Shut out, shut out, shut out for Phoenix Copley.

Alan, what a tremendous performance from the guy from the North Pole to get a win on the final game before the Christmas break.

You know, he was exceptional once again.

He has been every single game that he's actually gotten in there.

He's put on a clinic. So he's 8- 2 and 1 now uh i don't know where the save percentage and the the goals against

averages i'm not that good at that type of math but anyways the biggest thing tonight 35 saves a lot

of big ones uh that guy just competes so hard i love i love how he gets around the net and he gave the team a chance

because early on mike mckenna was really good for ottawa and phoenix cobbly gave the caps a chance

which he does really every single time out other than that ryan billy that was about uninspiring a

dominating four nothing win that was just such a clear case of, well, the Caps have all these superstars, and Ottawa doesn't. Would you call that sleepy? That was a sleepy shutout. Whatever. It's the holiday time. Man, they were just trying to get, maybe they were just trying to get to Christmas. But yeah, that was sleepy, and we'll take it.

Two points.

Absolutely.

They go into the Christmas break in first place in the Metropolitan Division,

no matter what the Columbus Blue Jackets do in their Sunday matinee game against the Devils.

They win for nothing.

I'm Rob Carlin.

The Capitals Talk podcast starts now.

That's our next big of a great-sand-a-thich. Chance of Phoenix is there.

It's just one in the last seven and it comes down to sometimes go-intending. Here's the flurry.

That's one, two, three is going to come right here in a spinorama.

So Alan, Billy called it a sleepy 4-0 dominant performance. I mean, it's kind of a word for it. That's his way of saying boring. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty much the second. Well, you know, the Caps did, they did what they had to do. they kind of bored the hell out of the senators, took advantage of them when they had to and could, scored four goals.

They did what they had to do. They kind of bored the hell out of the senators, took advantage of them when they had to and could, scored four goals. They did what they had to. Last year, the last game before the break, they played in Las Vegas. It was 3-0. They lost 3-0, but it's 3-0 in 10 minutes. And then they had that long flight back. It was kind of miserable. They had a game the night before that they lost against the coyotes that they blew in the last minute of the third period. Then they lost it over time.

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