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Joining us right now is Spencer Carberry, head coach of the Washington Capitals,

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Good morning, guys. Happy New Year. Happy New Year's Eve. Kind of weird that the puck is dropping for you and the boys in about five hours and 27 minutes,

if my radio math is correct.

12.30 puck drop at Capitol One Arena with a matinee against the Bruins.

Yeah, this is an odd one having to start this early, but there's a few of them on the

schedule, so just adjust the preparation a little bit, but we'll be ready to go.

So Coach Carbs, you talked about the scheduling there.

Any issues for you with the scheduling for the caps coming out of the Christmas break?

With the back-to-backs

in Toronto and Detroit, then the early start today with just one day of rest between.

Is it just something that you have to adapt to because this is a schedule?

They're obviously not going to change it.

Is this something you would go to Brian McClellan and say, hey, we should talk to the league about this

because it's kind of hard for our guys to stay fresh and healthy with this sort of turnaround?

No, it's just part of the schedule.

It's an intense schedule with the Four Nations tournament,

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