Lightning strike twice
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Capitals were in good shape against the Tampa Bay Lightning so long as they didn't allow the power play or Andrei Vasilevskiy to get out. Whoops. JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir break down the now tied Eastern Conference Final series and what will be a critical Game 5.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. |
| 0:13.2 | You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | Here he is. |
| 0:18.5 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:23.6 | Previously on the Capitals Face Off podcast. How do they overcome the Capes? So far they haven't been able to beat that trap at all. |
| 0:29.6 | I think the most obvious answer is the Capitals need to stay out of the box because Tampa Bay has still had success on their power play in this series. |
| 0:40.9 | Tari, how does Tampa turn this around? |
| 0:45.6 | Well, number one, Vasaleski has to find his game. |
| 0:46.8 | He hasn't been good. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah, they're going to need the type of performance that can single-handedly win a game for his team and then frustrate the other team because he makes 42 saves, you know, including, you know, six from point-blank range. Yep. That's one way they can do it. I would say they've got a great power play, just like capitals do. We saw the power of that, of that unit. It's good. |
| 1:14.6 | Lethal. Yeah. I think the lightning are in trouble, man. I think they're in trouble. I think short of, of Andre Vasilowski turning into Yaroslav Halak. |
| 1:22.1 | I, you know, they might be in big trouble. I think, yeah, I'm searching for ways, because Tampa is so good, but I'm searching for ways |
| 1:29.3 | that they can just beat the capitals the way both teams are playing right now. |
| 1:33.6 | It may just be those two factors, goaltending and special teams. |
| 1:41.6 | Well, what you just heard was Tarek in my conversation after game two, where we said the two things, |
| 1:48.7 | the two ways that Tampa Bay could get back into this series were goaltending and special teams. |
| 1:54.6 | Well, guess what? |
| 1:56.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome into another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capital's Faceoff podcast. I'm your host, the capitalist correspondent, JJ Regan, with me today. He's the Capitalist Insider. He's the Jared Letto Joker. It's my Heath Ledger Joker. The Capitals Insider, Tark, Elbuchar, Tark. It's 1 o'clock in the morning, JJ, on the heels of a 16-hour day, and I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. |
| 2:20.6 | Well, if it gives you any comfort, if you had a full night's rest, you probably still wouldn't know what I was talking about, knowing most of these references. |
| 2:29.3 | Anyway, Tarek, very different conversation from the last time you and I talked the capitals had a two nothing |
| 2:34.8 | series lead and now they have found themselves in a two two series tie tarc what happened |
| 2:40.5 | andre vaseleski happened the power play went cold and the penalty kill forgot how to stop penalties |
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