Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast. Hello and welcome to another edition of the Capital's Face Off podcast. I'm Capital's Insider Tariq Elashir, and today we have a special episode of the

pod for you. Earlier, our Jill Sorenton spoke with former Capitol and brand new Las Vegas

Golden Knight, Nate Schmidt, about his reaction to being selected by Vegas in the expansion

draft, his initial conversations with George McPhee, and taking on a more prominent role,

and, of course, his emotions about leaving D.C.

So without further ado, here are Jill and Nate.

All right, Nate Schmidt, it is so great to talk to you.

I know a lot of fans already miss you.

You're headed to Vegas.

What were your emotions when you first heard the news that you were going to be selected by the Las Vegas night?

Yeah, you know, it's been a whirlwind last couple weeks, or last week and a half or so.

It's good to hear from you, Jill.

I'm not going to lie, it's just to hear familiar face.

I'm not going to hear from your voice.

You know, it's been interesting.

It was very, the whole year it was always going to be groovy, it was going to be groovy, it was going to be

groovy, and then it came down the last, you know, a couple days where it would flip-flop every day about who they were going to take, who they thought, and, you know, projections were all over the place, and finally got to a point where I just kind of shut my phone down and said, you know what

if you'll let this play out

and,

and,

uh,

you know,

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