Karl Alzner joins to talk about the Caps bounce-back week
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
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🗓️ 20 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
After 4 straight losses sandwiched around Covid cancellations, the Caps bounced back this week with back-to-back stellar performances against Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Karl Alzner joins Nick Ashooh and JJ Regan to discuss the recent turnaround and the upcoming goaltender dilemma the Caps will face when Ilya Samsonov returns. Plus, an appearance by JJ's son, a quick interlude for some Sabres bashing, and some discussion about pond hockey and the upcoming games in Lake Tahoe (complete with a well-placed Godfather reference).
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's Capitol Stock podcast, we look at what went wrong in the four-game losing streak and then how they turned it around. |
| 0:11.1 | Ilya Samsonov on his way back. |
| 0:13.2 | The cap's odds of winning the east have now gone up. |
| 0:15.6 | Plus, we look forward to the big, tight, difficult stretch they've got coming up as well with a lot more games on the horizon. |
| 0:22.8 | Plus, Carl Olsner joins us. |
| 0:25.2 | That's next on the Capitol Stock podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | He's scores. |
| 0:33.2 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:39.0 | It's not a great. |
| 0:39.2 | It's not a desert barrage. |
| 0:41.1 | It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:50.5 | We got Carl Olsner with us. |
| 0:52.4 | J.J. Regan, as always, Nick Ashu, Capitalist Talk podcast. We spent like 20 minutes before we actually started taping this thing, talking about like Snowmageddon and Snow Adventures. And I presented the idea, guys, that what we talked about before we started this taping at this very moment to make it into the podcast. I don't know if it does. That's not up to us, but I hope it does. So it's going to be kind of like a surprise at this point. We'll find out. But if it is, that's great. We are sitting here now as we're taping this, getting ready for a weekend. I think is this the first time? I can't think of the last time the Capitals have had back-to-back games coming up, |
| 1:28.0 | because you've got the Rangers and you've got the Devils. We've got a Saturday and a Sunday |
| 1:32.1 | game coming up. And the Capitol is now one two straight after four straight losses. And this is |
| 1:37.2 | kind of that weird situation, Carl. I know we've talked about this before, like, 56 game season. |
| 1:42.6 | You got COVID protocols and game postponements. It's just going to be |
| 1:47.2 | one of those really unpredictable seasons. And it almost feels flip-flop, right? Because you have |
| 1:51.4 | the beginning of the year where they got tons of guys out of the lineup and they look great, |
| 1:54.9 | not great, but great given the circumstances is probably a better way to put it. Then they lose |
| 2:00.1 | four straight games and regulation as they're getting closer to full strength. Now they've won two straight. |
| 2:05.1 | Like I've watched a team now that looks more aggressive, team that's going after the 50, 50 |
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