Sean Gentile

So, yeah, that's where we are.

100% thought, though, a couple weeks ago that there was going to be some kind of announcement.

It ain't coming.

That's a good question.

I don't know if you can do that.

I honestly don't know if you can say, hey, by the way, if this is it, thanks for the memories or whatever.

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

around that team right now where I just don't, I don't know if he can pull the trigger on that.

And also, I think that's, I think that's by design.

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 in Alex's 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 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.

Like he said today, all he's talking about is the fact that they still have a chance to make the postseason.

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.

David.

I'm not trying to overthink this.