This is Joe Beninati.

You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast.

Here he is.

Here's your host, J.J. Regan.

You're right now in a hard position, but it's going to find when we bounce back and

I'm going to tie the serious and come back here and play game five.

Those were the words of the captain after game two.

Not so much a guarantee as it was.

Just a statement of fact that this series would come back to Washington and it would be tied.

And Alex Ovechkin delivered on his word.

The Capitals went into Columbus and won both games, and now they're coming

back to Washington with a tie series. Welcome in to another edition of the NBC Sports

Washington's Capitalist Face Up podcast. I am, of course, your host, the Capitals correspondent,

JJ Regan with me today. He's the Capitol's insider. He is the boo-boo to my yogi. He just talked out

with cheer. All right. I actually know that reference. You know that one? I know that one.

That's the first. What we will talk about today. We're going to talk about the big game three and game four wins. We're going to look ahead to how this series may play out,

and we're going to answer some listener questions. First, Tarek, some general thoughts on the

series. I mean, what a difference two games is made. We talked after game two. We thought,

wow, this could be an early summer for us.

Things are looking dire. You lose both games at home. You said that. I was fully confident that this

is going to be a longer series. Okay. Yeah, I was. I mean, it's not like they got beat five, two,

and four to one at home. You know, there were some unfortunate penalties.

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