Andrei Vasilevsky News & Stories

No goalie as young as Dustin Wolf has gotten a contract this big or this long. Now, can he live up to it?

JFresh previews the first round series between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers.

Who are the 10 best goalies in the league so far this season?

Sean Shapiro ranks the 15 best goalies going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

Jeremy Swayman wants a big contract, but what's the right AAV?

The quality of competition wasn't that high in the first round. Now it is.

This could very well be the end of an era.

The Florida Panthers took a 2-0 series lead in the battle of Florida. Sean Shapiro has the full scope of the action from last night across the league.

The tale of the tape for the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Lightning are winning a lot all of a sudden, and maybe more important, the goalie is up to his old tricks.

What to do, what to do? When fantasy darlings turn sour grapes, Cam Robinson helps you find a way to handle them.

Who needs bold predictions? Sean Shapiro brings you the boring ones that will actually happen this season.

The Tampa Bay Lightning may technically have a backup goalie, but I'm not sure they have a real backup plan for the Andrei Vasilevskiy injury. That and more in What We Learned.

Sean Shapiro looks at the NHL, the injury in Tampa, and much more in his weekly column.

Andrei Vasilevskiy underwent successful back surgery. Where does that leave your fantasy team?

Greg Balloch ranks the 15 best goaltenders in the NHL going into the 2023-24 season.

Associate Editor Sean Shapiro lays out some of the things he'll be tracking when watching the Atlantic Division this season.

The playoffs aren't always fair and they aren't always revealing. But a lot of times, you get what you earn.

JFresh previews the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning's first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

Let's look at some little niceys.

Gotta be thinkin' trade at this point, folks.

EP Rinkside associate editor goes down the rabbit hole of trying to stop The Michigan with NHL All-Star goalies, a goalie coach, and former NHLer Marty Turco.

The Bruins goalie is the far and away Vezina favorite and discussed his season at the All-Star Game in Florida.

Cam Robinson takes a spin around the fantasy hockey universe that you don't want to miss.

Abbey Mastracco looks at the key factors in the Colorado Avalanche's 2022 Stanley Cup championship win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Ondrej Palat's 12th Stanley Cup Playoff game-winner helped the Tampa Bay Lightning stave off elimination against the Colorado Avalanche. Abbey Mastracco with details in Denver on his career ascent.

Three games into the Stanley Cup Final the Avs have a decision to make about which goalie to roll with after a 6-2 loss in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. Abbey Mastracco looks at the key storylines moving forward in the series.

Game 2 was an absolute bloodbath. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert is hoping Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final won't be.

JFresh breaks down the clash of the titans in the Stanley Cup Final using stats gathered by TopDownHockey and AllThreeZones.

The Rangers were good at a few things in the regular season, one of which couldn't help them in the postseason. Ryan Lambert looks at What We Learned in the Conference Finals ahead of the start of the Stanley Cup Final.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert has a scorching hot take on the sixth week of the Stanley Cup Playoffs: The hockey is good. That's his take.

JFresh breaks down the Eastern Conference Final Series between the Rangers and Lightning.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Oilers beat the Flames, and how the Lightning swept the Panthers in round two.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Flames eventually beat the Stars, and how the Lightning outlasted the Maple Leafs in round one.

EP Rinkside goaltending expert Catherine Silverman previews every goalie matchup in the first round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Lots of teams are absolutely freaking out these days, and they probably should be.

The Los Angeles Kings are actually very good again.

As we enter into another NHL season, we must remember that there is more at stake than simply Stanley Cup aspirations for the 32 clubs. There is fantasy hockey glory...

Ryan Lambert looks at the five goaltenders most likely to contend for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender in the 2021-22 season.

It’s been quite an eventful few weeks in the NHL, and it seems like if you put your phone down to make lunch, there’s a good chance you’ll miss big news. Here is Rachel Doerrie's take on all of the NHL news we've had over the last two weeks.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal Canadiens, and how they just repeated as Stanley Cup champions.

The phrase "No. 1 bullshit" is likely to make its way on to t-shirts in the near future. But what Nikita Kucherov said about Andrei Vasilevskiy had merit.

It looks like the Tampa Bay Lightning are destined for their second Stanley Cup win in nine months. Enjoy it. Celebrate it. Relish it for all its worth, while you still can. They're the subject of this week's "What we Learned," by Ryan Lambert.

JFresh breaks down the battle for the Stanley Cup between the pesky cinderella Canadiens and the defending champion Lightning

The Montreal Canadiens got by the Vegas Golden Knights because they did not allow a single power play goal in the series. That’s it. Now they face the best power play in hockey in the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Islanders, to return to the Stanley Cup Final for a second consecutive postseason.

The key to playing hockey at a high level is to not think. The New York Islanders' system forces everyone else to think while the Isles just have to execute.

JFresh breaks down the numbers for the Conference Final rematch between the reigning champion Lightning and the king-slaying Islanders

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes, en route to winning the Central Division and advancing to the final four.

As the finalists for each of the major individual awards that we care about get announced over the next couple of weeks, we'll be sorting through where the voters got it right and where they went wrong. First up: the Vezina Trophy.

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.

Having two goalies you can rely on is extremely useful in today's NHL, but not every team does. Dimitri Filipovic looks at which ones have had a good tandem, which ones have relied the most on their starter, and which ones have some work to do.

Dimitri Filipovic checks in with the debut of a new monthly feature on Rinkside, one aptly named 'NHL Trophy Watch,' in which he looks at the NHL award frontrunners as the carries on.

Can the Olympic Athletes from Russia pull off an improbable gold model repeat at the 2022 Olympic games?