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.

Thank you, Joe. Welcome in to another edition, a very special edition of the NBC Sports Washington's Capital's Faceoff podcast.

The Eastern Conference Champion Stanley Cup preview edition of the Capitalist Face Out podcast.

Who thought we would ever be talking about that? I am, of course, your host, the capitalist correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today. He's the capitalist insider. He's the goofy to my Mickey Mouse. He is Tark al-Bashir, Tart. I'm just shaking my head. I just got off a plane from Tampa. That always works well. I'm too tired to argue. Shaking your head silently, it always works well on the podcast.

It was lame.

Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, they finally did it.

The Capitals defeated the Buffalo Sabres and Game Six as Joe, as you know,

hit the overtime winner past Dominic Hachek and...

Oh, wait, excuse me, those are my notes from the last conference championship.

It happens so often, it's so easy to get confused.

You couldn't write back then.

What we will talk about today, obviously we will wrap up the Capseries with the Tampa Bay Lightning

and look ahead to the Stanley Cup final against the Vegas Golden Knights.

For just the second time in franchise history, the Capitals are the Eastern Conference champions and will play for the Stanley Cup.

They defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in seven games and for once there was no drama no bad luck no bad history

Ovechkin scored 62 seconds in and the caps never looked back Tark big picture

view how the capitals ultimately beat the lightning

Bradenopee very Very good defensive structure.

They finally got the bounces.

All of the above.

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