Game 25: 7th Straight Win: Backstrom Hat-trick But Wilson Match Penalty
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
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🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The guys react to a busy evening in D.C. where the streaking Capitals take care of New Jersey 6-3. They start by breaking down the 2nd period penalty that saw Tom Wilson get ejected for a match penalty. Will he be suspended? Should he have been penalized? Will it be rescinded? Alan has strong thoughts on the subject.
Then they dive into the team's response in protecting the lead after Wilson left the game and killed the penalty. Plus, Nicklas Backstrom records his 2nd career hat-trick and Braden Holtby has another great game in net.
Oh and by the way, Evgeny Kuznetsov returned to the ice.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, there's certainly a lot to get to as the Capitals beat the devil. |
| 0:03.1 | Six to three. |
| 0:04.2 | Alan May, let's start with Nicholas Baxter. |
| 0:07.2 | Mr. Casual, three goals and an assist gets up to nine goals for his team. |
| 0:11.1 | He's now got 32 points. |
| 0:13.5 | Absolutely amazing by doing it so casually. |
| 0:16.6 | This guy just ceases to amaze me how responsible he is defensively, |
| 0:21.3 | and now he's calling his own number on the power play, |
| 0:24.6 | just leading this team in a manner that we've never seen out of him before. |
| 0:28.8 | His greatness has always been there, but what we're seeing right now, I think, is epic. |
| 0:33.2 | When you say casual, you mean casual dominance, |
| 0:36.1 | because that's what Nicholas Baxter does right now with a four-point night, including his second career hat trick. |
| 0:42.3 | Ryan Billy, in a night when the Capp scores six goals, we can also say Braden Hope he might |
| 0:47.6 | have just stolen this one. |
| 0:48.8 | I say he was pretty epic in the second period, especially. |
| 0:52.5 | I think he stopped 1,300 different breakaways in that period, |
| 0:56.1 | which was pretty impressive. It's amazing that the devils didn't score in any of them, and had they, |
| 1:01.4 | there would have been a totally different game. There's a million storylines of this game, |
| 1:04.3 | but he deserves a lot of credit for this win. The biggest storyline is Tom Wilson, and we will |
| 1:09.7 | get to that, and we will hear Alan May's comments the |
| 1:13.2 | caps win there's seven straight I'm Rob Carlin this is the capitals talk podcast and it starts now |
| 1:19.1 | there's a penalty call coming up it's against Washington three breakaway saves for |
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