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for having me guys you can't go five feet around here like it's been a while since i've been in the concourse so i'm sure people i'm waking up for lost time oh it's gonna say are your quads okay a lot of sitting standing nailing bending get your autographs and pictures done getting back to the old days love what an exciting time for this organization as we kick off a brand new year on saturday night but let's start with this event i was telling danny earlier the caps of all the teams in town do the best with this kind of stuff like it's it's just a familial feels like we're all coming back together first time long time 50 years of this organization and over 70 former players are coming back to join all the current players tonight at this event peter bondra has done a phenomenal job in in you're recuscitating this alumni and it has just grown from year to year and now with this being the 50th we've had the most uh turnout that we've ever had for this event i just was downstairs guys i hadn't seen since i played i mean guys uh that played here in the 70s i got to meet for the first time it's it's phenomenal down there and the connection that this organization has with this city i mean is is exemplary right here tonight i think there's going to be over 15 000 people at this event um it's a great way to kick off the 50th anniversary this organization it'll never obviously because it couldn't be never being original six you know it's never going to have the the same cache as some of the others but it's not mature it feels like right whereas i i'm ever going to land over maryland to the capital center with you know 5,000 my best buddies to to watch an okay team and then they've been good mad everything between over those years just reflect on it where this organization has come from and where it is now pretty darn healthy place i'd say well somebody was telling me a story about the save the caps drive yeah a couple years after they were here uh huh and to see where when we when we were in the finals in 2018 to see the the two or three blocks around this arena just filled with red was was crazy and i think a lot of it obviously has to do with the ovi effect i mean ovi came on board and then that that generation of players that were here um i think just created such a buzz um with this community and and then obviously culminating with the Stanley Cup championship everybody loves a winner and uh i think this organization just does a great great job of of interacting with the community it is funny to think about that so 50 years feels like such a big number but then you think about ovi and he's essentially been a part of 40 of the organization's history as he's embarking on almost two decades now he is as responsible as anybody in organizational history for where we are but what do you make of this era this rock the red in this building this group that makes the playoffs almost annually one cup to show for it but so many years where they're knocking on the door like what do you think this is done for hockey in this city well i think it's done everything the excitement it's generated i mean if you come here to watch a game it's an event i mean it's it's boisterous especially when our guys are doing well it's boisterous um you know we get the we get the unleashed the fury you know late in the third period and and um when we're competing when we're competing for first place when we're we're battling and competing in the playoffs it's just such a great time to be here and it's this yeah this era of caps hockey is is obviously one of the best that's been in the in 50 years that we've been here remind me like the year you guys made the amazing cup run that nobody really saw come in necessarily back in the you know the end of the 90s into 2000 what's the building like at the beginning of those seasons obviously the city rallies behind a team because it becomes the cool thing to do like what what where was the fan base then well it was a little different because we just moved into mci center and that was in December moving from from u.s. arena and and so just being in a new building obviously uh provides a buzz and an energy and and i think that kind of that kind of um more rubbed off on us as players when the building was full and loud and electric and maybe it wasn't necessarily for the team but for the building but then as the rest of that season when it's sort of flipped okay we know what the building's about but now we've actually got a good hockey team and you know we we channeled that that energy into that nice playoff run that we had it was disappointing though when we played Detroit in the finals where we came back for game three and four and the whole lower bowl was was Detroit Red Wing fans i think that was a little demoralizing for our group but you know we had yes obviously we would have loved to to win a game and see what we could have done of it made of it but you know that that that Red Wing's french uh team for those two years i mean that probably one of the better teams and they're pretty good yeah loaded with all the famers only calls it with this year live cap one arena all great and danny just to your point so i was in you know high school and and and college kind of your heyday here in your prime playing for the capitals and i was thinking about what while you were talking there was no such thing as youth hockey round here it was basically like wings world you know like game on game off on the street street hockey style is either the chevy chase club if you belong there was a rink fort dew pond and then maybe like sometimes in cab and john if it was cold enough now there's like youth hockey leagues it's like a travel sport like anywhere else and you're part of building that i would say just that that enthusiasm and excitement it really got kicked and overdrive now with this group but that to me is remarkable i don't know just your your thoughts on that well i think that goes hand in hand when you have a successful team and you have some players that that uh you know the the the community loves and you know when you bring your kids to games and then all of a sudden they they see the game and they see an alictal vechkin or they see uh you know braid and hopey or um peter bondra and they're like i want to play that game and so then they talk to their parents about i how do i get to play hockey and so when you have more and more people like that you know there's a movement and then there was a demand for new arenas so they they built some arenas and then um the minor hockey program started taking off and uh there's definitely a correlation between uh the nhl team and minor hockey if you have a successful program with some star players the kids are usually the ones that that have the you know want the parents to get them playing hockey because they think it's pretty cool it's off season was different for the capitals i mean looking at this group now and you're still a big part of this organization it unfortunately there was a lot of money to spend because tjoshi and nicholas backstream are unavailable and that's you know turning up the page it's sad for a lot of things that's hard yeah but the amount of players that were brought in talented veterans that really could help push this thing forward now it's substantial for the first time in many many off seasons what do you make of of what brian mccolland and company we're able to do well there's a lot