Tobi and BMitch gauge their confidence levels in the Capitals taking down the Canadians after a game one overtime win.
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00:00The reason that I'm more confident coming out today
00:02is because of what I saw in those first 10, 15 minutes of the game.
00:06You were worried about, okay, can this team flip the switch?
00:10We've talked about that all day today.
00:12And they showed that they definitively can.
00:15It's not something either where it was like, ooh, they sort of flipped it.
00:18They look totally different.
00:19They look like the Capitals team that was motivated.
00:23And we're hearing all leading up to the series about how Montreal is a fast team.
00:28They're smaller.
00:29They're going to be skating all over the ice.
00:31That didn't look like that early.
00:32The Capitals were flying all over the place.
00:34They were the one laying the lumber.
00:35They were hitting, and they were ready to roll.
00:38So I think seeing what I did early on in that hockey game,
00:41aside from the fact that it took them a little bit to finally put one
00:44in the back of the net, but just seeing that level of hockey again
00:47from them was really, really encouraging.
00:50Gave me a lot more confidence.
00:51And as Nate stated, there were a lot of opportunities that they just missed.
00:55And if you begin to pile those up a little bit more,
00:58and I've said this for most of the year, it's not just Ovi.
01:04It's cool that he's leading the way, but it's not just him,
01:08which I think now if you go focus on Ovi too much, somebody else gets you.
01:12You know, you get strong, and all those different guys can come get you.
01:16So I think this is the better, especially early in the playoffs.
01:20As they go farther, they're going to have to be what they were early in the season,
01:24not be a semblance of it, be what they were.
01:27Yeah, 100%.
01:28And I think that's what this series can be about is Montreal's a really good
01:32hockey team.
01:32They're one of the hottest teams coming in.
01:34They had a 1% chance at one point this season to make the playoffs be Mitch.
01:38And here they are in the playoffs.
01:39So they've had a really good run.
01:41But this is a chance for you to get back in shape.
01:43This is a chance for you to kind of get back to what you once were,
01:46like you're saying, so that when you go forward in these playoffs,
01:49assuming you're able to win this series, that when you're faced tougher
01:52competition, you're going to be back to the team that we saw that earned that
01:56number one seed in the Eastern Conference.
01:58And they're going to need that sort of play.
01:59So seeing them kind of get back to that early on in the hockey game was
02:02encouraging.