Welcome to The Hockey News - Vancouver Canucks site’s player preview series for the 2025–26 season. In these articles, we’ll ...

Sure, Dustin Wolf doesn’t exactly tower in the crease like todays’s prototypical goaltender. At 6-foot even, he may be below ...

This is Hellebuyck’s fourth Vezina Trophy nomination, having won the honor in 2019-20. The 30-year-old goaltender tallied 37 wins for the second consecutive regular season, one fewer than ...

Winner of the Vezina Trophy in 2019-20, Connor Hellebuyck has been the NHL's busiest goaltender since taking over in 2016-17 as the Winnipeg Jets' starter, facing 11,060 total shots. He's also ...

He won the Vezina Trophy and was third in voting for the Hart Trophy as NHL most valuable player two seasons ago after he went 36-13-4 with a 2.07 goals-against average, .935 save percentage and ...

Hellebuyck has cemented himself as one of the league's top goalies over the past few seasons. He has already captured the Vezina Trophy in 2019-20 and 2023-24 and has the fourth-highest save ...

From the 1980-81 season, the Vezina Trophy was awarded to goaltenders who played a minimum of 25 games for their team. No winner of the accolade in the last 10 years has exceeded 69 games played.

The Vezina Trophy is awarded annually to the NHL's top goaltender as voted by the general managers of all 31 clubs. Two recent winners are once again in contention for this prestigious honor.

The trophy was created and first presented in 1927 in memory of Montreal Canadiens goaltender Georges Vezina, who collapsed during an NHL game on Nov. 28, 1925.

From 2019 to 2022, one of Clear Sight Analytics’ primary data points accurately predicted that year’s Vezina Trophy recipient. In 2019, Andrei Vasilevskiy saved 26.33 all-situations goals ...

However, the Vezina went to Martin Brodeur of the Devils that season, who had a .917 save percentage, which ranked 15th among those with at least 20 starts.