This is Joe Beninati.

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

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

Thank you, Joe.

Welcome in to another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceoff podcast, the very first playoff edition of the Capitals Face Up podcast for this season. It's very exciting. I'm, of course, your host, the Capitals correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today. He He's the Capitol's insider. He's the Wilde

Coyote to my roadrunner. He's Targ Elbuchar. Tark. I was a big roadrunner fan growing up,

so this one kind of, you know, tugs at the heartstrings a little bit. But come on, man. How many

times do we have to be told by fans that these are lame? More people are clearly telling us that they enjoy these.

Not more?

Yes.

No.

Yes.

Those are fake numbers.

You're just making these up.

You heard this from like three people.

Just about every email we've gotten says that they love the intro.

It's because your wife is writing those emails.

I would be shocked if my wife has listened to more than two episodes of this podcast. That'd be two more than my wife. Not a hockey fan. Oh, what we'll talk about today, it's the playoffs. Of course we're going to talk about the playoffs. Playoffs, we're going to preview the the cat's first round series against the Columbus Blue Jackets. We're going to look at the rest of the NHL and we're going to talk about the playoffs. Playoffs, we're going to preview the Caps first round series against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

We're going to look at the rest of the NHL and we're going to put a bow on the regular season.

Targ, on the last day of the season, the caps still had three possible first round opponents between the Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and New Jersey Devils.

When that dust finally settled, finally settled, the caps were left with a first round series against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Tark, I've seen you researching them all morning.

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