{"id":463669,"date":"2025-03-03T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=463669"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:56:04","slug":"washington-capitals-sign-another-goalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/03\/washington-capitals-sign-another-goalie\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Sign Another Goalie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/03\/nhl-predictions-march-3-ottawa-senators-vs-washington-capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a> have locked up the second part of their goalie tandem. News emerged on Monday morning that the Capitals have gotten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindgch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie Lindgren<\/a> signed<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/capitals\/news\/capitals-re-sign-charlie-lindgren\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to a new deal<\/a>. This pact is a three-year deal worth a total of $9 million. Lindgren&#8217;s deal has an average cap hit of $3 million per season and runs until the end of the 2027-28 season. Washington may have signed one goalie already. However, they nail down both parts of the duo with this move.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:hkwlaiajdqqwou7uzdtuy7qv\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lji4ldxxn32o\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreifkius3yi55vyttcom6n45m6ugcvxn245pxe3zlo7l3giy2cxuaza\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Capitals announce they&#39;ve signed goalie Charlie Lindgren to a three-year, $9 million contract extension.He was eligible to become an unrestricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:hkwlaiajdqqwou7uzdtuy7qv?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Gulitti (@tomgulittinhl.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:hkwlaiajdqqwou7uzdtuy7qv\/post\/3lji4ldxxn32o?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-03-03T14:04:20.634Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Washington Capitals Gets Charlie Lindgren Signed to New Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Lindgren has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/01\/nhl-rumours-latest-on-veteran-montreal-canadiens-forwards\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/02\/sundays-loss-forces-the-st-louis-blues-hand\/\" target=\"_self\">St Louis Blues<\/a> and the Capitals across his nine-year NHL career. The Lakeville, Minnesota native has a 13-10-3 mark with a 2.70 goals-against-average and a .896 save percentage. He also has a shutout this season for the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has a career mark of 66-49-16 with a 2.77 GAA and a .906 save percentage. Montreal originally signed him as an undrafted free agent after a standout career at St. Cloud State of the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also represented his native country on the international level. Lindgren was a member of the Team USA squad at the 2024 IIHF World Championships. The Americans finished fifth in that tournament and Lindgren amassed a 1-1 record with a 2.03 GAA.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the brother of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindgry01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Lindgren<\/a>, who was recently acquired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/01\/new-york-rangers-deal-defenceman-with-colorado-avalanche\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche.<\/a> It&#8217;s been a busy weekend for both brothers. However, this is a signing and not a trade.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>The Capitals have shored up their goalie situation it seems. Some were wondering what Lindgren&#8217;s future would be with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomplo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Logan Thompson<\/a> signing a deal. However, it seems that general manager Chris Patrick is going with a two-headed monster.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson may be getting the bulk of starts as of late. However, Lindgren has more than earned his keep as a steady backup. Lindgren may seemingly be the backup, but he can step up if Thompson does get hurt or needs a break.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has been playing well this season and goaltending his been a big part of that. Lindgren seems to be part of the plan for the near future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals have locked up the second part of their goalie tandem. News emerged on Monday morning that the Capitals have gotten Charlie Lindgren signed to a new deal. This pact is a three-year deal worth a total of $9 million. Lindgren&#8217;s deal has an average cap hit of $3 million per season and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":460741,"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":[453,8079,5294,6111],"class_list":["post-463669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-charlie-lindgren","tag-chris-patrick","tag-logan-thompson","tag-washington-capitals-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463669","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=463669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463670,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463669\/revisions\/463670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}