Andrei Vasilevskiy, a two-time Stanley Cup champion, led the NHL with 39 wins this season. Joe Hrycych / Getty ImagesJune 6, 2026 11:09 am EDT Updated Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy has won this year’s Vezina Trophy, the NHL announced Saturday. The annual award is given to the league’s best goalie as voted on by the general managers.Vasilevskiy beat out fellow finalists Ilya Sorokin of the New York Islanders and Jeremy Swayman of the Boston Bruins for the second Vezina win of his illustrious career. He has been a finalist for the award in six of the last nine seasons and received votes in eight of them.The two-time Stanley Cup champion led the NHL with 39 wins this season, and helped Tampa Bay to its ninth consecutive playoff appearance with a .912 save percentage and 23.57 goals saved above expected, according to HockeyStats.
He is the 24th goalie in NHL history with multiple Vezina Trophy wins, and joins Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky and Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck as the only active goalies with multiple wins. He also joins Bobrovsky and Hockey Hall of Famers Dominik Hašek, Martin Brodeur and Patrick Roy as the only goalies since the award’s criteria changed in 1982 — when voting began for the award — to win multiple Stanley Cup championships and multiple Vezina trophies.It adds to an already impressive career resume for the Russian netminder, who is still only 31 years old. Vasilevskiy has adapted his game over the years, sharpening his positioning and relying more on smart reads than explosive athletic saves as he has gotten older.He hasn’t achieved postseason success lately, with four consecutive first-round exits since winning back-to-back Cup wins in 2020 and 2021, but has maintained a level of excellence across 11 regular seasons that makes him one of the best goalies of his generation. This second Vezina Trophy only cements that further.
