The Ovi Injury Scare.... That Wasn’t
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After a few nervous moments on Twitter, Alex Ovechkin is OK following an awkward fall during an informal skate. Rob is joined by Tarik El-Bashir of The Athletic and Tom Gulitti from NHL.com to look at what the Caps look like as Training Camp is around the corner.
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| 0:00.0 | I come out here for one day of these caps informal skates. |
| 0:03.4 | One day, and it happens to be the day that Ovi is helped off the ice. |
| 0:08.3 | Tarek El Bashir, it seemed like a crisis for a minute there. |
| 0:12.9 | Jokes on you, Rob! |
| 0:15.7 | Ovi was just playing us all. |
| 0:17.8 | In all seriousness, it did look like something serious happened, but fortunately, |
| 0:22.8 | the captain's fine. Tom Gallini from NHL.com. This is kind of a Twitter emergency today. We were |
| 0:29.1 | scrambling the deck for a while. Yes, yes. You're all of a sudden you're running like, |
| 0:32.5 | what is going on here? And, you know, OV's hopping off on one leg and yelling and like you |
| 0:37.0 | think it's the end of the world. And somehow he's back 10 minutes later on the ice, like nothing happened. It's not somehow. He's only partially human. The rest of us are fully human. I'm Rob Carlin, the Capitals Talk podcast. Starts now. Look out here. Big Glass. Go! Alex Ovechkin, thank you very much. |
| 0:56.3 | What's up, Kaffs fans? |
| 0:57.3 | It is time for another edition of the Capitals Talk podcast |
| 0:59.7 | as we are finally in the week. |
| 1:01.9 | The training camp is opening. |
| 1:03.7 | Media Day is Thursday. |
| 1:05.5 | They are on the ice Friday morning. |
| 1:07.4 | One week from today, remarkably. |
| 1:09.7 | Preseason games will be underway at capital one arena |
| 1:13.0 | tarik al-bashir formerly of nbishop wisconsin now of the athletic today was uh look i |
| 1:20.3 | tweeted out the worst possible thing just happened which at the time the worst possible thing |
| 1:26.1 | you could see as a caps fan or someone covering this team |
| 1:28.4 | is Ovi being helped off the ice by a combination of Nicholas Baxham and John Carlson, each with, |
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