Recapping the Caps NHL Draft and previewing possible free agent targets
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On a special edition of the Caps Talk Podcast Alexa Shaw, Nick Ashooh and JJ Regan first got to sit down with Washington Captials 1st round draft pick Hendrix LaPierre to talk about being selected by the Caps, his Twitter exchange with Alex Ovechkin and how he sees himself fitting into this group of guys.
The crew also sat down with Samantha Pell from The Washington Post and Ben Raby from Caps Radio to discuss some of the teams key needs in free agency and to see if their is any truth to the worst kept secret in the NHL #LundqvistToDC.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's Capitals Talk podcast, we interviewed the first round |
| 0:08.8 | traffic for the Capitals, Hendricks LaPierre. |
| 0:11.4 | We asked him about that tweet from Alex Ovechkin. |
| 0:13.8 | He actually resurfaced a Twitter just to reply to him. |
| 0:16.7 | Also, Insight from Sam Pell of the Washington Post, ben ravey wraps it up from caps radio but also |
| 0:22.7 | of course we got j j jrigen and nick asshu i'm alexa shaw j j j will come to you free agency kicks |
| 0:28.1 | off friday at noon what are you most excited about i'm excited to see what henri lunkwes ultimately gets |
| 0:34.5 | in free agency from the capitals assuming he goes with the capitals which we all know he's going to at this point. I'm excited to see how much he gets from that because that's going to determine a lot of the moves that they can make in free agency because they're tied against the cap. They don't have much cap room. So if he can't break the bank, it's a great fit, but he can't break the bank. Otherwise, it's going to handcuff the team. So I'm also excited that we were able to talk to Ben Ravy without getting |
| 0:58.5 | his awful, awful playoff format, which he usually loves promoting in these situations. So I'm excited |
| 1:05.3 | about that. I want the Lung-Quist thing to happen, and I'm excited about that, just so we can |
| 1:09.6 | move on from that and start |
| 1:10.8 | speculating on Obie's contract next because remember once this is all done, Alex Lvechkin's extension is the next thing we get to talk about. So once the big name and Lungwist is done, let's bring him in. Then we can move on to spending a year talking about Alex Ovechkin's contract. Lundquist, the worst kept secret. |
| 1:26.6 | Hopefully that comes true for us and for many fans. |
| 1:29.2 | We're looking forward to that. |
| 1:30.8 | There's your little preview. about Alex Ovechkin's contract. Lundquist, the worst kept secret. Hopefully that comes true for us and for many fans. |
| 1:29.2 | We're looking forward to that. |
| 1:30.8 | There's your little preview. |
| 1:31.9 | Your Capitals Talk podcast starts right now. |
| 1:36.5 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 1:41.7 | It's not a dream. |
| 1:41.8 | It's not a desert barrage. |
| 1:43.7 | It's Lord Stanley.. It's not a desert barrage. It's Lord Stanley and he is coming to Washington. |
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