Jose Theodore: Not Good Enough

Oh my friend, what could I do?  I just came home to bury you.  The road is long, the road is rough.  You’re in my heart, that’s not enough.  -Emmylou Harris

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Washington Capitals goalie coach Dave Prior just said, “The goalie often gets more credit than he deserves and more blame than he deserves in this league.”  I say poppycock!  I say in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, you’re only as good as your goalie.  The Capitals goalie isn’t very good.  I don’t care if the Caps have the best player on the planet.  The rootinest tootenist gunslinger in the East.  I don’t care that this is Alexander Ovechkin’s world and everybody else is just skating in it.  I don’t care what they say about us anyway.  I don’t care ’bout that.   

I don’t care because Jose Theodore cannot stop anything.   He cannot stop it in a house.  He cannot stop it with a mouse.   He cannot stop it here or there.   He cannot stop it anywhere.  Jose Theodore ranked 36th this season in goals against average.  That is the worst of any of the eight Eastern Conference starting goalies in these here playoffs.  Theodore ranked 40th in save percentage and he ranked 25th in shutouts. 

That’s no way to win hockey games.  It’s certainly no way to win playoff hockey games.  It may be fine and dandy for the regular season, but this ain’t the regular season.  This is growed folks hockey.  Not for the feint of heart.  Win or go home!  With Jose Theodore between the pipes, the Caps are going home.

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

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