The Narrative: Doing the Splits, Rushing and Dumping, and Literally Dogs

1. Doing the Splits

Let’s be perfectly clear from the jump: Logan Thompson is not the reason the Caps lost Games 3 and 4.

With that out of the way, let’s look at Thompson’s home/road splits through nine playoff games this season. At Capital One Arena, Thompson is 4-1 with a sparkling .954 save percentage and 1.38 goals against average, saving an almost ludicrous 10.6 goals above expectation, more than two per game (per Evolving-Hockey); on the road, he’s gone 1-3/.872/3.87 and has yielded 4.5 goals above expectations (more than one per game, on average). In each of his home games, he’s been on the right side of that metric; in each road game, he’s been on the wrong side (in their one road…