{"id":637080,"date":"2026-04-29T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637080\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:42:09","slug":"islanders-sorokin-bruins-swayman-lightnings-vasilevskiy-up-for-vezina-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637080\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders&#8217; Sorokin, Bruins&#8217; Swayman, Lightning&#8217;s Vasilevskiy up for Vezina Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vezina Trophy is leaving Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Of the three, only Vasilevskiy has taken home the title of top goalie in the past, having won the award in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old appeared in 58 games for the Lightning this season, placing third in the NHL with a .912 save percentage and second with a 2.31 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>He also posted two shutouts and had 39 wins, tied for the second-most of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Sorokin, 30, registered a .906 save percentage and 2.68 GAA over 55 games with the Islanders, who missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Swayman, 27, enjoyed a bounceback season with the Bruins, recording a .908 save percentage and 2.69 GAA as he led Boston back into the post-season, where it currently trails the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 in their first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>The Vezina Trophy is voted on by general managers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vezina Trophy is leaving Winnipeg. Of the three, only Vasilevskiy has taken home the title of top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-637080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637080","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=637080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}