Well, Alan, it was the weirdest thing. At some point, early in the game, I thought that the Caps were losing two to nothing to a team that had just traded away all of its best players. Was I wrong? Or did that really happen? I told you not to eat those brownies in the sweet. But they were so good. It did get a little weird after that for a while. Yep. And then the Caps, there was a big hit by Matt and Eskin. Tom Wilson starts skating around, throwing the big body, and all of a sudden it changed the pace and the tempo of the game. I don't know how many minutes it was into the game before the Caps figured out what the Sends were doing. But once they did it, they utterly and totally dominated them the rest of the way. It was 10 minutes and 8 seconds before the caps got their first shot in the game.

By the end of the way. It was 10 minutes and 8 seconds before the Calfs got their first shot in the game.

By the end of the game, they had seven unanswered goals

to get a 7-2 win before their battle for first place Friday night

on Long Island against the Islanders.

I'm Rob Carlin.

The Capitals Talk podcast starts now.

Orla feeds it across.

Score!

Lars Eller.

Back to back.

It's 2-2.

Feeds it up top.

Carlson again.

Fires kick out by Nilsson on a change of base.

Carlson, a third try.

He scores. Booth Net third try. He scores. Who sets off fires, he scores. So for anyone who's going to open up a newspaper tomorrow or look at a notification of the final score on their phone and see the caps win 7 to 2 over this dreadful team that just traded away, Mark Stone, and Ryan to Zingle, andZingle and Matthew Shane after giving away Eric Carlson last year

they'll say okay well that that's pretty much

how that should have gone but the weird thing is

T.J. Oshy told Smoke and Al

at the end of the game on the walkoff interview

first and third maybe we throw away

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