“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) goaltending over the course of the season:
That’s not to say, of course, that the Caps couldn’t upgrade the position.