He passed on buying the Capitals. His wife changed his mind.

Could you imagine when you first got into this that you're on this floor with three teams?

Um, no. And

I was a season ticket holder before I owned the teams for the caps. In fact,

my son and I, we would come to hockey games.

and the caps the 1999 went to the Stanley Cup finals.

And the first round of the playoffs, one of the players broke a stick,

and the guy behind the bench reached over and gave Zach the broken stick.

It kind of ignited some passion and when somebody I was approached to buy the team, I passed.

It it just doesn't seem like the right time. Yeah. And my wife said, well, you got this list of 101 things to do before you die. And on my list was own a team, win a championship.

What if you get 99 of the 101 things done? How are you feeling?

I woke up the next morning and I said, you know, this is why I love you. Um, yeah, I got to buy the team.

And you know, the security personnel who gave him that stick still works here.

Yeah.

and has known me now for 25 years.

Yep.