Decoding Alex Ovechkin’s retirement plans
4/13/202639 min
Alex Ovechkin very well may have played his final home game in a Washington Capitals uniform Sunday afternoon, but The Great 8 isn’t letting us know one way or another… at least not yet. And so, Max, Laz, and Sean Gentille discuss if we are in fact witnessing the end of Ovi’s storied NHL career. Plus, The Athletic’s own Kevin Kurz joins the show to talk about the surging Philadelphia Flyers and, to close things out, the guys predict which teams will grab the final playoff spots in the East and West during this final stretch of the season.
Hosts: Max Bultman and Mark Lazerus
With: Sean Gentille and Kevin Kurz
Executive Producer: Chris Flannery
Producer: Chris Flannery
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First 90 secondsMark Lazerus· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is The Athletic Hockey Show.
Max Bultman· Host0:11
[upbeat music] Hey, everybody. Max Boltman here alongside Mark Lazarus for another episode of The Athletic Hockey Show. We are in the final week of the NHL season, and some questions are getting answered, some still resolved. The Atlantic r- race, the East Wild Card race, those are settled, but we still got a lot to get to in the Metro. Uh, the Metro teams are battling for the final spot there. The Islanders, I believe, are eliminated now after losing on Sunday. Columbus is behind the eight ball. They lost to Boston. This might very well come down to Philly and Washington, so we're gonna have Kevin Kurz join us a little bit later to talk Flyers, and right now from DC let's bring in Sean Gentille. He's been around the Capitals all week. Sean, we are gonna get to the playoff race with the Capitals, but we gotta start with the story that everyone wants to know about Washington.
Sean Gentille· Guest1:06
Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. I've, I've, I've been told over the last five days- [laughs] ... that the only thing that matters around the Washington Capitals is the playoff race. There's nothing else going on. Yes.
Max Bultman· Host1:14
There's a little something else that we gotta get to. It's Alex Ovechkin. Uh, I'm sure you were like me watching this one, looking for hints as to, you know, is this his final home game with the Capitals? There, there were hints in each direction, I would say, maybe, or maybe more so in one direction, but you never know who's, who's