Now who's the underdog?
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Not many gave the Caps a chance against Tampa Bay, but Washington has jumped out to a 2-0 series lead after winning both Game 1 and Game 2 in Florida. JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir look at why the Caps have been so dominant in a series they were supposed to lose, look ahead to see how Washington can finish off the Lightning and answer some listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank you, Joe. Welcome in to another edition of NBC |
| 0:23.3 | Sports Washington's Capitals Face Out podcast. I'm, of course, your host, the Capitals correspondent |
| 0:28.7 | and J.J. Regan with me today. He is the first mate to my captain. He is the Capitol's |
| 0:34.2 | insider, Tari Elbyshire. Tark? That was quite possibly the lamest. You say that so much, it's lost all meaning. Well, so of your interest. I mean, that one right there sank to a new low. But you know what? I can't even get mad, dude. I can't get mad. Who can be mad right now? The Capitals are 2-0. They're headed for the Stanley Cup finals. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm starting to think about that dream I had about John Walton and the parade route and the float. |
| 1:02.8 | All right, maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself. |
| 1:03.5 | A little bit. |
| 1:04.4 | I'll tell you this. |
| 1:05.5 | I feel good. |
| 1:07.0 | The caps look good. |
| 1:12.1 | What we will talk about today, we are, of course, going to dive into how the caps look after two games where they took not one, but two, in Tampa, the stunning the hockey world outside of the DMV area. |
| 1:21.7 | So, Tartarik, I think a lot of people here were pretty confident after beating the Penguins. |
| 1:26.8 | I was struck when I was |
| 1:29.4 | listening to podcasts and reading previews across the hockey community, I knew Tampa would be |
| 1:34.6 | favored. I was struck by how many people were saying Tampa in five and giving the capitals |
| 1:40.6 | essentially no chance. How did the capitals come out and stun Tampa with, I think you could call the first one a blowout? |
| 1:48.0 | Not one, but two blowout wins in Tampa. |
| 1:51.4 | People are dumb. |
| 1:54.5 | People like me and you who are pundits in air quotes and experts, |
| 2:05.1 | we still can't predict the future with any certainty or accuracy. |
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