As you may have heard, the Caps on Monday re-signed Logan Thompson, their now-goalie of the future (and recent past and literal present, as he’s slated to start tonight). Thompson has been staggeringly good of late, which may color some perception of the new deal, but with the Caps’ next window for contention seemingly opening earlier than expected, a rising cap and the state of the goalie market, the team opted for stability at the most important position on the ice.
Reasonable minds may differ on the value that the deal represents – a debate that won’t be settled for quite some time, but will undoubtedly be argued ad nauseum between now and then – and whether the team bet on the right horse in their two-man rotating goalie stable, but those are debates for other times and places (or the comments to this post, if the spirit moves you).