The Caps add two defensemen, problem solved?
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Capitals got their trade deadline started early by trading for defensemen Michal Kempny and Jakub Jerabek. Washington has been struggling of late, but do their new acquisitions address the team's weaknesses? JJ Regan and Tarik El-Bashir evaluate the two trades and talk about where they could fit into the lineup.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Beninati. |
| 0:12.5 | You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitol's face-off podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | Here he is. |
| 0:17.6 | Here's your host, J.J. Regan. |
| 0:20.1 | Thank you, Joe. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome in Cap's fans to another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceop podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm, of course, your host, the Capitals correspondent, JJ Regan. |
| 0:30.4 | With me today, he's the Capitol's insider. |
| 0:33.6 | He is the Elizabeth Swaney to my Lindsey Vaughan. |
| 0:36.7 | He's Targ Elbuchar, Tark. I'm eating my chocolate here, my bark-thens snacking chocolate. Tark, do you know who Elizabeth Swainey is? No, but I know Lindsey Vaughn. Okay. Who's Swainty? I knew you wouldn't know who this was, so I have this pot of it up for you. You're going, you have to watch it right now. Oh, this is the one, the Hungarian skis. Dude, what was that? It's so great. I have skied maybe half a dozen times in my life. I could have done better than that. Oh, it's so great. She's an inspiration to everyone who wants to be an Olympian. |
| 1:11.0 | And she's like an American, right? |
| 1:12.4 | Yes, she's American. |
| 1:13.3 | So she's like, would she just pay for her ticket and buy a uniform? |
| 1:18.1 | It's an insult to Olympians everywhere. |
| 1:20.5 | If you haven't seen Elizabeth Swainty compete in the Olympics, look up that video. |
| 1:24.5 | Google it. |
| 1:25.0 | It is phenomenal. |
| 1:27.3 | Anyway. |
| 1:27.8 | The best was the stunned reaction of like the fans and the announcer. |
| 1:31.7 | Like no one had any idea what was going on it. |
| 1:33.4 | They just started staring. |
| 1:34.4 | They're like, did we just get punked? |
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