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Capitals: Top 10 greatest goalies of all-time

By Michael Marzzacco

Olaf Kolzig, Washington Capitals (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
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Jose Theodore, Washington Capitals (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)
Jose Theodore, Washington Capitals (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images) /

#8 Jose Theodore

Jose Theodore comes in at eighth on our list. He spent two seasons with the Capitals in 2008-09 and 2009-10. His first season saw him go 32-17-5 with a 2.87 goals-against average and a .900 save percentage. The next year Theodore went 30-7-7 with a 2.81 GAA and a .911 save percentage in the year the Caps took home the Presidents’ Trophy with the league’s best record.

Those two seasons saw Theodore play a combined 104 games going 62-24-12. He signed a two-year nine million contract in the summer of 2008 and the hope was signing him was going to help address the netminding issue and deliver Washington a Stanley Cup.

That never panned out but Theodore turned out to be a good mentor to Michal Neuvirth and Semyon Varlamov. During the 2009-10 season, Theodore pledged money to the Saves for Kids program to benefit the National Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s National Medical Center for each save, win and shutout Neuvirth recorded.

When the season ended he was able to present the program with a check worth $35,000 and for that he was awarded the Masterton Trophy for his perseverence and dedication to the game of hockey.

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