Joe Starkey

I think there's a level of ambiguity and a level of uncertainty there.

I think, I think Ovechkin last year, Dylan Strump told me this, the cap, who's, you know, Ovechkin's center on the Capitals.

He said this a couple days ago that, you know, he didn't want to put words out of his mouth, but he thinks he kind of hated the, the, the ceremony of the,

of the chase and the attention you know that that got really in the entire one up to him breaking the grassy record last year so i think what we're dealing with here is that ovation got a taste of that last year and maybe maybe kind of kind of got his fill so i think that could be part of it too is that he's just not you know he just he just doesn't want that to be part of the

part of the equation right now.

He's not biting on any kind of self-reflection, on any kind of nostalgia-based questions.

It ain't happening.

He is still pretty locked in on the task at hand, which is this team still has...

He's still got a chance to make the playoffs, and that's kind of the way he's operating right now.

Sean, we appreciate the time.

I'll leave you with this.

Who's your Hart Trophy winner this year?

I think over the last little bit, he's probably passed up the candidate on my ballot.

Yeah, I don't think we need to overthink this one.

Sounds like you're getting run over by multiple motorcycles, so we're going to let you go.

We can hear it.

Is the window down?

No.

I checked with Austin.

I said, do I sound okay?