All right, happy to be joined on the Rood Gus hotline by Spencer Carberry, Capital's Head Coach.

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Good morning, coach.

Morning, guys.

It's crazy how one week can make a difference. I feel like last week when we talked to you, you guys had marched into first place. And one like a hundred out of 101 or something. Today I looked at the standings here and fourth. What's been different this week? I saw an interesting statistic, and maybe you can talk about it, that in the last five games games I believe you guys have been out shot by 50 what's changed um I just think we're um we've

hit a little bit of a rough patch um two two difficult places to play in against two really

good teams in Winnipeg and Minnesota.

I think coming back on the West trip,

even though we win that game against Columbus, it was okay.

I think it was two nothing.

L.T. played really well.

We generated a decent amount.

Jet Graves played really well.

It didn't finish.

And you could start to feel it a little bit of now, all of a sudden, especially our forward group really starting to grip it a little bit from a finishing standpoint.

Similar to what you saw in that patch early in the year where just weren't finishing at a high rate and then it went

into the Carolina game and then on to the road

in Winnipeg and Minnesota so a little bit of adversity

just have to

he's there you're still there coach right

yeah okay I lost you for a second. This is just the, the byproduct of a long season, right? I mean, you guys won nine of ten just a couple weeks ago, and you guys were in first place in the metro, and now you go through a little lull, like you said, and now you slip to, I think, before back of whoever the leader is, I assume it's Carolina,

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