What the Caps can learn from the Wizards' COVID-19 pause
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week's Capitals Talk podcast comes during the midst of the team's 3-game postponement pause. We figured what better time than now to talk to longtime NBC Sports Washington's Wizards Insider Chris Miller to see what we lessons the Caps can learn from how the Wizards handled their COVID-19 pause earlier this year.
Before we talk to Chris, we go through why the Caps games were paused now and not when they lost the Russian quartet a few weeks back, what the Penguins new management team of GM Ron Hextall and President of Hockey Ops Brian Burke mean for Washington moving forward and why the Caps' odds (powered by our partners at PointsBet) to win the East Division are still somehow behind the Penguins.
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| 0:00.0 | His star! |
| 0:05.0 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:10.0 | It's not a great. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not a desert barrage. |
| 0:14.0 | It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. On this week's Capital Stock podcast, we're going to try to figure out what to do with no Capitals games to watch for a few days. We'll talk to Chris Miller, who covers the Wizards for NBC Sports Washington. And I say, why, Nick? Why would you talk to? Well, what can the Capitals learn from the Wizards with their COVID layoff? That bluster's East Division winners odds out there and we'll tell you where the capitals learn from the Wizards with their COVID layoff? |
| 0:39.9 | That plusters East Division winners odds out there. |
| 0:42.1 | We'll tell you where the capitals are there as well. |
| 0:45.5 | J.J. Regan, Nick Ashu, Capitol Stock Podcasts coming up next. |
| 0:58.4 | So as we sit here, JJ, we know at some point the Cattels will play a game again. Luckily, this isn't their situation and the reason why we've had these games postponed. |
| 1:02.9 | But we look now and we've had a Flyers game postponed. |
| 1:06.1 | We have two Sabres games postponed. |
| 1:07.9 | The hope is that they're going to play a game on Sunday as we tape this right now. That's, that's the goal anyway. Big picture, though, I know I've seen a lot of conspiracy theories out there that this is everybody going again. Why didn't the capitals get their games postponed? Because they had guys that were sitting out to. I want to give you full credit on this because I do agree with what you're saying, but you wrote about this |
| 1:27.9 | the other day on NBC Sports Washington. And it is not the same thing the capitals are going through |
| 1:33.2 | or the capitals went through that say the Flyers and the Sabres are because they have actually |
| 1:37.7 | had outbreaks right now and you've had to shut down everything. Right. So let's let's be clear. |
| 1:44.4 | The game against the Flyers was not postponed because the flyers had three people on the list. |
| 1:50.0 | That is not why, because everyone wanted to jump to, well, the flyers had three people out and the caps had four people out. |
| 1:55.9 | So why weren't the cast games postponed? |
| 1:57.7 | That is not why. |
| 1:59.3 | The reason why those games were postponed is because |
| 2:02.1 | Okay, you totally just threw me off with that. I was not. We have sound effects now that. Okay. I didn't |
| 2:11.1 | know we had sound effects. Wow, this is a profession. I don't even know what that was. What was that |
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