The trade deadline is but scant days away, so it’s time for Peter and Ian log onto the podcast one last time to ask the age-old question, are the Caps good? The team has problems — big problems — but they seem poised to make the playoffs … except Ian isn’t so sure. That, plus sleep problems and almost no esports chatter at all on the RMNB podcast.

Notes!

• Playoff predictions from The Athletic, Moneypuck, and Hockeyviz
• Rush goals: an epidemiological study
• Carolina is an offensive juggernaut in addition to being fun

Carolina is the most offensively potent team of the last decade. pic.twitter.com/wa49gMd6Jr

— Good Tweet Pete 🌮 (@peterhassett) February 17, 2019

• How teams look heading into the deadline:

5v5 and special teams as of this morning (reupload to fix color-coding on PK%) pic.twitter.com/fF8iUgt60B

— Good Tweet Pete 🌮 (@peterhassett) February 17, 2019

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