of optimism for sure uh when you get a when you get a guy like do boi um with his skill set and his talent and hope you know that that maybe carbs has the the secret recipe to unlock his potential if if that happens look out i mean we've got a very special hockey player and then uh you know we got manji apani who was a great player in calgary for many years um uh chikron uh defensement from from autowa again another talented player that you know if we can harness his ability and get the most out of him is just going to be a great um counter to uh john carlson i mean johnnie's getting older too and he maybe can't haul in minutes that he used to and this uh chicker is going to be a great offset for him what about the goaltending situation so chucky last year would ended up being the hot hand they went into the playoffs with lenngren and maybe that happens again this year but they bring in mason tomsen feels like maybe we don't even know who ends up being the guy yet presumably you tell me do you think someone has to take over or could it be a like a time share and does that work in today's any well i think you're gonna i think you have to have some sort of a time chair it's not like not like the days when i played marty barder played where we played 72 74 game imagine that 72 games and now they don't even like goalies go back to back it's no and and and it's not so much from a physical standpoint i mean i i like to train like a like a player i was always in really good shape and and and that workload never really affected me i think the thing now is there's so much parity and there's so much importance to win every game because they're it's so close that is more of a mental break um you know having a goalie play try to play 72 games and pressure impact games every night it's it takes a toll where when we were playing we had we had expansion teams that were there and you knew that even on your when you're you had an off-nighter you weren't playing your best you knew more times than not that you were going to beat that team and that's not taking anything away from it it's just a different different era of hockey now what do you think real quick sardani oh goal-tending money i saw um jistirk and i think it was turned on 11 and 88 the other day it seems like there's a bubble that could pop at some point right we're just because i know that guy's special and elite but there's only so many of those goalies where a lot of times the team just it's the lingering who ends up being the guy not the contract player that you bring in where we headed do you think in goal-tending spending what do you think of that by the way 88 million he said no and do you wish you could still play i try to find a way to play with 88 million no i think and and and there were no other once carry price it signed his big contract the market kind of stale and actually kind of went reverse a little bit um so those 10 million dollar contracts were out there anymore so when he turned that down it actually surprised me a little bit that was going to be the highest highest contract ever given to a goal-tender so i i really don't understand the reasoning i mean you got the money you got the term i don't know if he's looking to get more with the with the increase in the salary cap to me that's kind of counterproductive because you could use some of that money to bring in better players to help your team become better so i i don't know but i think in his case he's the he's the star guy and you know he's uh he was drafted by the rangers he was developed by the rangers so he's a ranger through and through where sometimes when you bring in these guys from other organizations they're not quite as comfortable you know what i mean like there there has to be sort of a comfort level for goalies to really play their best you saw that with babrowski the first few years in florida when he went down there you know they were really kicking themselves for signing with that contract and then obviously he uh in the last two years especially this last year when the Stanley Cup it was all worth it when we're talking about some of the new players on this roster it's exciting how long does it take and there's no right answers no one formulaic thing here only but how long does it take do you think for everybody to kind of have it be second nature right where you can go through training camp you got to go through good bad and everything in between where when you throw that pass you know that someone's going to be on the other end of it or those anticipation timing plays etc how long does it take for everybody is on the same page in second nature it's probably a good 20 30 games i mean we've got we've had to deal with that a lot in Hershey the last few years and i know Todd Nelson's biggest thing is like this isn't going to be a team until about 30 30 games in and that's just getting to know guys getting to know different personalities like you said getting nowhere what the trend is for a line mate what your partner's going to do um you know from a goal to understand a point of view what what your deep pairing is going to do um so there's a big adjustment and it's usually 20 30 before before there's really strong chemistry there's a uh there's a goal score of some renown named Wayne Gretzky he's at the top there's a guy that plays here that's 41 shy a i still can't believe that because i saw Gretzky i can't believe anybody's close and yet here we are just quantify that for us how incredible it is and just and what you make of it so three years ago i knew i mean obviously i knew ovie was one of the best goal scorers ever but i had no idea how close he was to Gretzky's record because i didn't even really put him in the same category i think the stuff that Gretzky achieved it just you never thought was ever going to be broken i think the guy had more assists than the next guy had total points yeah like it's just they're off the chart stats and so when it came to light that ovie was 180 goals away you're like okay that's still 180 goals but man is he close and then to think he's 42 and you could possibly do it this year it is unless people play the game i mean you just have no idea how special that is especially with the way the goaltender's playing now um how tight teams play defensively um it's it's incredible like he is legitimately that he will be the all-time best goal score whether he breaks the record or not in my opinion with all the variables the goal tenders now he will be the all-time best goal score ever what it's going to do for this organization also i can't wait for i feel like it's going to be 98 home run chase of my childhood kind of attention as he gets closer when the countdown's really on and he's ten away nine away networks cutting into games kind of stuff i really think it's going to be on that level it could be well i think it's going to take it to the other level too what it's going to do for the nhl product i mean what what the nhl's done in the last five years is phenomenal like we are we're right almost on par with the other three big dogs maybe not football but basketball and and and mlb i mean it's they've done such a good job promoting this this game and and then you have something like this happen a once in a generation player that's going to break maybe one of the unbreakable records you know it's it's i think it's going to it's going to be an exciting time obviously in dc but i think for 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