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guest hotline.

Covers the Caps for the Monumental Sports Network.

It's Tark El Bashir. Hey Tark.

Hey, buddy, sorry. Took me a second there to get you.

Tark. Hey man, how are you?

Yeah, good morning. Fantastic. So, uh, tough series obviously, you know, I think,

realistically you got to go in on your big dogs, um, hoping it wasn't going to go the route of the sweep but after the first

two it certainly didn't look good what when did you realize a sweep was kind of

of like in play here.

Honestly, I didn't think it was going to happen until probably midway through

game four yesterday's game.

Really? Swips are just hard. I mean just look around the league. I mean the

cast are the only team that's been swept so far. I mean you just go back in history a little

bit too. The capitals have only the last time they were swept by a team was 2011 I remember covering that

series really well second round against Tampa Bay so that was what 13 years

ago and the caps have never swept an opponent in a seven game series in their

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