Olaf Kolzig not only cleaned out his locker today, he stripped the nameplate off it as well, declined to speak with reporters (for the first time since 1997), and didn't show up for the final team meeting.
OK, he's a prideful athlete who was the centerpiece of his team for a decade, and it can't be easy to cope with the erosion of your livelihood. And I guess he deserves some credit for not poisoning the well when his team traded for his replacement at the trade deadline this year. He just completely stopped speaking, which I suppose is better than sulking.
Between the trade deadline and the end of the season, during the Caps' Enos Slaughter-esque Mad Dash to the playoffs (during which, oddly, Pesky was holding Matty's balls), the Caps got bombed out of the building just one time: a 5-0 loss to the lottery-drafting Blackhawks, which was, not coincidentally, Kolzig's last start.
I'm certain the huge majority of Caps fans would like to see this resolved amicably and Kolzig return to the Caps as a backup, where he will remain for the rest of his career and the Earth will remain on its axis. However, this profoundly insane statement from Kolzig's agent indicates differently:
"The choice will be Olie's as to where he plays next year. But rest comfortably that there will be a multiplicity of options available to him."
A multiplicity of options?!? What the jolly terds are you talking about?
In the words of The Spirit of Truth, you fuckin' nincom-fuckin'-poop!
Here are Kolzig's options* for next year:
1. Get up.
2. Go back to sleep.
*For Homeland Security concerns, options exclude trafficking rubber dog crap from Hong Kong.
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I won't lie to you, I'd like to see Kolzig back with the Caps as Huet's
backup next season, but I don't know that Kolzig would do that. If he can find a team who will hand him the starters role, then more power to him. The guy is a class act and has given his entire all-star career to DC hockey. I wish him the absolute best.
To be honest though, I'm not that concerned with who will be the back up goalie for the Caps next season. The first order of business is to resign Huet, who is probably the number one free agent goalie on the market. If the Caps can't get that done then I'm not so sure they'll be taking the big step forward that everyone seems so certain they'll take next season. Hard to win without a great goalie. Just ask the Flyers.
Maybe he'll end up in Sweden like a certain goalie who learned how to drink the purple years ago...
Art Breeze? Now THAT's a name for an agent. As in, "Ollie's gonna Breeze on out of here."
There is no chance any team would sign him to be a starter. Zeee-ro. He's gonna be a backup no matter what, and the best option for him -- for many reasons, such as his kids, his charitable foundation, his professional opportunities after his career -- would be to stay put.
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