{"id":389669,"date":"2026-01-04T05:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/389669\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:25:13","slug":"lightnings-andrei-vasilevskiy-cementing-spot-among-nhls-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/389669\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Andrei Vasilevskiy: Cementing spot among NHL&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765823772_777_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/394.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2000680\/vasilevskiy\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vasilevskiy<\/a> made 19 saves in a 7-3 win over the Sharks on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The game was never in doubt &#8212; the Bolts were up 3-0 by the 6:46 mark of the first period. Pavol Regenda was Vasilevskiy&#8217;s kryptonite, though &#8212; the 26-year-old journeyman winger with 23 career NHL games scored all of the San Jose goals. It was his first career hattie. The talented netminder is on a 5-0-0 run, and he is on a personal 16-4-0 run since Oct. 26. Vasilevskiy has been excellent since he got his skates under him following a 0-3-2 run with 17 goals allowed to start the season. Overall, Vasy&#8217;s 2.36 GAA and .912 save percentage are both sixth among NHL netminders with at least 16 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vasilevskiy made 19 saves in a 7-3 win over the Sharks on Saturday. The game was never in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[243,276,5,4,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-389669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-andrei-vasilevskiy","9":"tag-fantasy-hockey","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115835169981427687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}