{"id":179022,"date":"2025-09-30T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179022\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:54:12","slug":"goalie-notes-dostal-vasilevskiy-hellebuyck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179022\/","title":{"rendered":"Goalie Notes: Dostal, Vasilevskiy, Hellebuyck"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks announced today<\/a> that young starting netminder Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dost\u00e1l <\/a>will be day-to-day with a lower-body injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old is a major key for the Ducks this season, fresh off signing a five-year contract in July. Having made additional offseason moves that affirm the team is pushing for a step forward, much will ride on Dost\u00e1l and his ability to fill the void left by stalwart John Gibson<\/a>, who was finally dealt over the summer. Anaheim has steadily developed the talented goaltender, with a workload that has gradually increased year by year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, with Gibson moving on, Dostal is the undisputed #1, with a fellow Czech, veteran Petr Mr\u00e1zek<\/a> in waiting. The Ducks have another notable former Red Wing in their goaltender room as well, in Ville Husso<\/a>. Yet the 30-year-old, who once flashed serious potential, is likely set to hold things down for AHL San Diego, barring any setbacks from Dost\u00e1l.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional goaltender notes:<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Tampa Bay Head Coach Jon Cooper<\/a> told Beat Writer Benjamin Pierce<\/a> that star Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> returned to the ice today and is expected to be with the main group tomorrow. Bleacher Report Open Ice added<\/a> that the Russian netminder will likely be ready for the Lightning\u2019s season opener on October 9th. As previously noted<\/a>, the team has been mostly silent on Vasilevskiy\u2019s status, calling it \u201cplayer management\u201d.\u00a0
\nVasilevskiy is not the only superstar goaltender fighting to be ready for the season to begin. As reported by Murat Ates of The Athletic<\/a>, Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> left practice \u201cnot feeling right\u201d. According to Head Coach Scott Arniel<\/a>, there is uncertainty whether the two-time reigning Vezina winner plays tomorrow. With rosters being finalized, eyes will be on the status of each starter, as well as Husso, Eric Comrie<\/a>, and Brandon Halverson<\/a>, who each remain on their team\u2019s respective rosters as third options in net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks announced today that young starting netminder Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dost\u00e1l will be day-to-day with a lower-body injury.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[766,84446,49,48,90908,5718,6849,448,82,745,449],"class_list":{"0":"post-179022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-andrei-vasilevskiy","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-lukas-dostal","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}