I'm only imagining that Alex Ovechkin and Todd Reardon are saying,

let's just get this done tonight, A? Why let this go to Saturday and have Barry Trots,

bring his New York Islanders in here for one game to decide the division title?

That's at least one I'm imagining.

Yes, that is exactly what they were saying.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Caps' Game Day Live on our NBC Sports Washington Facebook Live page as well as streaming on the My Teams app.

I'm Rob Carlin with Joe Beninotti and John Walton for the penultimate game of the...

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The vocabulary word for Carla today.

Can't spell it.

I studied before I came here.

It's the Montreal Canadians tonight with a chance for the caps to wrap up their fourth straight division title,

regardless of what happens with the Islanders, who they will play on Saturday in the regular season finale. So let's start with our one big thought tonight, Joby. Let's start with you. These two teams haven't played each other in a long, long, long time. You go back to November, in fact, to find both of those games north of the border at Bell Center, which is an amazing place to watch and call a hockey game. Usually the excitement level there on a scale of one to five is about 13.

The two games the caps played there in November were high-scoring end-to-end-and-rip-roaring games.

Don't expect that tonight.

Please don't.

I don't.

I think tonight's game is going to be so much more focused upon defense.

It's going to be a low-scoring chess match, and it's just the way it is at this time of the year,

with the game being of this importance.

And I fully expect Washington to feel badly about its performance in Florida.

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