This is Joe Beninati. You're listening to NBC Sports Washington's Capitol's face-off podcast. Here he is. Here's your host, J.J. Regan. Thank you, Joe. Welcome into another edition of NBC Sports Washington's Capitals Faceoff podcast.

I'm, of course, your host, the one and only, the Capitals correspondent, JJ Regan.

With me today, he is the Capitals Insider.

He's the Garfunkel to my Simon.

He's Tark Helbeshir.

Tark.

You know, these lame intros, they scream overcompensation.

I'm not sure what you're overcompensating for.

You say that the response has been overwhelming in favor of these intros.

Of the emails to you.

I've had face-to-face interactions with fans.

One time.

During my authentic fan experience around the concourses around the NHL.

Yes.

And they have overall, they have panned your intro.

You have one experience.

And so you are one for one and using that as a hundred percent.

Yes.

Today, it is the mailbag pod meaning you the listener get to decide today's

topics yes we are doing two mailback podcasts in a row two reasons for that one because ovechkin's

thousandth game is coming up and so the next podcast will be just about ovechkin's thousandth game

and the second reason is because we were supposed to record another podcast earlier in the week, and I forgot the recorder. So there is a peek behind the curtain. But anyway, there are plenty of questions to answer because you guys really came out in force this week. You guys still want to know about the goalie situation, but we have some questions about the Capps Prospects, has some questions about the playoff lineup. So let's get right into it. First off, let's start with Katie Trout. Katie wants to know about possible lineouts for the playoffs as she writes. The Blue Line has gone through a boatload of change this season, let alone the goalie situation. So who do you see in the press box and with the lineups when it comes to the defense?

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