{"id":612323,"date":"2026-07-02T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/612323\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:30:13","slug":"7-facts-vitek-vanecek-new-york-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/612323\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Facts: Vitek Vanecek | New York Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Islanders\u00a0signed\u00a0goaltender Vitek Vanecek\u00a0to a one-year deal\u00a0on Wednesday. Get to know the newest Isles netminder in the latest edition of 7 Facts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THE BASICS<\/p>\n<p>Vanecek is a 6\u20192,\u201d 184 lbs. netminder who is coming off a season with the Utah Mammoth.\u00a0In\u00a0210 career NHL games\u00a0with the Washington Capitals, New Jersey Devils, San Jose Sharks, Florida\u00a0Panthers\u00a0and Utah, the 30-year-old goalie\u00a0went\u00a0101-69-24 along with a .900 SV%, 2.84 GAA and 11 shutouts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HE WON A STANLEY CUP WITH THE PANTHERS<\/p>\n<p>Vanecek won a Stanley Cup with Florida in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though Vanecek did not appear in their 2025 playoff run, he made seven regular-season appearances for the Panthers before they captured the Stanley Cup. He\u2019s also appeared in 10 career Stanley Cup Playoff games with the Capitals and Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders\u00a0signed\u00a0goaltender Vitek Vanecek\u00a0to a one-year deal\u00a0on Wednesday. Get to know the newest Isles netminder in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":["post-612323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-hockey","tag-islanders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116847563502994870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612323","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=612323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}