GM George McPhee went out this offseason and signed Joel Ward, Jeff Halpern and Roman Hamrlik, traded for Troy Brouwer and re-signed Brooks Laich, adding an element of sandpaper to his team without taking away from its offensive core. What's more, he added a top-10 netminder in Tomas Vokoun for a paltry $1.5 million for the 2011-12 season. Excuses are running out in Caps-land.
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Is there some error with the Mike Weaver numbers? Should it be 9.5 and 4.7? The numbers as they are now seem very high...
Ya you're right. Unless Mike Weaver won the Hart trophy last year and I was unaware.