How do you solve a problem like Tom Wilson?
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Tom Wilson was handed a three-game suspension and now the Capitals are in a bind with no clear answer for who to put on the top line. The Caps and Penguins are tied 2-2. How will the series play out and how will the Caps survive the loss of Wilson?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | Here's your host, JJ Regan. |
| 0:21.0 | How do you solve a problem like Tom Wilson? |
| 0:24.6 | That's the song everyone at the Department of Player Safety was singing this week as Tom Wilson |
| 0:28.5 | was given a stiff three-game suspension for his hit to Zachastard Reese in game three. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome into another edition of the NBC Sports Washington Capitals face off podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | Tark is over there laughing at me. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm, of course, your host, the capitalist correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today. |
| 0:47.1 | He is the Capitol's insider. |
| 0:49.1 | He is the Mr. Hat to my Mr. Garrison. |
| 0:51.8 | He's Tariq L. Bashar, Tark. |
| 0:53.1 | I have no idea what that is in reference to. |
| 0:55.8 | That's a South Park reference, an old South Park. Okay, well, I can get into some South Park, but I didn't get that one. How about I got one for you today? Oh, okay, let's hear it. And this might hit kind of close to home. Uh-oh. you're a beat up Korean compact hoopy to my gleaming German sports sedan |
| 1:13.0 | How about that? home. Uh-oh. You're a beat-up Korean compact hoopy to my gleaming German sports sedan. |
| 1:13.4 | How about that? |
| 1:18.5 | Anyway, we are going to talk about the Tom Wilson suspension and what the caps could do now on their top line. |
| 1:29.4 | But first, because I know that's going to take most of the discussion, Tarek, give me a general |
| 1:34.5 | overview of how you think the series has gone so far. |
| 1:37.6 | Well, obviously it's tied to too right now after four games, but I think the Capitals |
| 1:42.9 | could very well be up three to one. |
| 1:47.7 | I feel like they have carried long stretches of play. I think they've been the better team in at least |
| 1:56.0 | three of the games. I think if they do not get out of this round, they will look back to me so far through four games. |
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