thankful to be in top consideration<\/a> for the award, though, and said back in late April that \u201cit\u2019s a lifelong dream of mine and to finally be in the conversation, it\u2019s an incredible honor.\u201d<\/p>\nVasilevskiy, who won the award once before (in 2018-19) and been a finalist six times, finished with 39 wins, a .912 save percentage and 2.31 goals-against average.<\/p>\n
Widely regarded as the main reason the Bruins made the playoffs after a 100-point season despite allowing more high-danger chances than most playoff teams, the 27-year-old Swayman finished the season with a 31-18-4 record, a 2.71 GAA and .908 save percentage.<\/p>\n
It was a big bounce-back season for Swayman, who signed an eight-year, $66 million deal prior to a subpar 2024-25 campaign, in which he posted a 22-9-7 record with career-worst marks in GAA (3.11) and save percentage (.892).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a whirlwind of a year and half on and off the ice and I think it\u2019s really structured out to be an incredible story and the growth that has come from it internally and also with the team, too, is pretty spectacular,\u201d Swayman said. \u201cI\u2019m so blessed. Truthfully, I\u2019m just so grateful for the journey that I\u2019ve been on and mindset I have and the outlook I have on life and on hockey has completely shifted. It was worth the adversity, I\u2019d say, and it\u2019s definitely shifted my entire life to a different level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vasilevskiy got 17 of the 32 first-place votes while Sorokin got eight. Washington\u2019s Logan Thompson and Colorado\u2019s Scott Wedgewood both got two first-place votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As was expected, Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy ran away with the Vezina Trophy as the NHL\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,156,4,3639],"class_list":["post-593023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-bruins","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-bruins","tag-hockey","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-nhl","tag-vezina-trophy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116706064742842980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593023","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=593023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}