However, the Lightning have been impacted by salary-cap related player losses over the past couple of seasons, including standout defenseman Ryan McDonagh and winger Ondrej Palat. 915 save percentage during the regular season were his worst since the 2015-16 season. Vasilevskiy’s goal-against-average of 2.65 and. “We’ll find out next year if it was too many games or just something else,” Vasilevskiy said. Kyle Dubas unsure if he will remain as Maple Leafs GM He went 34-22-4 in 60 regular-season games this season, but lost 12 of his final 20 outings. Vasilevskiy started 71 playoff games as Tampa Bay won the Cup in 2020 and ’21, earning playoff MVP honors the second time, before losing to Colorado in last season’s final. So, if I want to be a workhorse I have to recover well.” This season really showed me that I have to be smart about it. “All those small injuries came out at the same time. “The first 30, 35 games, I felt as usual but then me and my body weren’t on the same page, I guess,” Vasilevskiy added. “My mistake was that I didn’t really pay attention to my recovery,” Vasilevskiy said on Tuesday, three days after Tampa Bay was eliminated by Toronto in a first-round playoff series. (AP) - Andrei Vasilevskiy doesn’t know if the heavy workload over the past four seasons is to blame.īut the two-time Stanley Cup-winning Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender feels as if his body let him down in the second half of the season. and for the most part, we’ll try to give it a game-feel.TAMPA, Fla. “We’re going to try to replicate that as much as possible. “We’ve had quite a few practices now, and I think the guys want to be in a little more gamelike situations,” Cooper said Sunday. Cooper said he expects all the players, including the AHL callups, to get in some reps, however, he doesn’t expect the team to play 20-minute periods and there will not be NHL referees officiating. You can’t emulate it in any kind of drill.”Ĭoach Jon Cooper said he was also pleased with the team’s initial scrimmage and doesn’t expect much to change Monday during the first of two Blue and White intrasquad games at Amalie Arena. “Those are where you have to make your adjustments and make your strides,” he said. McDonagh said he liked the effort in the informal scrimmage, adding the team kept things pretty clean and didn’t let many sloppy plays creep in.
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