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ITR: Logan Thompson’s Six-Year Extension with Washington Capitals
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Jan 31, 2025
The Washington Capitals acquired Logan Thompson from the Vegas Golden Knights over the Summer; little did they know he'd be a key to success. Washington has signed Thompson to a six-year contract extension with an AAV of $5.85m. Hear what Chris and Conrad think about the signing and its impact on the market or the future of the Capitals. Washington Capitals, Vegas Golden Knights, Logan Thompson, Darcy Duemper, Inside The Rink
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so that's kind of my thoughts on that
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another contract extension happened
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today too and that was Logan Thompson
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six years or 5.85
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million Chris what are your thoughts on
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it I mean the way he's playing this year
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that's a fantastic deal and we talked
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about this before we logged in so I
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started crunching numbers and I didn't
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realize he's 222 and three this year
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with a 2.09 goals against average and a
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925 save
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percentage his last loss was in a relief
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outing on January 10th and that was an
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overtime his last regulation loss was
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December
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17th in his last five games he's
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undefeated with two shutouts a 0.79
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goals against average and a 9.69 save
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percentage in those five games there's a
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reason and we talked about the move that
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they made aside of him this off season
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but there's a reason the capitals are
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you know the top team in the Metro right
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now and then one of the top teams in the
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Eastern Conference and it's the way that
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Logan Thompson's been playing in net for
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them they finally got their goaly you
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know and they looked like a genius
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trading Darcy keer and getting Pier Luke
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duah and then adding Thompson I'm yeah
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we talked about that y I mean they just
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they found a piece that they need needed
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I mean it seems like I don't want to get
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carried away with the with the comment
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but they got it seems like so far
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they've got their goalie that they've
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been lacking since hopei
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left and you know we talked about it he
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was expected to be the guy in Vegas they
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end up going with Hill and he found his
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home he seems
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comfortable and it's a steal for
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Washington if he can keep keep this play
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up it's an absolute steal it's highway
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robbery that he's on a contract under $6
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million but I think that was also him
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going off of what he's done and how
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steady he's been and saying
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hey he probably said I want seven and
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they said okay we want to pay you 5.5
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and they maybe they like I'm I'm just
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throwing this out here by the way maybe
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he actually started at 6.5 they started
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at 5.5 and then they kind of met at
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5.85 it's like we weren't in
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negotiations but
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also negotiations happen at I think
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that's a good realistic number long term
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for Thompson and he gets six years of
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stability like he's he's making
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$775,000 this year M I think a lot of
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people forget that when it comes to
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contracts
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and who knows maybe it was a case of
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they went out and they had a lot of
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confidence that Thompson could be the
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guy because Vegas he was supposed to be
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the guy in Vegas and Aiden Hill came in
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out of nowhere seemingly came out of
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nowhere and stole the
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show I wouldn't be surprised if
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Washington thought Ling GRE was going to
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be the guy and then they saw Thompson
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after the first month of the season and
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that's when things changed
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maybe and yeah no Logan Thompson I told
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the story last week and he gets traded
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and then 15 minutes later at the draft
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he's got to go to a
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signing
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so it was it's it's interesting to see
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these things
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and yeah speaking of uh contracts Tony
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d'angel was back in the
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NHL he was terminated in the KHL not too
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long ago and then Lou
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larell signs him to a a one-year league
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minimum
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contract now it came out that he left
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the KHL for family reasons personal
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reasons and so I was I was thinking okay
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maybe he's going to sit out of and not
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play for a couple of months because
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maybe he has something to figure out
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out or maybe he just used personal
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reasons as an excuse to get out and like
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I said who knows we're not there we're
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not in the situation but
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also that was very soon after he left
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the KHL he gets that deal with the
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island
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