“He’s still very agile, very powerful,” Boucher said. “He’s imposing in the net, too. Just because of his size (6-foot-4, 223 pounds), he takes up so much net, I think he’s intimidating to a lot of shooters. I think he gets in the heads of a lot of teams. They know that when he gets going that he’s tough to beat, and he’s got the big-game experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He was fortunate. He was able to get a rest during the Olympic break when other people were playing. He was able to get some rest. And who knows what that’ll do for him here, come playoff time.”<\/p>\n
Vasilevskiy is a two-time Stanley Cup winner (2020, 2021) and has been to the Cup Final two other times (2015, 2022). He also was voted the Vezina winner in 2018-19. Winning it again would make him the third non-North America born goalie to win it multiple times, joining Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a> (two) and Dominik Hasek<\/a> (six).<\/p>\n “There’s a lot of teams that would that would die to have a goaltender like that in their organization for 12 to 15 years,” Boucher said. “The Lightning are very lucky.”<\/p>\n Voting totals (points awarded on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis): Andrei Vasilevskiy, Lightning, 75 points (14 first-place votes); Ilya Sorokin, Islanders 49 (2); Jeremy Swayman, Bruins, 35; Scott Wedgewood<\/a>, Colorado Avalanche, 33; Logan Thompson<\/a>, Washington Capitals, 21; Jake Oettinger<\/a>, Dallas Stars, 13; Igor Shesterkin<\/a>, New York Rangers, 10; Brandon Bussi<\/a>, Carolina Hurricanes, 3; Filip Gustavsson<\/a>, Minnesota Wild, 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“He’s still very agile, very powerful,” Boucher said. “He’s imposing in the net, too. Just because of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-610440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}