We can't control the result, Alan.

The caps lose 63, a couple of late, empty-knit goals, make the loss look worse than it actually was.

But sign me up for seven of those in the playoffs.

Pump it right into the veins.

That was a great hockey game.

Highly entertaining, emotional right till the end of the game.

Guys that weren't normally physical for both teams were getting after it.

Tampa played a lot more physical than we've seen them in the past. We'll see how physical they are on Wednesday night.

Anthony Sorrelli is a bit of a punk. He's one of those guys who was getting under people's skin.

I think this is developing into a rivalry with plenty of hate, Billy. It's getting to that point now, and that's fun.

Anthony Sorrelli is a punk, and who knew that? He looks like a punk, and he looks kind of like a wormy dude. Like, he doesn't look, he's not a big guy, he's not, I thought for sure. Tom Wilson was going to throw him around tonight. There's always Wednesday night. Oh, there will be a Wednesday night. Wednesday night at home, round two of three

in 15 days. Unfortunately, Tampa gets a 6-3 win. I'm Rob Carlin, the Capitol's Talk podcast. Starts

now. And Tampa Bay is about to add some window dressing if they can get there at time.

That will count for Yanni Gord.

6-3 lightning.

Well, this game didn't decide anything.

There's no playoff bids that went out as a result of this.

Tampa's got the president's trophy locked up.

Caps are still battling for first place in the Metro Division. We'll get to the

playoff scenarios and whether or not this is a good playoff format, and you can go back and forth on

this with the NHL. We'll get to that in a bit. We'll hear from Stephen Stamco's who doesn't like

the way the playoffs formatted. But, you know, look, Alan, I think that as well as the caps played, you can't go into Tampa's building for a game that has been circled on the calendar by both teams and fall behind 2-0 and then fall behind 3-1 and then fall behind 4-2.

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