In the Washington zone and a puck for Justin Sortif. I mean, these guys are flying right now. Back to center. Here he comes again. Sortiff coming right up the middle. Across the Anaheimline, dropped off to Van Riemsdike. Center to McMichael. Oh, across. They score. And it's a hat trick. Justin Sortif. Three goals for number 34. Oh, baby four one washington have a day just and sorda what an

outstanding play he crates the whole thing gets speed through neutral zone drops it off and then a

tick-tac toe play ryan letter what an unselfish play that was.

Seeing Sort of right in the middle.

He could have shot that puck.

He puts it over to him.

Justin Sort of has nine goals in his three-year career, and three of them came last night.

Good on Justin Sort of. John Walton and company on the call last night

as the Caps beat the struggling Anaheim Ducks 7 to 4 at Capitol 1 Arena

in a game in which Alex Ovechkin had two goals as well. Ovechkin's been on a bit of a cold streak. He had one goal in his last 14 games.

But the Great Eight gets two more last night to add to what Justin sort of did in the caps back in the win column with a seven to four win over Anaheim.

You know, one of the things I do because I'm not a big hockey guy, as most of you know,

is I do, you know, look at scores at the end of the night and standings to see where the caps

are and how they're doing. And what's really interesting is the caps had lost, you know,

I think it was six of their last

eight going into last night's game, but they were only in fourth in the Metropolitan

Division. With the win last night, they're tied for second and only three points behind the leader.

Joe B. pointed this out to me, I think the last time he was on, which was right before the holidays.

And he said, man, you look at the Eastern Conference, and it's all bunched up.

Like there is like 10 or 11 points max.

And actually, as of today, there are 11 points difference between, in the standings, between the worst team, Columbus, who's got 43

points, and the best team, Detroit, with 54 points.

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