Well, Alan, I don't know if the Stanley Cup hangover has had a slow drain to get here,

but it feels like we're here after just having the life sucked out of them.

The Caps lose to the Blues for the second time in a couple of weeks.

You know what?

I don't know if I'm going to give the Stanley Cup hangover to this game.

I look at teams having to play pretty much perfect road hockey

or better games, smarter games against the defending Stanley Cup champions. And I thought the Blues

came in and executed an amazing game plan, trying to get their team to play right according to what

their roster gives them. And the Caps couldn't get anything going. So this game's about what the Blues did right, and the caps are going to have to figure out how to play against these teams who are coming in to play these defensive road battles. Ryan, Billy, kind of a different question, but either way, it was a tough game to watch. It was a tough game to watch. I agree with you on this. I'll say this. They lost on

your birthday. They lost on Alan May's birthday. The day before my birthday, which was the closest

game, they won for nothing. So it's your both. It's both of your faults. All right. It's fair

enough. It's a solid point. Either way, a clunker of a loss, 4-1, the final. I'm Rob Carlin.

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Backdoor feed to Teresenko. The shortside drive he scores. A wicked release from Vladimir

Teresenko. Look at that. Over the catching glove and pass, Wilson, the blues have a 4-to-1 league. So, Alan, I guess what I'm talking about, the Stanley Cup hangover. Ben Raby filled in for me on Game Day Live on our Facebook Live page this morning. He said... So many extra viewers, by the way, just because of the Raby. We call it the Raby effect. The Raby? Not so not true i was you say because if you want to go

like this moving forward nope you're stuck with it okay just just checking Alan rabies said that he

spoke to dan bilesma recently or maybe in the last year or so about the stanley cup hangover and

bilesma said for the penguins it wasn't october in november when we all all talked about the Stanley Cup hangover in the short summer and all that stuff, but it was when you got into this time, when the dog day is just set in for any team that you find it hard to get yourself going on a Monday night against St. Louis when you're over the actual Stanley Cup, but now you just want the playoffs to get here

that this is the time where it's hard to grind through some of these games.

You know, I'm not going to go with anything that Dan Bilesman said,

the former Pittsburgh coach,

but I look at the caps have had a game in St. Louis that the starter road trip

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