[Jesse Granger] Igor Shesterkin has been the best goalie in the Stanley Cup Playoffs over the last 3 years, and there isn’t a close 2nd. He’s doing it with exceptional details and two key traits. Breaking it all down with film examples:
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Thats our boy
2 Charts from that:
https://imgur.com/uKsEx2K
https://imgur.com/IeHdNkw
And this quote really puts it in perspective of how good he’s been:
>His 42.07 goals saved above expected over the last three postseasons lead all goalies, and there isn’t a close second.
>The NHL didn’t track GSAx until 2007. In the 17 years since, only one goalie has saved more goals above expected in the playoffs than Shesterkin. Former Rangers great Henrik Lundqvist stopped 54.44 GSAx, but did it in more than three times the number of games Shesterkin has played. Shesterkin is the only goalie in the top five with fewer than 92 games played — and he has only 38.
As weird as it sounds, he’s one of the few Vezina winners to not collapse in the postseason.
Still bothers me to this day that Hank never got a Cup. Can’t have it happen to Igor too