So many different players had tremendous games, but none bigger than Alex Ovechkin.

Alan May, he's got 19 points in a 12-game point streak.

He's 33.

25 goals and 30 games leads in the National Hockey League, and he's playing smarter than he's ever played.

And I think the beast of the burden of, you know, not winning the

Stanley Cup and losing out in the second round every year has gotten the best of them. And now

that's all gone. And this guy has just so relaxed out there, so confident, so dialed in. And the

biggest thing, I hate to say this because I think it's corny, is they're

able to enjoy and have fun every single game. He and Baxteram are completely different players

right now from where they were a year ago. Speaking of Baxter, Brian McNally, very quietly,

because that's what he does, four assists, a four-assist game for Nicholas Baxter.

Yeah, we asked him, we talked to him five minutes after the game, didn't ask him about the

assist once. You just forget, right? Like, it's just one of these things. What did you think

about OV? T.J. came back, all that stuff. It's another great night for him. Second four-point

game in, I think, the last six. He's on fire, too. So the cap star is getting it done. And T.J. O'Shee comes back into the lineup, Ryan Billy, and like that, the power play is fixed. He scored one and Kano scored one. It's exactly how we drew it up. T.J. O'Shee returns triumphantly and scores on the power play. I thought he would get a goal tonight that it got out of the power play was even better. I do have to give a hat tip to Alan May. He called it before the game. O'Sie gets one on the power play tonight. Caps win six two over Detroit. I'm Rob Carl and the Capitol's Talk podcast starts now.

Ovechkin long range, head high to pluck it in. The Caps have three in a row on the board.

Settles, score! A bob from number eight. Juice brings it this way for an Ovechkin drive.

Knock down, it trickles through, and it gets home.

Alex Ovechkin, a tip of the cap on the hat trick.

So before the game, I interviewed T.J. O'Shee, and I was like, do you sort of run out of words

to describe what you see with OV night after night?

And he was like, well, amazement's pretty much one.

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