The elusive Matvei Michkov. Does he fit into the Capitals plans? Martin Fehervary gets a qualifying offer. Should any Caps free agents return?

In this edition of Locked on Capitals Dan starts the show by talking about the elusive Matvei Michkov. Teams are having a hard time interviewing hime and he doesn't seem like he's interested in the lime light. According to the 32 thoughts podcast: ""Teams want to get to know who they’re dealing with here. What I'm hearing is that in Russia, the teams that could get there to meet him, it wasn’t easy to get to talk to him. You would try to talk to him, set up appointments; he just wasn’t interested," Friedman said. "Like someone said to me the only way you could really get to talk to him was if you physically got to him right after a game and talked to him for a couple of minutes." Later Dan talks about Martin Fehervary a young Caps blue liner that's an RFA but is due for a new contract. “I think I will stay in Washington,” Fehervary said, according to a DeepL-generated translation. “I already got a qualifying offer and we started talking about a new contract. We’ll see how it goes.” Martin should play a big role on the Caps blue line next season. In the final segment Dan looks at the Caps free agents and if any of them should return.

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