You think I have been the only one that has seen Scott Murray have very little positive results with the goalies he's worked with? Many others on this board have noticed it too, for years. Lindgren is exactly like Grubauer, who was the same in regard to adjusting his game to whomever his goalies coaches were. Some goalies are very coachable and others only work well with certain goalie coaches. Holtby reach his peak being a 4th round pick, but won a Vezina, Jennings and a Cup because of Mitch Korn! Kuemper, had some Vezina type seasons but fell short because of injury and he did it with some average teams. He also won a Cup like Holtby, but was very arguably not the reason the Avs won it and his numbers for that year reflect that.
Turns out 77 was playing with a broken hand. So i cut him some slack. A warrior for sure
Following up on that. Hershey's goalie coach, Juha Lehtola, has done more in 2 seasons being the Bears goalie coach than what Scott Murray did in his time there when Mitch Korn was the Caps full-time goalie coach.
Love Oshie. I think he will be back another year. Sad how this game turned out for him.
Too bad the $2 million in incentives weren’t for ‘Scoring 5 goals in the season’
Yeah really. I mean at the end of the day the guy was paid an extra 100K for every game he was dressed for >= 10 games. I'd take that f***ing bonus all day long just for showing up to work, which is basically all Patches did. Especially if you consider our roster is so pathetic that he played the way he did and still couldn't even lose his spot. Was he even healthy scratched ONCE when he became available after missing first 2-3 months of the season??
Stash him on IR for the reg season, Stone/Kucherov style. Activate him for playoffs. I’m just joking, but the reality is, even if he does come back, i’d be surprised if he played even 30 games, just due to the recurring injuries
I love Oshie's heart, but next season he will be on LTIR for long stretches of the season. He should really retire.
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Caps had extremely limited cap space last offseason and have 13+M to play with next year (was 15m until you account for the bonus overage). It was effectively a 1x4mil deal spread over two seasons.
Right. I keep saying it, but I was always sure and still am that BMac expected to trade Patches at the deadline. But Max opted to stay with the Caps rather than take what was surely his last shot at a Cup. What a loser!
Agreed it was mentioned at the time of the signing. I don’t understand why he didn’t want to go play for a contender for a couple months. Maybe he wanted to collect his 4 mil and go golfing. Kinda played like it
