Chapter 1: What recent achievements did the Canucks accomplish?
whoa wait a minute huh hold up what oh okay did we just lose the canucks you're listening to halford and brough Carlson slowly across the San Jose blue line. Into the slot. To the net. He scores!
What a shot by Linus Carlson. Off the post and in. Back to Boolean. High slot across to Rossi. One-timer. He scores! Marco Rossi wins it on the power play in overtime for the Canucks. Rory is a rare repeat winner at Acosta.
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Chapter 2: Is Alex Ovechkin considering retirement?
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Big scenes out of Washington yesterday in what may or may not have been Alexander Ovechkin's last home game. Caps also won both games over the weekend, so their playoff hopes are still alive. What's going to happen next for Ovi and the Caps? We'll ask Tarek at 6.30. 7 o'clock, Jason Sobel is going to join the program. Host Sirius XMPGA Tour Radio, as you heard in the intro.
Rory McIlroy won his second consecutive green jacket at the Masters on Sunday.
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Chapter 3: What was the atmosphere like during Ovechkin's potential last game?
With his victory, Rory joins Jack, Nick, and Tiger. We're all on a first-name basis here as the only players to have won back-to-back at Augusta. We'll talk to Jason Sobel about that at 7 o'clock this morning. 7.30, we're going to go to Detroit. Will Birchfield's going to join the program from 97.1, the ticket in Detroit, in case you missed it.
The Red Wings were eliminated from the playoffs over the weekend, meaning their playoff drought extends to 10 days.
seasons it happened on home ice too and the fans let him know about it what comes next for this organization who now owns the nhl's longest active playoff drought we'll ask will at 7 30 8 o'clock kevin woodley nhl.com and in goal magazine as you mentioned jason the canucks have won back-to-back games for the first time this season beat the sharks in san jose on saturday ducks in anaheim on sunday uh kevin's gonna join us to break it all down and all the highlights
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Making safety simpler by giving construction companies the best in tools, resources, and safety training. Visit them online at bccsa.ca. So it was a shootout win Saturday in San Jose, followed by Marco Rossi's power play goal with just 11 seconds left in overtime. Canucks win back-to-backs thanks to a 4-3 OT win over the Ducks at the Honda Center last night.
So I didn't get to watch Saturday's game in San Jose, but by all accounts, it was pretty entertaining. I did get to watch last night's win in Anaheim, culminating just like an incredible day on the couch.
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Chapter 4: How did injuries impact the Capitals' season?
Amazing. Man, was I... Amazing couch day. So even though the Masters was pretty riveting and there were all sorts of lead changes, I was still fighting for my life to stay awake just because... It was like a kind of a nice day. It was a good nap day. I'm not going to lie. It was a good nap day. I woke up for the last few holes, but I don't know. I just can't. It's tough. Those were...
Those are bad losses for San Jose and Anaheim, neither of whom are playoff quality teams, despite the fact that one of them, Anaheim, will probably qualify. We can get into the playoff races later. A couple of encouraging Canucks moments from the first period last night in terms of team spirit and One was Teddy Bluger challenging Radko Gudis to a fight after Gudis took out Liam Ogren.
That takes some courage. The other was how happy a bunch of the young guys looked when Curtis Douglas scored his first NHL goal. And I'm sure the veterans were happy for Curtis Douglas too, but... It was Curtis Douglas and a bunch of young guys on the ice when he scored. It was Ratu. It was Kudryavsev. It was Mueller and DPD out there.
And somehow that group of five players scored a goal in the NHL. First NHL point for Kudryavsev, too. And he was probably like, hey... Should we celebrate me too? You know what?
Chapter 5: What are the implications of Ovechkin's performance on the power play?
That's pretty cool. Anyway, Douglas followed up his goal with a scrap of his own later in the period. All of a sudden, we were on Gordie Howe Hattrick watch, which did not come to fruition, but we'll accept it. A goal and a fight and a good old celebration for Curtis Douglas in the first period. And you know what? Let's continue the Curtis Douglas good vibes right now.
I want to play his walk-off interview with Murph because in a season where there haven't been a lot of really good tug-at-the-heartstring, feel-good moments, it was nice not just to watch the guy score his first ever NHL goal. I think it was in his 41st NHL game. but also the reaction that you said from all the young guys on the ice and then what it meant to Curtis Douglas.
Because if you listen to this interview, you can tell he actually says he's trying not to get emotional, but you can tell he was very emotional. Those big tough guys are always a bunch of softies. Just a syrupy little guy at the heart of it. Here's Curtis Douglas after scoring his first ever NHL goal in a win 4-3 over the Anaheim Ducks.
Honestly, goosebumps. I think I have chills right now just talking about it. It was, I don't want to get emotional, but it was really, really special. And I think just coming down the line and seeing all the smiles and people freaking out because they've been there the whole time and cheering me on and making sure I don't get down and haven't scored yet. It's been a lot of games.
Will it ever come? That kind of thing. And once you've won that many games and you haven't scored, it kind of gets into your head. So seeing them pulling for me was really special. I'll never forget it.
Yeah, that was a cool moment. And good for Curtis Douglas. We'll see if he's part of the future for the Vancouver Canucks.
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Chapter 6: How do the Capitals' playoff chances look?
