We'll talk about symmetry.

The day starts with Alex Ovechkin, giving his stick to a fan who will remember that and keep it for the rest of his life.

And it ends with Brayden Holby giving Phoenix Coplea Poc that he will keep and remember for the rest of his life as he earns his first ever NHL win as the capsaps close out the Western Canada portion of their road trip

with a big 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames as we welcome you to our Capitals Talk podcast for Sunday, October 28th.

I'm Rob Carlin with Smoking Al Cokin, and man, you felt terrible for Kopply.

As the caps give up a late goal to tie it, go to overtime, and we're both thinking,

don't blow this again for the kid.

It's been really good in this game, but they survived the shootout.

They give him the win.

And watching Holby give him that puck was pretty awesome.

And watching the entire team celebrate with him. It wasn't just, hey, pat him on the back and skate to the bench. It was surrounding him. The only thing it was missing was a Gatorade bucket and a shower. You know, because it looked like one of those walk-off. It looked like what they did to Max Muncie. I guess you could say Saturday morning, right?

So early, early Saturday morning.

Just little things, if you're a fan of body language, you had to love what you saw from the

Washington Capitals.

And it reminded me how much they appreciated Philip Gruber and didn't do a damn thing for him

early on last year.

This year it kind of started up the same way. You know, they appreciated Phoenix Copley all the hard work he put in as the extra goalie during the Stanley Cup run and all the extra shots he had to face and in practice, all the grunt work you had to do as that third goaltender. And then you have a situation where, okay, Phoenix, here's your first start, and we basically just phoned it in and

let New Jersey go nuts, 6-0-0, gave him nothing to work with. So, as you mentioned, a team

that owed him something, gave him something, but he earned this victory. He did just

receive it because he was the beneficiary of the other team phoning it in. Yeah, and it's not

just the 6-0 loss in New Jersey. He comes in a relief of

Pulpy after they're down 4-1 at home to Florida, and he plays great in that game. 18 saves on

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