2021 NHL Award Watch: Evaluating the Vezina Race
This is the second part of a five-part series examining the award races for the major awards (Hart, Selke, Calder, Vezina & Norris) as the season comes to a close.…
Vezina Trophy
Predators’ Saros Is Undeniably a Vezina Trophy Contender
It’s still hard to believe that the Nashville Predators are one win — or a Dallas Stars loss — away from clinching a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. How…
Canucks Seeing the Potential Demko Showed at Boston College
The Vancouver Canucks are back in the playoff race thanks mostly to the brilliant play of Thatcher Demko. He is firmly entrenched as the starting goaltender and does not look…
Golden Knights’ Fleury is on an Unlikely Vezina Chase
It was mere months ago that the Vegas Golden Knights’ “No. 1 focus”, according to TSN insider Frank Seravalli, was unloading the contract of goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury. After signing Robin…
Hellebuyck Well-Deserving of Vezina Victory
Connor Hellebuyck’s superb season rightly culminated in a Vezina Trophy victory at the 2020 NHL Awards aired live from Edmonton. Hellebuyck received 19 first-place votes and a total of 123…
Jets’ Hellebuyck Wins Vezina Trophy
The NHL announced on Monday evening that the 2019-20 Vezina Trophy, awarded each year to the league’s top goaltender, would go to Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets. Hellebuyck, 27,…
Bruins’ Rask Has Strong Vezina Case
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…
Jets’ Hellebuyck Deserves Vezina & Hart Consideration
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…
Bruins’ Rask Having Vezina-Worthy Season
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…
Canucks’ Markstrom Making a Case for Vezina and Hart Consideration
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…
Lightning’s Vasilevskiy Chasing Vezina Trophy Repeat
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…
Will Frederik Andersen Get His Vezina Trophy in 2019-20?
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…