New RMNB Podcast features actual theme music, a Nate Schmidt interview, and new co-host Andrew Gordon

The RMNB Podcast is back for a new season and it’s 100x more Swedish.

Peter, who is too busy to return my calls, texts, and desperate notes via carrier pigeon, has been thrown to the curb for new co-host Andrew Gordon. Yes, the same Andrew Gordon who once scored goals for the Capitals and smooched Marcus Johansson on the cheek. The former Calder Cup-winning Hershey Bear and Teemu Selanne apologist is now playing for the Swedish Hockey League’s Linköping HC.

As you’ll see in our first new podcast of the 2016-17 season, Gordo has a ton of fascinating insight and amazing stories about many former and current Caps. Our discussion took place Wednesday night ahead of Opening Night in the NHL. Gordo was speaking to me from his apartment in Sweden while I phoned in from Frederick, Maryland.

Podcast

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A few takeaways:

• Gordo is one of the few players who can say that they’ve played with both Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. Crosby is a close friend of his and training partner in Nova Scotia.
• I apparently am an “air-quote expert.”
• Nate Schmidt did an interview with RMNB’s Chris Gordon for the show about his work as a Caps associate goaltending coach. Wait, what?
• We talk about the NHL’s cruelty of forcing the Caps to watch the Pens’ banner raising.
• We go over the Caps lines for tonight’s game against the Penguins.
• We answer your ridiculous questions from Twitter.
• And we debut our new theme music. It was created by one of my favorite artists: Andy Tongren of the Young Rising Sons. Caps PA Announcer Wes Johnson also gives us a fiery introduction. (Special note: he recorded this clip for us four years ago when he created custom voice messages for every member of the blog. We finally used the clip and it sounds so amazing!)

RMNB Podcast Theme

Our tentative plan moving forward is to make the RMNB Podcast much more frequent (weekly or biweekly). Gordo and I also intend on bringing more guests onto to the show including players, RMNB authors, and other journalists from across the league. Sound good?

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