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We welcome in our pal Tariq L. Bashir, Capital's Insider for Monumental Sports.

Good morning, Tariq. How are you?

Good morning, guys. Doing great. Hey, man. Thanks for joins us. So morning, Tark. How are you? Good morning, guys. Doing great.

Hey, man. Thanks for joining.

So yesterday, this happens to us all the time.

Like, literally, we went off the air at 9.54, and then at around 10 a.m.,

the Washington Capitals released on their Twitter that Alex Oveshkin sat down with John Walton

to discuss his plans to take time after the season to reflect and consult with his family

before determining his future this summer.

How surprised were you by that news?

Did you expect some sort of announcement before the end of the season?

What did you make of that news yesterday?

Yeah, guys, I had heard some rumblings of, you know, the fact that it was probably going to go down the way that it did.

I was looking at my phone at $9.59 because the caps typically put out news at 10 a.m.

So I was kind of waiting to see if it was going to drop that morning.

I was not sure. You know, that said, it felt to me over the past, I would say, two to three

weeks that we were heading in this direction. You know, I consistently and constantly check in

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