During the grueling NHL season, hockey players travel a lot and don't have time for certain aspects of a healthy physical relationship with their significant others. Capitals forward Brooks Laich can't even rely on his phone to get him through the rigorous grind.

Former "Dancing with the Stars" champion Julianne Hough is engaged to the Washington winger, but she admitted there's one thing she can't perform with him: phone sex.

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"I'm really bad at it," Hough said, according to Page Six. "I'll get halfway through and start laughing. It's an art."

Hough, 27, looks ravishing on the February issue of Cosmopolitan, but she also confessed that she could use some help in getting intimate on the phone.

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"I applaud people who are good at it," she said. "They need to come and help me keep a straight face."

Despite her inability to perform on the phone, Laich, 31, proposed to the dancer last August. The two have been a couple since February 2014.

Laich, who plays a fourth-line role for the first-place Capitals (29-7-3, 61 points), doesn't do much scoring on the ice either. The forward has one goal and four assists and is a minus-5 this season for Washington.

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