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, everybody, to another edition of the NBC Sports Washington's Capitals face-off podcast.

I am your host, the capitalist correspondent, J.J. Regan, with me today.

He is the capitalist insider.

He is the Mill House to my Bart Simpson.

He is Tark Elbuchar, Tark.

I like Millhouse. And Bart was just a, he was a little punk,

which is a perfect and very apropos description of J.J. Regan. We will make sure that not everything

is coming up Millhouse today. Whoa, wait. Are you making fun of my glasses? Is that a reference to my

glasses? To my black-framed glasses?

Yes, you caught me. We just went through sensitivity training yesterday here at NBC Sports, Washington. I haven't had that training yet. Mine's today. Today. Well, good luck with that. It's long. But we decided we weren't going to make fun of each other. We weren't going to discuss other people's appearances. Clearly, they haven't heard the podcast.

Actually, you might have to change your bit to open these things after you go through this training. Yeah, that'll be interesting. I'll have to listen to that. What we were we all talking about today? It is the Mailbag podcast. You take the time to ask us questions. So we take the time to answer them. This week you wrote a lot about Hershey and the prospects, so we're going to get into those.

Sorry if we breeze through some of the other questions, but there's a lot of stuff on the prospects that I really want to get to.

So I don't want to run out of time.

So, Tyak, we're going to try to rush through this first block and get through these questions as quickly as possible. What are you trying to say here, JJ? Are you trying to say I'm long-wended? I hesitate to even bring that up because every time I say, all right, Tark, let's try to speed this up. You come out with your longest answer of the day. Every time I do that. I may be loquacious. But we're going to try to breeze through these first few questions so we can have as much time on the prospects as possible because there are a lot of prospect questions. So the first question from Garrett Allegra. What's up Garrett? Frequent listener, first time question asker. I love the pod and the intros. Thank you, Garrett. Boo. I've noticed most people have been very optimistic and positive about the caps this

off season, obviously for good reason, but I'm curious as to what you guys think might

be a weakness for this team this year that they will have to either overcome or address

at the trade deadline.

I'm hesitant to say weakness without seeing the product on the ice yet, but you can

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