ROUND 1 PREVIEW: Caps set for physical battle with the B's
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 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Caps are shipping off to Boston... well, at least for games 3&4. But first, the 1st round series with the Bruins opens in DC Saturday night, and JJ Regan and Nick Ashooh have many questions about how this series will play out and what the Caps need to happen to make a long playoff run. Starting with the latest on Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Samsonov, and a deep dive into Vitek Vanacek as the #1 goalie, and whose style of play will dictate the outcome.
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| 0:00.0 | It's finally here, the end of the regular season. |
| 0:07.0 | We get started for Boston, Washington, Caps Bruins. The playoffs will finally get started. |
| 0:14.0 | JJ and I have a lot of questions that we need answered, though, in that game one, and really the game two as well, in terms of who's going to be in who's going to be out the |
| 0:21.1 | goalie situation we got odds and who's going to win the cup all of this coming up next on |
| 0:26.6 | the capitals talk podcast j j reagan nick ashew it's up next His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:39.3 | It's not a desert barrage. |
| 0:42.3 | It's Lord Stanley and he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:48.3 | Honestly, if we look back on this season for the Capitals, it's one of those things where it felt |
| 0:57.1 | like a year, yet it also felt like three weeks. It was just one of those weird seasons with so |
| 1:02.4 | much going on. And as time went on, you start to look back and go, the amount of ebbs and flows |
| 1:09.2 | that the Capitals went through, it's astonishing that |
| 1:12.6 | they're in the position they're in right now. And JJ, as you and I now look back on that 56 |
| 1:17.9 | game regular season and forward to the first game of the playoffs against the Boston Bruins, |
| 1:25.2 | what is the biggest takeaway that you have from what the Capitals went through in just |
| 1:30.8 | the 56 games so far? |
| 1:33.6 | I'll go with depth and resiliency because they went through a lot of challenges this year. |
| 1:38.9 | Alex Levesh can miss more games than I believe he has in his career. |
| 1:43.6 | It's either the most or the second most than he has in his career. |
| 1:47.9 | You had guys coming in out of the lineup. |
| 1:50.4 | You had the one game against Philadelphia where by the third period, |
| 1:53.3 | their entire first unit power play was not available. |
| 1:55.9 | They were all out injured. |
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