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Speaker 1: Please welcome one of your newest members of the Washington Capitals.

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Speaker 2: Please say hello to mister Alex talk Alex.

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Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm doing great, man, How are you good?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 2: Has it Has it settled in a little more?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit. I think we're trying to uh

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Speaker 3: go like Emily and I right now trying to uh

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Speaker 3: we're moving down at the end of the month and

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Speaker 3: trying to find a house. And my wife's pregnant with

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Speaker 3: her third child, so she's gonna she's about two months out.

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Speaker 3: So we got to find a hustle and it'll be

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Speaker 3: and everything like that. So it's a lot of moving parts.

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Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, I'm getting excited watching Capitals make some

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Speaker 3: big moves yesterday. It's it's been fun.

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you, like when you talk about

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Speaker 1: having to pack up the entire Tuck family and then

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Speaker 1: obviously get down, well, I mean you got to get

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Speaker 1: down here before camp starts. I get that, But now

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Speaker 1: you're looking at hospitals. That's whoa man that came out

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Speaker 1: of that came out a big time, didn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, definitely, it's uh it's a blessing that during

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Speaker 3: the off season I've been traded mid season. I was

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Speaker 3: lucky enough last time I was traded to be injured

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Speaker 3: so I didn't have to go right away, and I

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Speaker 3: was still like rehabbing my uh my shoulder after surgery,

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Speaker 3: and so to be able to have to pack up

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Speaker 3: on the trade deadline and or leave your family behind

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Speaker 3: would be that'd be really tough. So I'm glad I'm

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Speaker 3: able to help my wife, especially when she's seven months pregnant,

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Speaker 3: because it would have been it would have been tough

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Speaker 3: for sure. But we've had a lot of help and

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Speaker 3: a lot of people reach out from the Capital's organization,

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Speaker 3: the players are helping us, helping us out too. My

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Speaker 3: husband talking to Taylor show about where where she had

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Speaker 3: had their kids and everything. So it's been it's been

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Speaker 3: an easy transition.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I guess Taylor.

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Speaker 1: I mean she popped one out not too not too

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Speaker 1: long ago, so yeah, no, I mean that's a good

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Speaker 1: one to lean on.

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Speaker 2: Hey, can I can I ask you this, Alex?

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Speaker 1: So obviously a lot has happened within the last week,

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Speaker 1: but if you go back to when you were when

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Speaker 1: when the deal was made, for for you to come

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Speaker 1: to the Caps. I know that you said that it

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Speaker 1: was it was very bittersweet. Buffalo's home, like that is

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Speaker 1: that's home for you, that's where that's the team you

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Speaker 1: always wanted to, always wanted to play play for, and

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Speaker 1: you get back there. And there was something early in

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Speaker 1: the year, Alex that I that I loved and obviously

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Speaker 1: Buffalo went on a great run this year, and I

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Speaker 1: can't remember it was somebody from the press had said

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Speaker 1: to you, like, hey, is this the year you guys

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Speaker 1: are going to make the playoffs? And it and your

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Speaker 1: response wasn't cocky, but I love the answer of we're

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Speaker 1: not here to make the playoffs, We're here to go

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Speaker 1: to the Cup. But it just that's how much that

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Speaker 1: that that situation and especially being your team, that's how

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Speaker 1: much that that that scenario meant to you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it definitely did. And it was right around

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Speaker 3: the time when we started tying of turning the season

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Speaker 3: around and we started pushing our way back into a

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Speaker 3: playoff picture. And I think it was it was a

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Speaker 3: little bit like mea kind of blew it up a

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Speaker 3: little bit, But at the same time I probably should

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Speaker 3: have kept it in more internal and everything. But at

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Speaker 3: the same time, I was sitting there saying, like every

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Speaker 3: team going into training camp is like trying to win

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Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup, no matter what, even no matter what,

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Speaker 3: And so you're trying to make a team better, You're

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Speaker 3: trying to get better. You're hoping the players can play

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Speaker 3: as well as they can to get to hear ultimate dream.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's the host Stanley Cup. And so I

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Speaker 3: don't think it was a seeker or anything like that,

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Speaker 3: just not many people have said it, and especially in

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Speaker 3: the last fifteen years in Buffalo. And so to be

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Speaker 3: that we took a shot at it and we made

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. We made the second round, we were one

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Speaker 3: goal away from making it to the third round is

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Speaker 3: it's pretty special.

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Speaker 1: And I will say this, and had been a drought,

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Speaker 1: and you know that for Buffalo. We did a show

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Speaker 1: I had never been to a game up there. What

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Speaker 1: a great experience, and that was when the Sabers. This

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Speaker 1: is predates you being there, but man, what a great experience.

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Speaker 2: The city was awesome, loved the city.

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Speaker 1: And then go into a game I can't imagine if

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Speaker 1: it was we went up for a Caps Sabers game.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it would be like to be

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Speaker 1: there with that team on fire and making a push

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Speaker 2: It was a great experience.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really passionate fan base, blue collar town. But they

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Speaker 3: do they bleed, They bleed blue and gold, and they

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Speaker 3: really they really care and they know hockey too, so uh,

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Speaker 3: they know when you're not trying, they know when the

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Speaker 2: Hey Alex, did I lose you?

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Speaker 3: Oh? There you are?

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Speaker 2: Sorry?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Hey, so no, that's okay, that's all right.

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Speaker 1: Hey when when when when you finally knew that there

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Speaker 1: a deal wasn't going to be made between Alex Tuck

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Speaker 1: and the Sabers.

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Speaker 2: Had the Capitals been on your radar at all?

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Speaker 1: Or and then obviously the Caps come in and there's

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Speaker 1: the sign of trade.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second.

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Speaker 1: But once you once it kind of dawned on you

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Speaker 2: We're was Washington on It's not.

