Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast presented by Commuter Connections.

Hey, welcome InCaps fans to another edition of the Capitals face-off podcast by CSN. I am your host, Capitals correspondent

JJ Regan, with me today making his podcast debut, or Capital's Face Off podcast debut. I want to

speak for your podcasting experience, but it is not Targ El-Bashir, my usual psychic assistant.

It is Rob Carlin.

Rob, thanks for joining in.

Well, these are very big shoes to fill in Tarik El-Bashir.

So I stopped and got some Taco Bell on my way in.

Ooh, there you go. So that way I'm prepared.

And, yeah, I've been on the Redskins Talk podcast, but this is my initial foray into the Caps face off, and I'm excited about it.

There you go.

Well, you certainly should be because this is by far the best podcast on CSN.

That's what you keep telling me.

Yes.

Anyway, so cast fans are a little salty, as you would expect.

Through three games with their series of the Toronto Maple Leafs, they are down two to one. So we're going to go over what we've seen, what's gone wrong. We're going to have a phoneer from Tarek al-Bashir in the second segment to tell us what's going on in Toronto, assuming I can get the phones to work, which, who knows? And then we're going to answer your questions.

I've been getting your questions all day,

and the ones that are without swears, I will read on the air.

But first, Rob, give me your initial impressions from what you saw.

You came into the room yesterday while we're watching Game 3,

and your head was down.

You're just going, what is going on?

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