{"id":251243,"date":"2026-04-29T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:27:29","slug":"andrei-vasilevskiy-voted-vezina-trophy-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251243\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Vasilevskiy voted Vezina Trophy finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (April 29, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ilya Sorokin\u00a0of the New York\u00a0Islanders,\u00a0Jeremy Swayman\u00a0of the Boston\u00a0Bruins\u00a0and\u00a0Andrei Vasilevskiy\u00a0of the Tampa Bay\u00a0Lightning\u00a0are the three finalists for the 2025-26\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/email.pr-email.nhl.com\/c\/eJw0zE1uwyAUBODTwC4RPPO7YJEuLPUYD_MsU2FsAU2Vnr6Kpe4-zWgmBZfkMhlOQVprlXVKCr4FbwwI6cgbGTGtKFcEtBi9N3pyiXgOIMAIBV4aIaS46zVarXWMbqVpMoYpcbYb7ZjLvW7lvhw7L2Eb4-xsejCYGcyNlqOl_t8zmPEHW-oM5tGOc8v05pN-c8Xblbx4C1_lVStTAncsmbBRxet9hMe15iN8tO9c3_jsBWui1vkzwF8AAAD___K2SrQ\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/email.pr-email.nhl.com\/c\/eJw0zE1uwyAUBODTwC4RPPO7YJEuLPUYD_MsU2FsAU2Vnr6Kpe4-zWgmBZfkMhlOQVprlXVKCr4FbwwI6cgbGTGtKFcEtBi9N3pyiXgOIMAIBV4aIaS46zVarXWMbqVpMoYpcbYb7ZjLvW7lvhw7L2Eb4-xsejCYGcyNlqOl_t8zmPEHW-oM5tGOc8v05pN-c8Xblbx4C1_lVStTAncsmbBRxet9hMe15iN8tO9c3_jsBWui1vkzwF8AAAD___K2SrQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vezina Trophy<\/a>, awarded \u201cto the goaltender adjudged to be the best at his position,\u201d the National Hockey League announced today.<\/p>\n<p>NHL general managers submitted ballots for the Vezina Trophy at the conclusion of the regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Lightning<br \/>Vasilevskiy, aided by an 18-game point streak from Dec. 20 \u2013 Feb. 25 (17-0-1), topped the NHL with 39 victories in 58 starts (39-15-4, 2.31 GAA, .912 SV%, 2 SO) to guide the\u00a0Lightning\u00a0to their ninth consecutive postseason appearance \u2013 tied for the longest current run in the League. He became\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/email.pr-email.nhl.com\/c\/eJxEjj1uxCAUhE8DHRZg_rag2BSWcoxn_Bw7wmA92Kxy-8iRVtvNfF8xs8SwqDQ6jlF5740PRkm-RePD7Gxw1oXVy-TAG7XetFPJBlQh8T1qqZ00-qaclEoOdp29tXaew4rj6Bwz8iSBB-x5KFseUj14jlvvZ2PjnemJ6YkwVVray78J09NXhdyxLEjiDZ97EWeGjvC46lFbF6MUlcRRCcWlG0KrpXGK3_m3FGYkHJB3BMIC_y96vD-BlsZ7_KDHXq7w2TJcW43_RP0XAAD___C3WBo\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/email.pr-email.nhl.com\/c\/eJxEjj1uxCAUhE8DHRZg_rag2BSWcoxn_Bw7wmA92Kxy-8iRVtvNfF8xs8SwqDQ6jlF5740PRkm-RePD7Gxw1oXVy-TAG7XetFPJBlQh8T1qqZ00-qaclEoOdp29tXaew4rj6Bwz8iSBB-x5KFseUj14jlvvZ2PjnemJ6YkwVVray78J09NXhdyxLEjiDZ97EWeGjvC46lFbF6MUlcRRCcWlG0KrpXGK3_m3FGYkHJB3BMIC_y96vD-BlsZ7_KDHXq7w2TJcW43_RP0XAAD___C3WBo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the sixth goaltender in NHL history<\/a>\u00a0to post at least nine 30-win seasons, with his active run of nine straight such campaigns the second-longest in League history behind only\u00a0Martin Brodeur\u00a0(12 from 1995-96 through 2007-08). Vasilevskiy, the 19th overall selection in the 2012 NHL Draft, additionally placed among the 2025-26 League leaders in games allowing two or fewer goals (t-1st; 35), goals-against average (2nd; 2.31), save percentage (3rd; .912), starts (t-3rd; 58), minutes played (4th; 3,430:45), high-danger save percentage (7th; .844), mid-range save percentage (7th; .912) and saves (10th; 1,353). The 31-year-old Vasilevskiy is a Vezina Trophy finalist for the sixth time, a total reached by just three other goaltenders under the current format (since 1981-82): Brodeur (9x),\u00a0Patrick Roy\u00a0(7x) and\u00a0Dominik Hasek\u00a0(6x). Vasilevskiy is looking for his second win, after topping voting in 2018-19, placing second in 2024-25 and 2020-21, and finishing third in 2019-20 and 2017-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (April 29, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ilya Sorokin\u00a0of the New York\u00a0Islanders,\u00a0Jeremy Swayman\u00a0of the Boston\u00a0Bruins\u00a0and\u00a0Andrei Vasilevskiy\u00a0of the Tampa Bay\u00a0Lightning\u00a0are the three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-251243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}