Posts About "Vezina Trophy"
Bruins' Rask Has Strong Vezina Case
May 29th, 2020 With the NHL regular season officially complete, there are a number of things to look forward to as hockey fans eagerly prepare for the return of the game. Obviously, there are the Stanley Cup Playoffs, which will take on an unprecedented 24-team format this year that, for all of its backlash, is sure to be very exciting despite the...
Jets' Hellebuyck Deserves Vezina & Hart Consideration
March 8th, 2020 Here we are entering the second week of March and the Winnipeg Jets are in the fight of their life trying to earn a playoff spot. The fact we are still able to say those words is largely due to one man – goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. Related: Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck: From Fifth-Rounder to Shutout Leader Hellebuyck has been...
Bruins' Rask Having Vezina-Worthy Season
February 27th, 2020 Don't look now, but Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask is good. Very good. In fact, he has somewhat quietly made his way to the upper echelons of the leaderboard in just about all of the major netminder categories. So far in the 2019-20 season, Rask has only lost one regulation game at home. And that first home loss did not come...
Canucks' Markstrom Making a Case for Vezina and Hart Consideration
February 18th, 2020 Fresh off arguably the best goaltending performance of this year, it has become impossible to ignore the season that Jacob Markstrom is having. Although, many are still are. The Vancouver Canucks netminder’s 49-save shutout performance on Feb. 12 against the Chicago Blackhawks shattered several records, including the most saves by...
Lightning's Vasilevskiy Chasing Vezina Trophy Repeat
February 6th, 2020 Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy was the 2019 recipient of the Vezina Trophy, given annually to the NHL's best goalie, voted by the league's general managers. It was the first time Vasilevskiy won the award and the first time a Lightning goalie was honored with the trophy. Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei...
Will Frederik Andersen Get His Vezina Trophy in 2019-20?
August 20th, 2019 If you follow the Toronto Maple Leafs, you are immensely aware that Frederik Andersen is one heck of a goaltender. Annually saddled with heavy workloads as a member of the the team behind some suspect Leafs' blue lines in recent years, it's been widely argued that Andersen has been their team MVP, even while young guns such as Auston...
Oilers Goalie Cam Talbot - Bounce Back or Bust
September 2nd, 2018 The stakes for Oilers' goalie Cam Talbot are higher than Edmonton's Stantec Tower, which will be Canada's tallest building outside of Toronto when construction of the skyscraper wraps up this fall. And, if he hopes to appease the Oilers' rabid fanbase and silence his critics, he'll need to stand almost as tall. Coming off his worst...
Rinne Won, But Hellebuyck Deserved It
June 22nd, 2018 The glitz and glamour of the 2018 NHL Awards in Las Vegas are over, and a number of the league's top stars are going home — after hitting the Strip for a little carousing, no doubt — with some well-deserved hardware. One deserving man, however, is leaving empty-handed. That man is Winnipeg Jets' goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. He was...
Should John Gibson be a Vezina Finalist?
March 23rd, 2018 The Anaheim Ducks have had a roller-coaster season. As what seems to be the trend of the last few years, they start off extremely slow and pick things up around January when the playoff race begins. They are still in an uncertain position, though, with only a few games left to decide their fate. They have been plagued by injuries all...
Andersen: The Underrated Vezina Candidate
February 23rd, 2018 The Toronto Maple Leafs success this season can be attributed to one player, Frederik Andersen. Although Auston Matthews has led the way with timely goals and dominance in the offensive zone, Andersen has been the one to have elevated this team to be the third best team in the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference. This season,...
What About Bob?
January 23rd, 2017 The masked man who occupies the goal crease for the Columbus Blue Jackets is having a career year. Sergei Bobrovsky has returned to elite form, reminding us all of the Vezina Trophy-winning campaign in the 2012-13 season. Bobrovsky burst on the scene in Columbus as the Blue Jackets' new netminder for the lockout season of 2012-13. In...
Vezina for Dubnyk or Bobrovsky?
January 16th, 2017 With half of the 82-game schedule in the books, the chase for the Vezina Trophy looks to be a two goalie race. Looking at the statistics and the impact each has had on their squad, Minnesota Wild netminder Devan Dubnyk and the Columbus Blue Jackets' Sergei Bobrovsky have been equally phenomenal. Statistically Speaking When Dubnyk...
Quick and Kopitar Nominated for Individual NHL Awards
April 29th, 2016 On April 27, the general managers of the NHL named Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick one of the three finalists for the 2016 Vezina Trophy and the following day, the NHL announced that Kings forward Anze Kopitar has been named a finalist for the Selke Award. Quick Up for Vezina After Reaching Career Milestones The three Vezina...
