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It took us at least 20 games to change when [former coach] Dale [Hunter] to get kind of in grasp with the new system. And without training camp, they were already a step behind, I think, because new coach, and he’s got to evaluate all the players and you don’t really have much time for that when you have a five- or six-day training camp.

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—	Former Cap Tomas Vokoun to Brian McNally

Tomas Vokoun was dialed in like a transcendental freak. He was sensing puck vibrations on the breeze or something. - Vokoun Smites Foes: Caps beat Panthers 4-0, Regain SE Lead

Tomas Vokoun with Ryan Miller hair, a 2-minute photoshop by Peter Hassett

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Vokoun and Neuvirth currently have the same inherent “save skills” as their post-lockout averages suggest, but [they] have merely gone through two simultaneous slumps.

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—	Neil Greenberg, who says our goalies will get better.

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When George McPhee swooped in and signed free agent goalie Tomas Vokoun for a couple bucks and Alex Ovechkin’s now useless stockpile of CCM sticks,…