Dueling Banjos
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Confirmed Signing with Link: [WSH] G Logan Thompson signs extension with the Capitals (6 years, $5.85M AAV)
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Osprey
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The Caps' last major goalie contract was of a similar size (5yrs x $5.25M) for a goalie fresh off of a Cup win (Kuemper) and they ended up getting rid of it less than two years later. This deal may look good now, but who knows if they'll still be happy with it in a few years.
Zirakzigil
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Kuemper is 3rd in GAA and 4th in save % and the Caps traded him for one of their best players, if it works out that bad so be it
hangman005
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Treat him well. treat him better than we did.
Osprey
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The Kings got one of their best players out of it, too, but you probably won't find many of their fans willing to acquire more players like Dubois because it happened to work out well for them.
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hangman005
Have I told you I miss Logan Thompson
Unfortunately for the rest of the board, that is 6 years of me reminding everyone, I miss Logan Thompson.
hangman005
Have I told you I miss Logan Thompson
Zirakzigil
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Vegas just hates goalies, coaches, prospects..... The salary cap......
And loves winning hockey games. As an anti-"rebuild through scorched earth" person, I both enjoy and envy how succesfull they have been with their ruthlesness,
They've had 6/7 seasons of solid playoff-hockey, with two SC finals and one cup. And will be adding another run this season. Thats a modern cap-era mini-dynasty that was built without a single top5 draft pick in hand. And theres no sight they are not gonna keep doing it forever.
I applaude.
Naaa , play them as a duo , Caps have a bad track record of burning out starters in the regular season , Carey , Kolzig , Holtby all did 70+ because mediocre backups , followed by playoff disappointment. 2018 Holtby played the least amount of regular season games in many years ,its 16-28 games to win the cup.
hangman005
Have I told you I miss Logan Thompson
I feel the Logan Thompsons situation is one where we failed to be as ruthlessly as we needed, the big reason Thompson wanted out is because we stuck him behind Hill, while he was wildly outplaying Hill, I know I was furious when they gave Hill the net halfway through the Dallas series, (can't imagine how LT felt) Thompson wasn't the problem, the rest of the team showing up was. Yeah Hill won a cup with us, but instead of trying to force lightning a bottle to happen again, I would happily have traded Hill to keep LT, would have made more sense cap wise as well.
That said I hope he continues to kick ass in Washington if for no other reason than I can continue with my smug "I told you so"
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This is interesting. I think Caps brass wants Charlie to get paid, he’s probably now out of our price range.
They should trade him. My guess is he still gets a lot of starts, so he can walk out of Washington a very rich man.
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They absolutely should not trade him. Who cares if he walks, the team is good this year and trading him makes them worse. Not to mention Shepard and Stevenson in Hershey are not close to being NHL-caliber players
Congrats to the Caps and Thompson. Good deal for both.
Thompson has a been a good goalie since 2021. He would have started in the cup-winning playoffs if not injured. No guarantee, but he was just as good as Hill, they still probably would have won.
This is Thompson's 1st great season, we'll see if he keeps it up, but even if he reverts to being a good goalie, it's a reasonable deal.
Last May-ish, I posted a few times, either on Sens Reddit, or Sens HFBoards that the Sens should try to trade for Thompson in the offseason, I considered him very good, and the cost would be low (2nd rounder?) and liked his low salary. He was my personal target. Didn't think he'd be this great, though.
He is only 27, the typical age goalies break through and reach their prime.
If only Team Canada had picked him, he's currently Canada's best goalie.
Thompson has a been a good goalie since 2021. He would have started in the cup-winning playoffs if not injured. No guarantee, but he was just as good as Hill, they still probably would have won.
This is Thompson's 1st great season, we'll see if he keeps it up, but even if he reverts to being a good goalie, it's a reasonable deal.
Last May-ish, I posted a few times, either on Sens Reddit, or Sens HFBoards that the Sens should try to trade for Thompson in the offseason, I considered him very good, and the cost would be low (2nd rounder?) and liked his low salary. He was my personal target. Didn't think he'd be this great, though.
He is only 27, the typical age goalies break through and reach their prime.
If only Team Canada had picked him, he's currently Canada's best goalie.
There's a case to be made that the Caps learned from the Kuemper example that if they sign a guy to term and it doesn't work out for them, they can deal the contract to someone for whom it makes more sense. In the end, that deal worked out for everyone and the team wasn't saddled with any kind of salary cap anchor. The Kuemper case study may give them more confidence to proceed, not less. When it didn't quite work out, it didn't cost them at all.
I think this is a good deal. Yes, he wasn't a top 10 draft pick or anything, but he's had enough miles the past years of being at worst a good starter and at best a top goalie in the league. The term is somewhat risky but his year has been so elite and they're paying him like a low end starter in a rising cap league. It's possible he falls off to a Jarry level but I doubt it. This isn't like Cal Petersen getting paid for a handful of good games, he's on his 4th year of having good numbers. At this point he is what he is, just a really good goalie. He was my #1 target for the Canes this offseason.
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.915 sv% over 130 career games (during a time when average sv% is .905 or less). 100 games played is typically a decent sample size for goalies, and hes got good stats over that number. If he was a former 2nd round pick I think a lot of people would look at him differently.
Curufinwe
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Good call. No team with an elite Russian goalie on a big deal has won a Cup lately.
Apart from those three Cups for Florida and Tampa.
A big ticket goalie can win in the cap era, but it has to be on a Florida team where there is no tax so they can get star players under market value to compensate
