Ovechkin Ends Goal Drought + 2023 Year In Review

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff kicks off the show with Capitals Insider Tarik El-Bashir as they break down Alexander Ovechkin finally ending his 14-game goal drought last night, Anthony Mantha’s improved play as of late, and if the team is still actively shopping the forward. Then, Sportsnet's Jason Bukala tees up the upcoming World Junior Championship by sharing how Team Canada’s goaltending stacks up against the competition, how much draft stock can be placed into the tournament, and what to expect from top names such as Macklin Celebrini, Matt Poitras, and Will Smith (18:23). Later on, Producer Matt Marchese hops aboard to look back on the top stories from the NHL season so far (50:35). The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network. So I'm not sure what I enjoyed most about that Columbus Washington game last
0:17.0	night. The Merzlichens Wilson rivalry, Ovechkin finally ending his goal scoring droughts, or the Washington Capital's
0:27.1	social media team last night, who if you didn't see it put up a glorious picture of a circle of Washington capitals players
0:35.9	taunting Elvis Mersleekins after the overtime as he made the skate of shame off the ice. Ouch. Hockey's changed folks.
0:46.0	Tara Kalbeshir, no stranger to these parts.
0:48.8	Caps Insight or a monumental sports network joins me now.
0:51.7	Derek, how are you today?
0:53.4	Doing great.
0:55.0	What a game, huh?
0:57.1	What a fit?
0:58.1	But it wasn't just the game though.
1:01.0	Like it was, it was kind of so much more like let me let me start by let's do this let's
1:07.2	start at the end and go backwards the social media post at Washington Capital's Twitter X feed with the the circle of players
1:19.0	Taunting Merz Likens as he went out and just a little bit off to the right there. You saw Tom Wilson and you saw
1:25.2	Alexander Ovechkin about to say something that we all believe started with an F and ended with a
1:30.9	CK and everyone's free to buy a vowel in the middle there.
1:34.0	What did you make of that one?
1:36.0	So I've been covering this team for about 20 years.
1:40.0	I've been following hockey for even longer and I'm just a big fan and a big
1:45.2	consumer of sports news and I love looking at pictures one of my favorite things to do
1:49.0	when I was a kid was when Sports Illustrated showed up in my mailbox.
1:52.8	I would look at the pictures before I read the world.
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