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Thank you, Joe.

Welcome into another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceop podcast. I am the one and only, the capitalist correspondent. Your host, J.J. Regan, with me today. He is the Capitol's insider. He is the Oates to My Hall. He is Targ Elbuchar, Tark. Lame. Haven't we already covered this? Like, literally haven't... Did we just cover this in like our last episode? It's time for a new shake, man. I will accept suggestions. Was Hall the one that could dance or was Oates the one they could... One of them had like good... The one that I called you was the less talented one oh okay i'm not

sure how you determine that but uh by popular decision of course anyway it is the mailback pod

meaning that you the listener get to the side today's topics today you want to know all about the cap's

goalie situation plus f kenning kuznetsoff, J. Beagle, and more. Let's start with Lisa Desabre, who writes, let me start off by saying, I haven't missed a podcast, and have you stopped doing your Facebook Q&A? Yeah, we haven't done that really this year. Yeah, we haven't done a lot of those. Maybe we'll start them back up in the playoffs. Maybe in the playoffs. I mean, what's happened is this podcast and all the extra social stuff we've done is just kind of eating up the time that we used to do, that we used to use to do those Facebook lives. It's become hard for us to schedule these things. It's like literally just become we're out of time.

We would love to do them, but it's hard to get the time.

So maybe in the playoffs, but we will see on to her question.

Why is there so much bantering in headlines that read goalie controversy with regards to Holpe and Grubeauer?

Isn't Grube doing exactly what a backup goalie does?

Take over for injuries and struggles

people need to sit back and let them do their jobs they were paid to do and stop stirring the pot

Lisa I hear what you're saying but I don't think we're stirring the pot I mean could you imagine

this is growing on in Montreal or Toronto or someplace like that where there were 30

reporters asking these questions and there were tabloids and it'd be a lot worse. Listen, Lisa, I think

it's a legitimate story and I'll tell you why, because Bradenholpe has been the man here for a long

time and Philip Grubauer was at one time the seldom used backup who kind of became a more used backup

last year and had a very good year.

And what we saw from the beginning of 2018 to now was a brainholpey that we didn't

recognize all the time.

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