{"id":461585,"date":"2025-01-27T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=461585"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:33:23","slug":"washington-capitals-ink-goalie-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/27\/washington-capitals-ink-goalie-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Ink Goalie to Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/21\/nhl-predictions-jan-21-washington-capitals-vs-edmonton-oilers\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a> have made some news on this Monday afternoon. Word came down that goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomplo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Logan Thompson<\/a> signed a contract extension of six years worth $35.1 million. This deal has an average salary cap hit of $5.85 million per season. The contract runs until the end of the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Logan Thompson is signing a six-year, $35.1M contract extension with the Capitals, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FriedgeHNIC<\/a> \u270d\ufe0f <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GLnNHsn3Kq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GLnNHsn3Kq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1883965867651916287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Logan Thompson Signed to Multi-Year Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Thompson has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/26\/nhl-predictions-jan-26-florida-panthers-vs-vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> and the Capitals over his five-year NHL career. The 27-year-old is having a career season in his first campaign with the Capitals. He&#8217;s totaled a 22-2-3 record with a 2.09 goals-against-average and .925 save percentage. The Calgary native also has two shutouts so far in the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has a career mark of 78-34-14 with a GAA of 2.55 and .915 save percentage. He also has a racked up a career total of six shutouts. The veteran goalies has worked his way from the WHL, USports, the ECHL and AHL to become an NHL starter.<\/p>\n<p>He made his NHL debut in March 2021 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/15\/nhl-rumours-minnesota-wild-trade-deadline-plans\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>. Thompson was traded from Vegas in late June 2024 to get a shot at a starting spot with Washington. It seems that Thompson has taken the ball and ran with it.<\/p>\n<h3>What it Means<\/h3>\n<p>Thompson is getting rewarded for his great play. However, this does raise a question of what the team will do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindgch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie Lindgren<\/a>. Washington said that they <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/13\/nhl-rumours-washington-capitals-goalie-situation\/\" target=\"_self\">would love to keep both<\/a>. However, it could be hard to make the money work.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s great play has made people take notices. However, he was shockingly left off Team Canada&#8217;s roster for the upcoming Four Nations Tournament. He may have been left off the roster, but is making a statement with his great play.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has been a great story so far this season. Many feel the offence has been part of it, but the improved play in net has played a large hand in everything.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals have made some news on this Monday afternoon. Word came down that goalie Logan Thompson signed a contract extension of six years worth $35.1 million. This deal has an average salary cap hit of $5.85 million per season. The contract runs until the end of the 2030-31 season. Logan Thompson is signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":455696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4547,34,4548],"tags":[453,5294,6111],"class_list":["post-461585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-charlie-lindgren","tag-logan-thompson","tag-washington-capitals-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461590,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461585\/revisions\/461590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}