Confirmed Trade: [WSH/VGK] Logan Thompson for 2024 3rd (83OA) and 2025 3rd

[hangman005]

Why did Vegas get rid of their number one goalie?. They honestly don’t believe that Adin Hill is a starter do they?

What ever managements plan is.... I'm not seeing it. I'd have kept LT over Hill, especially taking the cap into consideration.

 

[Pia8988]

He wanted out. McCrimmon has known him a long time. Did him a favor

 

[BelovedIsles]

Awkward....

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807092465213813132

Well Vegas is known to be cutthroat.

 

[ManByng]

Win for Washington !!

 

[Mohar Ikram]

What ever managements plan is.... I'm not seeing it. I'd have kept LT over Hill, especially taking the cap into consideration.

Their stats almost similar in numbers but Adin Hill has stronger cases for him (They won them the cup)

Thompson: 46 RS games, 4 Playoffs games, (0.908 SV%/2.7 GAA) (0.921 SV%/2.35 GAA)
Hill: 35 RS games, 3 Playoffs games, (0.909 SV%/2.71 GAA) (0.932 SV%/1.7 GAA)

Hill is still better than Thompson in playoffs (he maintained his performance from cup winning year). Painful but reasonable reason is him over Thompson.

 

[bossram]

He wanted out. McCrimmon has known him a long time. Did him a favor

Has to be the reason. No other real rationale for Vegas, who needs to create more cap space, to trade a serviceable 1B goalie making...less than league minimum.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Worth the roll of the dice given the price.

Now WSH's goaltending tandem is 2 right handed catchers, wonder if that's happened before.

Fuhr and Puppa were both on Toronto around the same time in the early 90's but I don't know if they ever crossed.

Also feel like maybe Jablonski backed up Theodore in Montreal at one point?

 

[Kalopsia]

Worth the roll of the dice given the price.

Now WSH's goaltending tandem is 2 right handed catchers, wonder if that's happened before.

The last team to have two right handed catchers as their primary tandem was Columbus, who had Steve Mason and Matheiu Garon as their duo from 2009-11. Garon also backed up with Jose Theodore on the Habs in 03-04 (Garon also backed up Theodore from 00-03, but he was the secondary backup behind lefty Jeff Hackett each year so I'm not counting them). So it's happened twice this millennium for three total seasons. We're at kind of a low-point for RH goalies right now with only three getting regular playing time last season (other being Vejmalka), so it's surprising to see another RH tandem pop up now.

 

[hangman005]

Ctrl + Z,

Already proving to be a stupid move.

 

[BallardEra]

2.09 GAA and .925 SV%.

Will be tougher for the Caps to sign him now.

 

[eojsmada]

2.09 GAA and .925 SV%.

Will be tougher for the Caps to sign him now.

They'll have 8.5 from Mangiapane/Eller and Bear's dead cap, plus whatever the Cap goes up by. But they also need to figure out Chychrun. There are some moves they could make, but there will definitely be some hard decisions.

 

[stephenball]

I think they’ll definitely be able to re-sign him and Chychrun (Dowd needs a new contract as well if they decide to keep him). If they need to clear some space I could see Milano and/or TVR being potential moving pieces. Then next offseason when it comes time to re-sign some other guys you have Ovechkin coming off the books. The Caps seem to be in an okay cap position, helped by some major value contacts in Protas and Strome.

 

[Silky mitts]

2.09 GAA and .925 SV%.

Will be tougher for the Caps to sign him now.

$29M of cap room with the top 6 and 5 D signed, it’ll be interesting if anyone gets extended during Four Nations