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Speaker 1: Like you had a list, Like I feel like everybody's

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Speaker 1: heard about, like whether it's Dylan Larkin, or we're ren scared.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it is were they were they top of mind

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Speaker 3: So going through and it's a longer extensive process because

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Speaker 3: it's you're just talking your agent every day or every

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Speaker 3: what teams need right wingers, what teams are just like

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Speaker 3: you have to put You do actually make lists, but

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Speaker 3: it's not the list of like this is. It's not

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Speaker 3: the list that everyone sees online. So it's more of

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Speaker 3: to re sign in Buffalo. So because you're kind of

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Speaker 3: trying to figure this out, it's like, Okay, today, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't look like it's going to happen, so talk about

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Speaker 3: this the next day. Oh they're actually like talk to

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Speaker 3: picking up again. So it's it's a day to day basis.

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Speaker 3: It was it was like that all year long and everything,

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Speaker 3: when we we came down to it, you got four

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Speaker 3: the handful of teams that we could see this happening

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Speaker 3: they said and the meetings of my with my agent

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Alex, let me ask you this, Like I listen,

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Speaker 1: I love hockey.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the greatest sport in the world.

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Speaker 1: And as a fan and somebody watching it like going

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Speaker 2: Where would he fit in? And that could be with

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Speaker 1: Like that's fun on my end as a player though,

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Speaker 1: And you just said like that had gone on all year.

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Speaker 2: Does it really take a toll?

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Speaker 3: You know what? I think it does if you don't

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Speaker 3: I liked to when I come home from the rink,

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Speaker 3: and so that was that's difficult during a time like this,

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Speaker 3: But I think that like my wife, my kids did

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Speaker 3: My oldest one's obsessed with hockey now, so he just

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Speaker 3: and it's a lot of fun. But my agent was great.

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Speaker 3: It just keep me out of the loop when I

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Speaker 3: I came down the crunch time.

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Speaker 1: Hey was the was the the way that it came together,

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Speaker 1: not to get too into the woods, but getting the

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Speaker 1: sign with with Buffalo, get that eighth year, and then

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Speaker 1: get traded and come with that eighth year. I feel

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Speaker 1: like that would have been that's that's a nice little

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Speaker 1: actual free agency and tried to do it, but I

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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, the fact that they were they were all

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Speaker 3: a special feeling. They really meant a lot, and my

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Speaker 3: family and I it's not always easy to look at

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Speaker 3: a thirty year old and be like, here's an eight

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Speaker 3: year deal. Even though I see some six written, six

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be too old at thirty eight nowadays,

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Speaker 3: but especially with all the advancements and sports science and everything.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it felt it felt really good and

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Speaker 3: I just like I said, I heard, I saw how

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Speaker 3: And yeah, being able to keep the AAV lower two

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Speaker 3: and in the eighth years I think hopefully helps the

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Speaker 1: Hey, other than your when you were in Vegas with

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Speaker 1: Logan Thompson. Other than other than Logan, do you are

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Speaker 1: you close with anybody on the on the.

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Speaker 3: Capitals other than Josh Dunn that they just signed yesterday,

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Speaker 2: But if you look at it.

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Speaker 2: You have both pro toss brothers.

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Speaker 1: You've got Tom Wilson, day are Nay, It's not like

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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I don't think anyone's gonna come into Washington

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Speaker 1: Hey have you and listen, I know that everybody is

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Speaker 1: Whether you know or not, I'm definitely not gonna ask

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Speaker 2: But does he go?

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Speaker 1: I believe I was just gonna ask, does it go

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love that kiddy, who wouldn't want to

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Speaker 1: Yesterday or going back to the draft over over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: Did I read correctly?

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Speaker 1: Were you one of the first guys from the Caps

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do that kind of everywhere ever I've been,

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Speaker 3: it's something that's always stuck in my mind, and so

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Speaker 3: I was like, Ah, that'd be really cool if I

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Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome and I and listen, we've seen players

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a classy move to see though.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's there was more just I I

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Speaker 2: Hey, do you look back at your your draft?

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Speaker 1: Like I know it was a it was a while ago,

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Speaker 1: but like hearing that and obviously, like you said, you

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Speaker 2: Were you a nervous wreck?

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Speaker 3: It was horrible horribly until I got drafted. I think

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Speaker 1: But dude, you had a good draft class. Though you

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Speaker 1: Bennett was in there, Elers was in there. You know

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Because okay, so everyone was saying this is going to

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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, like and then looking back, so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my number one got.

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Speaker 1: What a horrible class, What a class of garbage players.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know that's crazy. I mean, don't get

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Speaker 3: But everyone was like, oh, only half the first round

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you? Can I ask you a real

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Speaker 1: But you said you were all over puck Pedia yesterday

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Speaker 1: keeping up with everything. So the one of the big

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Speaker 2: He wears He wears number seventy two.

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Speaker 1: The first overall draft pick was Gavin McKenna, who goes

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Speaker 2: Who ends up with the number.

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Speaker 3: If it's not Forebroski. I'm going to be really disappointed

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Speaker 3: at Gavin McKenna because you always you always allow the

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Speaker 3: older player, the guy that's one of two Stanley cuffs, like,

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Speaker 3: who's gonna be a Hall of Famer when his goal

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Speaker 3: he used to ever play. Probably when it's all said

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Speaker 3: and you find yourself a new number.

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Speaker 2: Oh I like that.

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Speaker 3: Good for you, you know, your first overall. But yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So all right, dude, well listen, welcome to town. Very excited

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Speaker 1: to have you. You are obviously aware you we need

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Speaker 1: a push back to the playoffs this year.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm excited for it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Very good, Alex, I appreciate the time. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Capitals, my friend, of course.

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Speaker 3: Thanks