Letters to Santa
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
People don't send letters to Santa anymore, they send them to the Capitals Faceoff Podcast. JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir answer fan questions plus touch on the Caps reclaiming Nathan Walker and the return of T.J. Oshie from injury.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. |
| 0:13.0 | You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Here he is. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceoff podcast. The Christmas edition. The holiday edition, Tariq, are you excited? You pumped? How many Tarek Elbashir's do you know that get excited about Christmas? I am, of course, your host. You're just going to gloss over that. I'm going right past that. And, of course, your host. |
| 0:38.0 | You're just going to gloss over that. Going right past that. I'm, of course, your host, the capitalist correspondent, JJ Regan. With me today, you heard him already. He's the capitalist insider. My wife is from Belfast, so we do celebrate Christmas. He is the Randy to my Ralphie. A little bit of Christmas humor there. No idea what that is. He is Targ Elbuchar, Tark. |
| 0:54.8 | You don't know Christmas story? |
| 0:56.1 | Nope. |
| 0:56.8 | In all your years of being married to a woman from Belfast, you don't know. Yeah, it just does not resonate with me. All right. Ralphie and who? Ralphie and Randy. Ralphie's the main character, and Randy is his little brother. |
| 1:12.0 | Ridiculous. |
| 1:15.3 | All right, what me and the Grinch will be talking about today. |
| 1:17.7 | It is a Letters to Santa episode. |
| 1:23.1 | We will talk about the return of Nathan Walker and the importance of T.J. O'Shee, but mostly, |
| 1:30.1 | we'll be answering your questions because you people came through in a big way with your letters to Santa, aka the Capital's Face Off podcast. |
| 1:35.0 | Nice. |
| 1:37.0 | Nice. |
| 1:38.3 | First off, the Capitol's lost prospect, Nathan Walker, when he was claimed off of waivers by the Edmonton Oilers, but now |
| 1:46.5 | turnabout is fair play as the caps have acquired Walker right back after the Oilers placed |
| 1:52.3 | them on waivers. Tark, help the fans make sense of what happened here and what the future |
| 1:57.5 | holds for Walker. Well, I honestly think that the Capitals thought from the get-go that if he did get |
| 2:04.9 | claimed, they were going to get him back in the organization. |
| 2:07.2 | I mean, that was kind of floated out there from the sources I spoke to right after he |
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