“We’ll find out next year if it was too many games or just something else,” Vasilevskiy said. Seattle goes 7 again, this time against Stars in NHL's only playoff game Monday 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.
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