Who is capitals goalie

Yesterday I mentioned that Samsonov will have a lot to prove this season. In the end, both players will enter the summer as restricted free agents and General Manager Brian MacLellan will have a decision to make on who will backstop the Caps in the years to come. Want your voice heard? Join the Stars And Sticks team!

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Shoulder: IR. Hathaway Garnet Hathaway. Leason Brett Leason. Oshie Lower Body: IR. Capitals' Dmitry Orlov: Lights lamp Thursday. Irwin Matt Irwin. Capitals' John Carlson: Lights lamp on power play. Schultz Justin Schultz. Cholowski Dennis Cholowski. Capitals' Vitek Vanecek: Sidelined with undisclosed issue. Undisclosed: Expected to be out until at least Nov His size, skill and athleticism make him a potential NHL starter, but the inconsistency on and off the ice is a concern.

Vanecek is a fine backup, but I just do not see him as a starter at the NHL level. Samsonov is going to decide the answer to this question by what he does on and off the ice. I know that part of why he only got a one-year contract was the team's cap situation. In another year, he can negotiate for a bigger contract. Having said that, this is also very much a prove-it deal. By Peter Hassett 5 Comments. Caps lose. The starting goalies were Sergei Bobrovsky and Ilya Samsonov. Except Samsonov missed the start of the game due to undisclosed reasons, so Vanecek played the first two minutes.

And then Bobrovsky, who was superb in the first period, left mysteriously before the second period, citing an upper-body injury.

Then Samsonov appeared to take himself out of the game after the Montour goal. It honestly became more of a stress test on goalie redundancy, but if we look at it as a systems-play benchmark, it was great!

John Carlson had an abysmal first period, on ice and somewhat responsible for both Panthers goals and hardly getting a peep at the offensive zone.