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Found August 13, 2009 on MVN:

PLAYERS: Jose Theodore, Jeff Halpern
TEAMS: Washington Capitals, Tampa Bay Lightning

HC Bruce Boudreau announced that coming into Camp, Jose Theodore is the number one goalie. Joyous. A few minutes after Bruce Boudreau named him the Caps' No. 1 goalie entering training camp, Jose Theodore didn't sound shocked when his coach's comments were relayed to him, despite being replaced in net by rookie Semyon Varlamov one game into last year's playoffs."Like I said last year at the end of the playoffs, now there's no doubt that Varly and [Michal] Neuvirth are the goalies of the future. They are great goalies," Theodore said at KCI, where he faced shots from Jeff Halpern, Stephen Werner and other. "But for myself, if you look at the season, out of 82 games I still played [57] and had a pretty good record and was pretty consistent toward the end." Likely this comment is more to foster competition, strong competition in Camp. Am I surprised? No. But, if by November, Theo is still starting, then I will be stunned. Thing is, do we r...

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