As always in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a team’s success usually weighs heavily upon one player: the goaltender.
This year, it is no different. However, the two teams battling for Lord Stanley have seen both the best, and the worst, from their net-minder this spring.
Just two games before the Tampa Bay Lightning became Eastern Conference Champions, and punched their ticket to the Final, Ben Bishop was pulled after allowing 6 goals. Andrei Vasilevskiy played in relief, in his first Stanley Cup Playoff action of his career.
Bishop bounced back in a big way, recording a shutout in Game Seven, on the road in New York.