This is Joe Beninati.

You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceoff podcast.

Here's your host, J.J. Regan.

Thank you, Joe. Welcome in to another edition of NBC Sports

Washington's Capitals Face Off podcast. I am, of course, your host, the Capitol's correspondent,

J.J. Regan, with me today. He's the Capitol's insider. He's the Stevie to Mike Kenny Powers.

He's Tarke Hel help sure. Tark.

You know, the capitals and your intros are trending in opposite direction. The capitals are getting better.

They've won five in a row overall, ten or ten in a row on F Street. And your intros are getting weaker and they're starting to hit a, they've hit the skids,

and they're dangerously close to missing the playoffs.

I think that any eastbound and down fans would strongly disagree with that.

I saw a couple of those episodes, and it was funny, I just could never,

I could never fully invest myself in the show, but the few that I saw, it was quality program.

Vice principals as well, also a very good show. But I'm a big Danny McBride fan. That's my kind of humor.

Anyway, we're going to talk about some hockey, actually, today. What we will talk about, we're going to talk about.

That's what's up. We're going to talk. Let's do that hockey. We're going to talk about some hockey actually today. What we will talk about, we're going to talk about.

Let's do that hockey.

We're going to talk about the struggles of Andre Berkowski.

We're going to talk about why the caps may have passed on Cody Franzen,

and we will open up the mailbag, which we did not have time to get into last week.

First, a quick note on the All-Star teams.

We are recording this before the rosters were announced because Mr. Capul's Insider has a busy schedule. And so that's...

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