The general managers have voted for the Vezina Trophy and the three finalists are more-or-less who we should have expected:



Ben Bishop, Robin Lehner, and Andrei Vasilevskiy all put up excellent performances this season, finishing first (Bishop, .934), second (Lehner, .930) and third (Vasilevskiy, .925) in save percentage (the basic statistic that best predicts the Vezina winner) for goalies playing at least 45 games. As usual, all the finalists made the playoffs with strong winning records. However, unlike previous seasons, the unofficial minimum-games threshold was lowered significantly.



Traditionally, general managers have chosen goalies who have played at least 60 games, or come very close to that figure. Last year’s finalists, Pekka Rinne (59), Connor Hellebuyck (64) and Vasilevskiy (64) fit the criteria, while all finishing top-three in wins, another measure GMs greatly covet. However, this left Marc-Andre Fleury (46 GP, 92.7 SP) and Antti Raanta (47...