Former Hurricanes goalie Arturs Irbe has been hired by the Washington Capitals as their new goaltending coach, the team announced Thursday.

Irbe, who played 309 games over five seasons for the Hurricanes, still holds (for the moment) franchise records for consecutive starts (40), minutes played (17,815), wins (130) and shutouts (20), and while Cam Ward is probably no more than two seasons away from taking the last three, the first of those may stand for a long time.

This week's Tuesday Top Five in Talking Points is a direct follow-up to this week's Monday debate.

For whatever reason, whether it has been Arturs Irbe or Cam Ward or Kevin Weekes in net or Paul Maurice or Peter Laviolette behind the bench, the two-goalie system hasn’t been a huge success with the Hurricanes.

It worked in 2001-02 (Irbe and Tom Barrasso during the regular season, Irbe and Weekes in the playoffs), 2002-03 (Irbe and Weekes, although the Hurricanes finished dead last) and 2005-06 (Ward and Martin Gerber).

But more often, it doesn’t.

Read about the top five seldom-used or ill-fated backups here.

The readers have spoken! Here's the consensus All-Canes team as chosen by you (and roughly interpreted by me):

C Ron Francis
LW Sami Kapanen
RW Erik Cole
D Glen Wesley
D Aaron Ward
G Arturs Irbe