Earlier this week, The Athletic contributor Satchel Price tweeted out an interesting screenshot of a Vezina Trophy poll.



There were 5,220 votes for this year’s best Vezina candidate for best goaltender, all from participants in a Sportsnet poll published on November 19.



A whopping 55 percent of the vote went to Sergei Bobrovsky, who has been remarkably eye-catching this year; that’s understandable enough in its own right.



The other 45 percent of the votes were split between a pair of young goaltenders — Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning — and Corey Crawford, who is one game shy of 400 in his NHL career.



Crawford earned just five percent of the vote, or 261 individual votes.



I was stunned.



Sure, it was a small sample size, but given the percentage of the hockey community that roots for the Blackhawks, it seemed almost impossible to believe fewer than 300...