{"id":88284,"date":"2020-10-09T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=88284"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:19:06","slug":"henrik-lundqvist-signs-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/09\/henrik-lundqvist-signs-washington-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrik Lundqvist Signs With The Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a> have announced they have signed goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundqhe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Lundqvist<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year deal worth $1.5 million<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If, as expected, the one-year deal is $1.5M, it would be fitting. That would make Lundqvist \u201cwhole\u201d on $4.5M salary he was scheduled to get for 20-21. $3M of it would be in his buyout from the Rangers (paid out over two years) but $1.5M would top him back up to $4.5M total.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/1314570073428946952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Henrik Lundqvist Signs With Washington<\/h2>\n<p>It was an end of an era when the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> bought out Henrik Lundqvist a little over a week ago. Lundqvist spent 15 seasons with the Rangers after being drafted 205 overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. &#8220;King Henrik&#8221; as he was known as was the face of the franchise for so long and. Lundqvist is the sixth winningest goaltender in NHL history with a 459-310-96 record. For his career, he appeared in 887 games starting 871 games with a 2.43 goals-against-average and a .918 save percentage. In addition, he has 64 career shutouts along with 61 shutouts in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Lundqvist won the Vezina Trophy in the 2011-12 season as he took the Rangers to the Eastern Conference Final. That season Lundqvist went 39-18-5 with a .930 save percentage and a ridiculous 1.97 goals-against-average. He appeared in the Stanley Cup Final once in 2014 with the Rangers.<\/p>\n<h3>Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>This is a great signing for the Capitals. Lundqvist is still capable of being a backup goaltender in the league. Though his numbers dipped this past season with the Rangers, he still wants to play and will have something to prove. Especially on a short-term deal. The Capitals have a young goaltender in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/samsoil01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ilya Samsonov<\/a><\/strong>, as they move on from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/holtbbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Braden Holtby<\/a><\/strong>. Samsonov is the starting goaltender, but this will be his first full season at that position.\u00a0 Bringing in a backup like Lundqvist will help this kid&#8217;s development. Not to mention, help him understand what it takes to be a starting goalie night in and night out. Plus Lundqvist knows he will be the backup but could see a lot of action especially if the schedule is condensed next season.<\/p>\n<p>Lundqvist is also going to a team that has a chance to win the Stanley Cup. The Capitals are still one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. 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That would make Lundqvist \u201cwhole\u201d on $4.5M salary he was scheduled to get for 20-21. $3M of it would be in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":88292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[5548,75],"class_list":["post-88284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-hnerik-lundqvist","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88284","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\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}