Stars goaltender Ben Bishop is accustomed to a Vezina Trophy nomination. He just hasn't nailed down winning one.

For the third time in his career, Bishop was nominated for the Vezina Trophy, set to be awarded during the NHL awards Wednesday night in Vegas. The awards show will be hosted by Keenan Thompson (with appearances from Alex Trebek and Jon Hamm) and aired on NBC Sports Network at 7 p.m.

Bishop is nominated with Islanders goalie Robin Lehner and Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy. The league's 31 general managers voted on the Vezina.

Bishop led the league with a .934 save percentage and was second with a 1.98 goals against average, but injury -- and effectiveness of backup Anton Khudobin -- limited him to just 46 games. The .934 save percentage was a franchise record, as was his 233:04 shutout streak in mid-March.

Bishop set a new career high with seven shutouts, and nearly carried the Stars to the Western Conference final by making 52 saves in a double-overtime loss in Game 7 to St. Louis. It was the most saves by a Dallas goaltender in more than a decade.

Vasilevskiy enters Wednesday as the betting favorite to win the trophy, having led the league with 39 wins, backstopping Tampa Bay to the Presidents' Trophy. Among goalies with at least 30 games, Vasilevskiy ranked seventh in save percentage (.925) and ninth in goals against average (2.40).

The biggest knock on Lehner's candidacy is the same as the one on Bishop's: playing time. Lehner also appeared in 46 games and had worse numbers (.930 and 2.13) than Bishop.

Should Bishop not win the Vezina, he would join Roberto Luongo and Curtis Joseph as the only goaltenders in NHL history with three top-three finishes and zero wins. The Stars have never won a Vezina Trophy, with Marty Turco's second-place finish in 2002-03 the closest Dallas has come.

If Bishop wins, it would mark the first time that a goalie not from the Eastern Conference or a Canadian team won the Vezina in back-to-back seasons. Nashville's Pekka Rinne won the award last season.

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