Who makes the Caps' opening night lineup?

Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin

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Washington Capitals, Hockey, Craig Laughlin, Sports News, Ice Hockey, News, Sports, Nhl, Joe Beninati

4.8 • 528 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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For the first time in a few years, the Caps will head to training camp with roster spots to fill. In fact, there could be as many as five jobs -- three forward spots and two on defense -- up for grabs when the team reconvenes in September. Who makes the cut? Jill Sorenson and Tarik El-Bashir make their line-by-line predictions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Capitals Face Off podcast.
0:13.0	Welcome everyone to this week's edition of the Capitals Face Off podcast.
0:18.0	Jill Swanson here with Tark-El Bashir. No fancyames. Nope. We just can't do it without JJ. It just doesn't feel the same. Just hockey talk. So, all right. So Tark, today, what we're going to do is we are going to go through the lineup. All the forwards. Armchair GM. That's what we're going to do. I know we wrote about it on our website a little while ago.
0:41.4	Yep. All the forwards. Armchair GM. That's what we're going to do. I know we wrote about it on our website a little while ago.
0:41.4	Yeah.
0:41.7	Just last week we did our final 20 questions for our series on CSM Mid-Atlantic was all three of us,
0:49.1	you and JJ, we all put our predictions out there for the opening night lineup.
0:53.1	So we're going to dive a little deeper into each line,
0:56.8	forward to Andy, and then we're going to get to some mailbag questions that don't deal
1:02.2	with the lineup.
1:03.3	I'm going to intersperse some mailbag questions.
1:06.1	Interspers.
1:06.6	While we talk about the lineup.
1:08.6	Therefore, we don't repeat.
1:10.0	Okay?
1:11.2	Interspers. I'm sure I can spell that. What do you want to do? While we talk about the lineup. Therefore, we don't repeat. All right.
1:11.7	So what do you want to do?
1:15.0	Do you want to start first line first? Yeah. Do you want to go from the bottom? I see we go top line to the bottom line. All right. So give me your top three. Go. All right. So I was kind of torn on this, but, you know, one thing I've picked up on in my year of covering general manager Brian McClellan is during news conferences, he often drops hints.
1:35.6	Sure he does.
1:36.3	That become reality.
1:37.8	Yes.
1:38.5	He's very, he's very, he's not, he's a good general manager.
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