In the Caps Crease: The Case for Standing Pat

Photo by Steven Ryan/NHLI via Getty Images“Washington is the team that most desperately needs a goaltending upgrade.”

That comes from The Athletic’s Eric Duhatschek, writing Monday from a world in which the Boston Bruins (among others) apparently don’t exist.

Not only are the Caps not the team most desperately in need of a goaltending upgrade prior to the March 21 trade deadline, there’s a very real question of whether they’re in need of an upgrade at all, which is a bit of a revelation given the season(s)-long angst over the position in this space and elsewhere.

The reality is that the Caps, as we discussed last week, have been getting above-average (or, more precisely, above-expected)…