106.7 The Fan D.C. Sports Talk All Day [Video]

The puck drops for the Capitals’ 50th season on Saturday, as they host the Devils at Capital One Arena, and Nic Dowd is back both on the front line for the Caps and as a regular Thursday guest of the Junkies this year.

He’s gonna need a walk-up song like all of our regular guests – will he go with “You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon as he does at Cap One? – but he’s ready to get going after an exotic offseason.

“Exotic meaning going down slides and stuff like that? That’s what you tend to do when you go on vacation with kids,” Dowd joked of his summer. “But we actually had a big summer, probably traveled more this year than we ever had. We went to Florida right after the season ended with friends, and then we summer in Minnesota; we have a house near …