They're going to have to determine whether or not he can play and keep up at the NHL level. But the fact he scored yesterday is certainly a checkmark for him. A couple other thoughts from the weekend. There's got to be a market and maybe a decent market for Jake DeBrusque this offseason if that is indeed what he wants.
He made some comments a while back which suggested that he's not really into the whole rebuild thing. He did walk back those comments later, but I think most of us were kind of like, yeah, he could be traded this offseason. He's a power play machine. He's fourth in the NHL in power play goals. I can't believe it. Right? That's amazing. Really? Yes.
Wyatt Johnson, Kirill Kaprizov, Pavel Dorofeev, and Jake DeBrusque. Jake DeBrusque has more power play goals than Leon Dreisaitl, Alex DeBrinckit, Jason Robertson, Uri Slavkoski, Dylan Larkin, Steve Stamkos, and Connor McDavid. Wow. And at five on five, he's... He's not have more goals than those guys. He's not up there. He's not up there.
But, I mean, look, he's got... We've said this so many times in the last little while when we talk about... Dabrowski on the power play. He's got great hands. And whether that's going to the net for rebounds or tipping pucks or just finishing in close on the goalie, that's a skill. And there's a lot of teams out there that are like, we don't have a net front guy.
Chapter 7: What are the challenges facing the Canucks organization?
And he is pretty good at that. Another thing, Brock Besser up to 22 goals after scoring shorthanded last night in Anaheim. That's not a terrible total for Besser given the team, the mishmash of guys that he's played with for much of the season. Is it the 30 goals that you'd like a guy like Brock Besser with his contract to get to? No, and I guess he did reach 40 goals not too long ago.
way off that but 22 goals on this Canucks team is the most on the team and really it's not a surprise that since Marco Rossi got healthy and those two started playing together and that includes time on the power play I don't think it's a surprise that he's starting to score Besser like a lot of wingers Need someone to get him the puck. Yep.
And he was playing with Petey, who's struggled at 5-on-5. He was playing with David Kompf, who's not... by any means, an offensive center. He's almost like purely a shutdown center, bottom six center, and he was stuck with him. You know, Besser had success with JT Miller when Miller was really on his game. And, you know, I think Besser's probably going to stick around.
I don't know if he has any interest in leaving. We'll see come the offseason, but... you know, he's still the Canucks' best goal scorer. And if you could turn that into an asset in return and sell that story to someone, but I'm kind of with you on this one. I think the contract and the fact he wants to stay doesn't sound like he wants to go anywhere. It means he probably will.
But the Islanders were apparently interested, right? And the Islanders might be making some moves. They need some goal scoring. And the story that was being told ahead of the deadline was that Bo Horvat was... pushing for Brock Besser to go to the Islanders. So we'll see on that one.
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Chapter 8: What insights did the guest provide on the Capitals' future?
The five-on-five scoring of the Canucks big money guys has been, I mean, we all know this, but it's been pretty bad. Yep. And it kind of starts with Petey there. Petey had, he did have seven shots Saturday in San Jose. Yeah. But just two goals in forever now. I don't know, was it 34 games? I don't know what we're up to. I'm not really keeping track, but he had a two-goal game.
So let's say it's two goals in 34 games. It's one game where he scored a goal in 34 games. And I was actually wondering, like, has Petey been ā Better or worse or just the same this season? I think he might be slightly better because he seems a little more comfortable with the puck on his stick. But I don't think the difference is by any means significant.
And I think he might be slower this season. So you're talking this season to last season, right? I saw when you posed the question. This season, well, what did you think I was saying? Just in general. But yeah, this season to last season, I mean, last season was a bad season. Because there was a season before that too, right?
Where, I mean, you know, he had way more points, but that's where the cratering began. Yeah. And that was a more precipitous fall off because that was... I mean, two years ago, he was still a guy that had 35 goals and 89 points. But that... That was the year in which he had so much production in the first half, and then just absolutely cratered in the second.
Last year, and I know a lot of people were chalking it up partly to health because he only appeared in 64 games. It's a tough question, though, year over year, because technically speaking, his production last year was nominally better than this year. He basically accomplished the same number in fewer games. Not many, but eight fewer.
So you couldn't really say he was more productive this year, but this year, obviously a far inferior team given some of the guys that he's been playing with and who they traded away. He has so many points where all he does is on the power play is just kind of feedback to Hronik and shoots. Like he's not doing anything on it. Yeah, right. That's what I'm saying.
There's a lot of like meaningless second assists. I think he's still got good vision because for the times that he just passes back to Hronik and Veronic shoots it and either scores or Jake DeBrusque tips it home. You know, there are a couple times where he'll take the puck down low in that corner and make a pretty nice pass, feed it to usually DeBrusque. He's minus 31 this year. Yeah, yeah.
I mean... And Besser's minus 44? Yeah. It's a terrible team. It's a terrible team at 5-on-5, and those guys still play a fair amount at 5-on-5. Because it was the Masters yesterday. I think Besser's going to win the green jackets. I think he is too. Which is great. Yeah, yeah. You don't actually get one, but it's great. I think with Petey, he's still good positionally.
as evidenced by all his block shots, like he knows where to be on the ice. But the whole... Where he's falling short is... And tell me if this is important. The whole moving and getting around guys and shooting the puck in the net. Those can be pretty important. That's where he's... Pretty big deal. That's where he's kind of... He's calling a little bit short. And by the way, he was...
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