seven to nothing. |
| 0:55.8 | This is our first Capitals Talk podcast of the new hockey season. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm Rob Carlin with Alan May, who I have spent so much time with today talking about this team. |
| 1:05.9 | I don't know what else there is to say, but after that performance, when Cuzi had a goal, had two goals, Baxter |
| 1:12.5 | had three assists, Osi, Ovi, Carlson, all had multi-point games, Holtby had a shut |
| 1:18.8 | out at an assist. That was an absolutely perfect first night of the season. |
| 1:23.7 | Well, think of all the things we talked about today. We didn't even talk about the Boston Bruins or the hockey game against the Bruins and then the half a night like we did on the ice. Forget all the other stuff. The banner raising, Ovi skating around the cup. There's a hell of a hockey game played by the Capitals tonight. And you look at the speed, the pace, the tempo, offensively, defensively, the quality goaltending, the incredible |
| 1:44.9 | goal scoring performance, the show of skill tonight, the dominance of Kuznetsoff and Baxter |
| 1:52.9 | and Ovi and, man, it just doesn't quit. What a night. I did not expect them to kick ass and take |
| 1:59.6 | names the way they did tonight, but they put it all |
| 2:02.5 | out there, and it just keeps getting better and better. It started last April 1st, and man, |
| 2:07.0 | we've been on a roll. We've been lucky. You and I have got to see some incredible moments with |
| 2:11.4 | this hockey team, and tonight, just another incredible damn moment. It was amazing. It was |
| 2:17.1 | heartwarming. It was just. It was heartwarming. |
| 2:17.8 | It was just so emotional. |
| 2:20.2 | And I was like, I don't want the day to end, but I'm pretty much done talking. |
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