I know I'm not the only one who didn't see this coming, Alan.

The caps roll in fresh off one of their most convincing wins of the season, certainly in a long

time.

The ducks had lost eight of nine.

They'd lost 20 of 23.

I know there's a new coach, all that.

But to get really manhandled and a 5-2 loss was stunning to me.

It is.

But when we look back at how guys play against certain teams and where their point

totals are and then what teams point totals are against other teams, there are those

matchups, and this is one of those games where you're kind of apprehensive, you hope it

doesn't happen.

But those numbers were in the ducks were good.

But the ducks also beat the cap 6 to 5 in Capital One Arena earlier in the season. I think in late November, early December, and the Caps played an easy game that night. The Ducks played a hard game and got to the front of the net and crashed and banged. And they kind of imposed their will on the Caps that night. And I thought thought the caps, if we went back to the podcast on that one,

I thought they were lazy and soft that night.

They wanted to play a fun game. Well, they got a 5-1 in that game. It was fun for a while. Well, that's what I mean. It was soft, and things weren't going. And all of a sudden, the ducks got pissed off. they came out and they made the middle of the ice their own.

And I wanted to say something else,

but they made the caps that night,

but they dominated. They came out and they made the middle of the ice their own.

And I wanted to say something else, but they made the caps that night.

But they dominated in front of that.

If I look back, every goal was scored net front traffic and tips and rebounds and all of it.

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