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We're going to talk some puck now, Capitals lost last night, kind of struggling.

Tark El Bishir covers the Washington capitals for monumental

sports. Caps insider he joins us now on the Beck-QL guest hotline. Hey Tark

morning junk how you guys doing Tark what's up good hey you know what let's start with ovi because we were in a little debate and cake said that he doesn't he's he's not even really watching the caps now for for playoffs he's he's lowered his

expectations he's he's all about the ovy chase and he's not scoring goals and that's a

little premature I still think if they go on a

heater and string the other some wins that they could you know grab a wild card

spot but it's it's getting what's the saying precarious it's getting late early.

Is that the saying?

Crens

Cairbury said as much post-game last night.

He said, this is the most important stretch.

We need to start getting wins. It's playoff time right now for us I'm

paraphrasing all right but the point is yeah you you do care about ovie breaking

Kretsky's record he I have a vested in trying to

goals.

And we got into this debate and we saw some data, but you watched them far more closely

than us.

Is Ovey skating slower?

Is he shooting slower? Why isn't he scoring goals?

Yeah, I, yes. The answer is yes. I mean he's 38 years old. He does not get rank the same at the same speed or the same pace or the same bigger that he used to but we saw that last year and he scored 42 goals and he kind of slowed down the year before that and he scored 50 goals so what's

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