When NHL players were surveyed by their union for which goalie they'd want to win one game, Andrei Vasilevskiy was the choice for over than half of those who answered,. More than a half-dozen skaters asked last month came to the same conclusion.
Oct 04, 2023 at 07:20 AM ETLeon Draisaitl found it hard to answer the question of who's the best goaltender in the world.Of course, he did mention one name: Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy, who is considered the best by a wide margin. When NHL players were surveyed by their union for which goalie they'd want to win one game, Vasilevskiy was the choice for over than half of those who answered,. More than a half-dozen skaters asked last month came to the same conclusion.
One problem: Vasilevskiy is expected to miss the first two months of the season after undergoing back surgery. That's a major headache for Tampa Bay and could open the door for Nashville's Juuse Saros or one of the two goaltenders in New York — the Rangers’ Igor Shesterkin and Islanders’ Ilya Sorokin — to win the Vezina Trophy.
“You look him and you see no net,” Montreal forward Cole Caufield said. “That’s what makes him so special -- that he’s still able to move and be quick in that way, too. It’s frustrating as a shooter, but you’ve got to beat him off the pass almost every time.” “Just how big he is and how he moves — his positioning as well,” Detroit captain Dylan Larkin said. “Pucks hit him when he can’t see it. You get him looking at the puck squared up to you, it’s hard to score on him.”
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