Washington Capitals are the NHL’s best at drafting and developing goalies

The Washington Capitals have done the best job of drafting and developing goalies in the past 15 years. What is the secret of their success?

Goaltender Braden Holtby led the Washington Capitals to the Stanley Cup in the 2017-18 season. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2008 draft by the Caps.

Holtby’s understudy this season, Ilya Samsonov, was drafted in the first round of the 2015 draft. It is not unusual for the Caps to have home-grown talent between the pipes.

In fact, only five goalies have played for the Caps in the past ten seasons that were not drafted by the team. In the past decade, each NHL team with the exception of Vegas, has played 782 regular season games. The Caps have…