Talking Caps offseason plan with Assistant GM Ross Mahoney
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
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4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Nick Ashooh and JJ Regan are back again for another podcast, this time the NHL season is officially over and we have crowned a champion, the Tampa Bay Lightning defeating the Dallas Stars 4-2 in the series to take home the Stanley Cup. The guys discuss what they saw from this Lightning team that lead them to a cup, how similar it was to what the Caps went through before finally breaking through in 2018 and what next season might look like now that we have gotten through the bubble experiment.
After that discussion Nick was lucky enough to be able to sit down with Capitals Assistant GM Ross Mahoney and discuss some of the plans he has for the Caps headed into a shortened yet busy offseason. The two talk about what the team saw in Peter Laviolette to bring him in as head coach, what the draft process has looked like in this socially distant world we are in and if he had any updates on an extension for Ovechkin or any signing of a net minder to sit behind Samsonov.
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| 0:00.0 | And we are officially in the off season for the NHL. |
| 0:08.1 | We have a Stanley Cup champion. |
| 0:09.3 | No, it's not the Capitals. |
| 0:10.3 | So there was, of course, something we hope for, JJ. |
| 0:12.0 | Instead, it's the Lightning for the first time. |
| 0:14.0 | It would felt like it should have been almost every year for this team. |
| 0:16.8 | A lot of similarities, but the Lightning go on and win the Stanley Cup. |
| 0:19.7 | And now it's time for the Capitals to try and get back there next year. |
| 0:24.5 | The Lightning were my preseason picked to win the Cup, so I actually got it right. |
| 0:28.5 | Never mind that I picked them, I think, each of the last three or four years to win the |
| 0:32.8 | cup because they've been that good for that long. |
| 0:35.6 | But this year, they finally got over the hump. |
| 0:38.7 | I think they learned a lot of lessons from their losses over the years. And I think one of the lessons they learned was |
| 0:43.4 | from the Capitals. You know, they won three straight against the Caps in the Eastern Conference |
| 0:48.9 | final. It was three to two in that series. The Capitals then physically manhandled them, manhandled |
| 0:54.1 | them in those two games. |
| 0:56.0 | And every time the Caps played Tampa Bay after that, it was a much more physical game. |
| 1:00.5 | And I think Tampa Bay, after that series looked at it and says, hey, we can't just win through skill alone. |
| 1:05.6 | You need to get a little bit more physical. They were really physical in this postseason. |
| 1:09.6 | And now they've got their the cup winners. |
| 1:11.6 | Does it mean more or less to win under the circumstances they had? Plus, how difficult this |
| 1:16.8 | offseason is going to be for the Capitals? We're going to talk to Caps assistant GM Ross Mahoney |
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