Hey everyone and welcome in to another edition of the Capitol's face-off podcast by CSN.

I am your host, Capitalist correspondent, JJ Regan.

Sitting next to me, he is the Colt McCoy to my Kirk Cousins.

He's the Capitol's insider, Tyra Kelbashir. He's the Capital's Insider, Tarak Al-Bashir.

What's up, man?

Today on the Capitals, we will be talking about the Capitol's struggles. We'll be talking

about all the hate people are throwing Carl Olsner's way, talking about the Kim Chankirk

suspension, and the possible first round matchups for the playoffs. But Tark, let's dive right into the struggles.

Caps have lost four straight.

So I've compiled a list of ten, an exhaustive list of ten possible reasons

why the caps are struggling.

Before we get to that, I just wanted to say, I wouldn't be Colt McCoy, I'd be Nate Sudwell.

Nate Sudfell. Yes, I'd rather be Nate Sutton. That'd be better. I should have put that one down.

Fair enough. Anyway, so I put together a list of 10 exhaustive reasons as to why the capitals could be exhausting reasons but yes so I'm gonna I'm gonna give you all 10 all'm going to ask you, is it a big factor in their struggles?

A little factor in their struggles or not a factor at all.

Okay.

So first, let's talk about the gold tending.

All right.

The gold tending has gone from Vesna caliber level to just an 845 save percentage in the last four games, 17 goals against during the streak.

So how much of a factor is the goaltending at this point?

I'm going to go with a little factor.

I mean, goaltender is, in most cases, the most important position on the ice. It has been for the capitals for a

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