The Washington Capitals season is inching closer and this week NHL.com released their goalies list with Charlie Lindgren being ranked too high.
This list comes from the NHL.com writers but Tom Gulitti does write some good insight on the matter:
"I had Lindgren 10th on my list after he supplanted Darcy Kuemper as the league's number one goalie and one of the main reasons they qualified for the playoffs as the second wild card in the Eastern Conference last season. Lindgren's emergence led to Kuemper being traded to the Los Angeles Kings for center Pierre-Luc Dubois during the offseason. The 30-year-old established NHL career highs in games (50), wins (25-16-7) and shutouts (tied for the League lead with six), with a 2.67 goals against average and .911 save percentage. With Washington having a slim margin to reach the playoffs, Lindgren started 19 of its final 22 regular season games and was 12-6-2 with a 2.39 goals against average, .919 save percentage and three shutouts."
- Tom Gulitti/NHL.com
Also some more on Martin Fehervary who is out of the Slovak Olympic qualifying lineup from Derek O'Brien of The Hockey News international:
"I already announced before the meeting that I am not completely healthy from a physical point of vieew and that I'd have to see how it goes it. We finally concluded that it would be better for me to rest. I am not ready for a full game load. "
- Martin Fehervary to The Hockey News
Fehervary as we remember missed 16 Caps games in February and March in what was termed a lower body injury but returned to play at the end of the regular season, the playoffs, and the IIHF World Championship for Slovakia. Fehervary would continue saying
"I am very sorry. I wanted to play, it's a shame. On the other hand, I have to look to the future 0 the season in the NHL is long and demanding. I'd rather have the injury treated properly than worry about it for a whole year. It continues to be true that when I can come to the national team and I am healthy, I will always come."
- Martin Fehervary
In much more positive news the Nick Jensen family helped raise $170,000 for Duchenne Muscualr Dystrophy in an event held by the NHLPA:
"We had a short time crunch to get this all set. We found the golf course in June, so planning the event, including getting the guys out, was a bit hectic. But we were able to pull it off and it turned out great."
- Nick Jensen to Chris Loman of NHL.com
