We are still at least more than a week away from Game 1 of a Stanley Cup final, and also without one of its two participants, but we can already size up one of the key matchups. That's because no matter who makes it through between the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference final, the goaltender that emerges will hold a sizeable advantage over their counterpart from the Colorado Avalanche.
In fact, whether it is Tampa's Andrei Vasilevskiy or New York's Igor Shesterkin, they will be aiming to continue a very reliable trend in the Stanley Cup playoffs, which is an insistence among championship netminders to be homegrown.