(Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.)

Just a few months ago, it seemed like Braden Holtby would inevitably win the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender.

There was, of course, a conversation to be had that perhaps a guy like Ben Bishop or Petr Mrazek deserved to be in the conversation, but a lot of that has dropped off as the wins continued to pile up for Holtby. As of Monday, Holtby leads the league with 41, and should become the first goaltender to win 50 in the history of the league. He could, in fact, obliterate the record of 48 held by Martin Brodeur.

Not that you should judge goaltender quality on wins and losses, of course. You can be a very good goalie with a very bad record if the team in front of you stinks; Cory Schneider lost 31 games last year despite a .925 save percentage. Meanwhile, Kari Lehtonen went 34-17-10 last season despite a save percentage of just .903. So in general that kind of thing can have absolutely no bearing on whether you yourself helped your team's cause. Of course, Holtby has been very good this year (.922) which is just about de rigueur for him. He's been among the league's best for years, and this season could, if nothing else, be seen as something of a record-breaking coming-out party. He hasn't been a passenger for this incredible Washington club, which could go down as one of the best regular-season teams in league history.

However, Holtby hasn't been the actual best goaltender in the league this year. The problem that's left is figuring out who has.

Travis Yost wrote last week about why Henrik Lundqvist should win the Vezina, and it's a pretty good argument. He plays a huge amount of his team's available minutes and has the best 5-on-5 save percentage in the league by a decent enough margin, and for a bad enough team, that you can logically say he's dragging the New York Rangers kicking and screaming to a pretty favorable playoff position. No goalie in the league faces a smaller average shot distance. Without him, they would basically be nowhere.

Meanwhile, Bishop continues to hang around the conversation as well, with a 5-on-5 save percentage to more or less match Holtby's, but a very high overall number as well at .926, good for second among big-minutes goaltenders, and hovering right around where it's been all year. A few months ago, I wrote that Bishop deserved serious consideration for Vezina, and that hasn't changed at all.

And despite the somewhat recent drop-off in Mrazek's play (which will disqualify him from contention in the eyes of many voters, no doubt), he still has a .924 save percentage in all situations behind a team that's not particularly good. His .882 save percentage in his last 10 games leaves plenty of room for doubt, obviously, but before that he was .934 in 37 appearances, so while he's dropped off, he's done so from basically Mount Olympus.

Then there's Corey Crawford, of whom the hockey world seemingly still thinks very little despite the fact that he's been a .917-plus goaltender in each of the last four seasons, and five of the last six. He currently leads the league in overall save percentage, and his 5-on-5 number is top-five as well. Simply put, if the Chicago Blackhawks were relying on anyone else, it probably wouldn't be even be close to the top of the Central. By Yost's reckoning, Crawford probably has probably saved his team about 20 or 21 goals, which is worth four wins all by itself.

So what we have here, then, is a group of five guys who in any other season would probably be comfortably on their way toward clearing a spot on the mantle for the Vezina. Most of them have strong arguments for them, and only two have strong arguments against.

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