Revisiting Vezina Trophy Seasons: George Hainsworth’s 1927-28 Season

If you recognize the name — George Hainsworth — it would make sense. After all, he was the inaugural winner of the Vezina Trophy in 1926-27 as a member of the Montreal Canadiens.

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Revisiting Calder Trophy Seasons: Frank Brimsek’s 1938-39 Season

Born in Eveleth, Minnesota, Frank Brimsek wasn’t your ordinary offensively-driven hockey player growing up. Instead, he was the one amongst the other kids that would step into the net and take on their...

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Revisiting Vezina Trophy Seasons: George Hainsworth’s 1926-27 Season

It was a trophy introduced to the league in 1926-27 by the former owners of the Montreal Canadiens — Leo Dandurand, Louis Letourneau and Joe Cattarinich — in memory of Canadiens’ go...

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Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck Deserves 2024 Vezina Trophy

There's no doubt about it: Connor Hellebuyck deserves the Vezina Trophy.

If there was any fear entering 2023-24 that Hellebuyck's play would regress or he would get too comfortable after signing a massive and unexpected seven-yea...

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Blues’ Binnington Deserves Vezina Consideration

With just a few weeks left in the season, the conversation about NHL awards is in full swing. And when it comes to the Vezina Trophy, awarded annually to the best goaltender in the league, Connor Hellebuyck is a runaway favorite. That is no surprise, as...

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Islanders’ Sorokin Has a Convincing Argument to Win the Vezina

The Vezina Trophy finalists were announced on Thursday, May 11, and on June 26, one of the three goaltenders nominated for the award will be declared the best goaltender of the 2022-23 season. The three fin...

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2023 Vezina Trophy Finalists Ranked

The Vezina Trophy is awarded to the best player at the goaltending position. All 32 general managers vote to decide which of the finalists will receive the accolade. For the 2022-23 season the finalists are Connor Hellebuyck, Linus Ullmark and Ilya Sorokin.

Linus Ul...

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NHL’s Biggest Trophy Snubs of the Past Decade

In light of the upcoming 2023 NHL Awards and the finalists just being announced, we're going to take a look back over the past decade at players who could and probably should have won certain trophies, but lost ou...

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Jets’ Hellebuyck Should Be Front-Runner for Vezina Trophy

The Winnipeg Jets find themselves atop the Central Division with an 18-7-1 record, which is also good for second-best in the entire Western Conference, behind only the Vegas Golden Knights. Rick Bowness' coaching style is doing wonde...

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