Season Over, now what? Ovechkin's contract and keeping the window open
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Caps' postseason came to a sudden end and now face an uncertain future. Nick Ashooh and JJ Regan look back at what went wrong against the Bruins but then turn the page to the questions that need to be answered this offseason, starting with the expiring contract of Alex Ovechkin, the expansion draft and how the Caps try to retool their roster into a contender.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we expected to be having another podcast talking about at least more postseason games for the Capitals or maybe winning a series. |
| 0:12.0 | Instead, J.J. Regan and I will sit here and dissect what went wrong for the Capitals in their five game series, lost to the Bruins. |
| 0:21.9 | Plus what comes next? |
| 0:23.2 | We got the expansion draft. |
| 0:24.5 | We've got free agency. |
| 0:27.3 | There are a lot of decisions that team has to make. |
| 0:28.2 | And I don't know if you know this too. |
| 0:32.9 | Alex Ovechkin, his contract is a thing that has to be discussed. |
| 0:34.9 | What he had to say about that as well. |
| 0:39.7 | Coming up next, J.J. Regan, Nick Ashoe, the Capitol Stock podcast, starts right now. |
| 0:48.8 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:50.4 | It's not a dream. |
| 0:52.2 | It's not a desert barrage. It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. |
| 1:02.2 | I got to be honest, JJ, I did not think at this point in the postseason. |
| 1:06.4 | We'd already be talking about the end of the Capitol's entire season. |
| 1:10.3 | It felt like it went fast because |
| 1:12.1 | it was only 56 games, but then it felt like it went even faster because they lost to the |
| 1:15.7 | Bruins in five games. This is our time now to look back on everything that happened. And if we're |
| 1:21.7 | being honest with ourselves, there is a ton of stuff that went on with this Capitals team this |
| 1:27.0 | year. And, you know, we spent a lot of time that went on with this Capitol's team this year. |
| 1:32.4 | And, you know, we spent a lot of time on this podcast and you wrote about it a lot, too, |
| 1:39.3 | that all of the stuff that this team has overcome, the resiliency and all of the different COVID things. |
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