The Washington Capitals are
preparing for a new season.
The CAP season and home opener
is going down tonight at Capital
One arena as they get ready
to take on the Boston Bruins.
The Caps are of course hoping
to make the playoffs for
the 9th consecutive season.
So of course we want to hear from you.
Text US 2028955599 or you can tweet
us and here's what we want to know.
What are your expectations
for the upcoming season?
Got to use that hashtag.
Get up DC so we see it.
And while you're doing that,
let's get on. Out to
a Matt Gregory.
He's at the Capital One arena.
Made a lot of excitement
there this morning.
I can see it all over your face.
Then hey, listen,
there's so much excitement.
Obviously you're talking
about 9 consecutive, you know,
playoff runs for the capitals,
but we're also talking about the
historic season for the Great 8,
Alexander Ovechkin.
He could move into this season the
second leading goal scorer in NHL
history on his way to chasing Gretzky.
But before we get to that,
you can see they're getting the
games or getting their rink rather
together right now you got to pull
up the cover so you can reveal the
ice and this will all be ready
obviously by the time the puck drops,
but it's just it's fascinating to watch.
Right.
I mean there's the whole time.
There's always ice underneath of that.
Now going into what you can experience as a
fan today we've got Amanda Tischler here,
the from the Washington Capitals and she's
going to give us a little bit of, you know,
what the fan experience is going to be like.
We got rocked the red carpet and slap shot.
You can come in the picture too.
Tell us a little bit about you know
what fans you know it's we've had
two years or two seasons almost
of a pandemic hockey.
What's it going to be like tonight?
Yeah. So tonight we'll kick things off
really early and that's something we want
to encourage fans to get here by three.
PM for our rock the red carpet
experience where the players will arrive,
you can get autographs,
you can take photos before
they enter the locker room.
So from 3:00 to 4:30, that'll be taking on.
And then we'll just continue to
have really great festivities on F
Street between our Capital One fan
studio that has a lot of unique art
and our Caesars 18 Wheeler truck,
which will be really neat inside
and outside with some long games
for, you know, the Capitals fans.
They know the current capitals
will be signing autographs.
Do you have any alumni? Coming
back, yes, alumni will be
walking the red carpet.
Of course we've got slapshot walking
the red carpet and some VIP guests.
So definitely you never know
who you might see. Yeah,
I kind of touched on.
It's always exciting this time
of year as we get back to,
you know, hockey season.
But with what Alexander Ovechkin
is going through, I mean,
what's the excitement like for the team?
Yeah, I think everybody is on
the edge of their seats just in
witnessing hockey history and sort
of every goal is one step closer.
So it should be a really exciting.
Care of the great chases, we like to say
and you know as we've kind of
everything every story, we
do know it kind of has this angle of like
we're coming out of the pandemic almost.
Is there something that the the team is
looking forward to providing for the
fans throughout the season that maybe
we haven't been able to do for a little
bit? Yeah. So we in terms of just
things available to fans are practices
are always open over at MedStar,
capitals ice, Plex,
we have so many giveaways.
The atmosphere here in this arena
is incredible and events are back.
So definitely keep an eye out
for those sorts of opportunities.
To be involved at different
places throughout the city.
Amanda, thank you so much for your time.
Slap shot Boo.
Did not see that coming.
I'm gonna have to get
my hearing checked.
And that was fantastic.
So you got it tonight.
7:00 o'clock the puck drops Boston Bruins
against the our Washington Capitals.
And it's going to be an exciting
season and a historic one at least
for the next couple seasons, too.
Back to you guys. My
goodness, that's slapshots move.
Made us go like this. Woke us up.
And no one knew it was happening.
Hi, slapshot. Wow, you looking good.
Yes. He has not aged. No. And those
eyebrows are always together. Always.
Doesn't age a day.
No thanks, Matt.
All righty, 640.