Playoff preview as Caps head into a 1st round battle vs the Islanders
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
With a 2-1 victory over Boston in their final game of the Round Robin stage, Washington earned the 3rd seed and a 1st round match-up against the New York Islanders. Jordan Giorgio and JJ Regan got together to discuss what they saw from the Caps during the Round Robin stage, and what they expect to see in the first round against New York. Following their discussion we hear from head coach Todd Rierden who gave an update on the John Carlson injury and Lars Eller's availability headed into Round 1. Finally, we couldn't go without mentioning the irony of Tom Wilson scoring a goal against David Pastrnak after Pastrnak put out a tweet calling Wilson "the best goal scorer in the league" a few weeks back...
Guess he was on to something...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, things are starting to heat up as the capitals continue their recent dominance over the Boston Bruins with their first and only round Robin win by a score of two to one. It is going to be a hell of a first round series as the caps become the number three seed in the east and get set to face the |
| 0:22.1 | New York Islanders. We know these two teams know each other very well. We'll get into what |
| 0:27.1 | to expect. But first, we have to recap what was a much needed momentum builder. As Alex |
| 0:32.7 | Ovechkin actually said following the game, JJ, it was so important for this team to get a win to feel back into that winning mode. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, you know, what a difference a game makes. |
| 0:43.6 | Heading into this game, they were winless in the round robin. |
| 0:47.5 | They played badly against Philadelphia. |
| 0:49.5 | You lose this one. |
| 0:50.3 | You get a really bad matchup against Carolina who beat you last year. |
| 1:04.3 | And now they win and it's, okay, you're playing the Islanders, which is a better matchup, you get a win, you feel better about yourself, and then you look back and go, well, you know, the Tampa Bay game was basically a tie. |
| 1:07.7 | You lost in the shootout, and they were probably the better team for most of that game. |
| 1:14.1 | So it's definitely a different, a change in perception from one win over going winless. Well, we have our hands full because there is a lot to get to us. Braden Holphe was the clear |
| 1:19.4 | best player for the Washington Capitals throughout, in my opinion, the entire round Robin. We'll |
| 1:24.2 | discuss the improved defensive play and what to expect as the Caps |
| 1:28.5 | base Barry Trots' Islanders in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Hold on tight. I'm |
| 1:34.1 | Jordan Giorgio. The Capitals Talk podcast starts right now. |
| 1:37.1 | It's a spectacular history making continues. It's not a dream. It's not a Debron Mirage. |
| 1:46.0 | It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. |
| 1:52.0 | JJ, listen, we're wasting no time. |
| 1:56.0 | I want to go from start to finish with this Caps team |
| 1:59.0 | as they played, in my my opinion majority of a lame |
| 2:04.4 | performance until the last 40. We'll hear you out in a second, but like first off, it was good |
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