“Something we didn’t have the last few years. “More opportunity to prepare your mind and body for the next season properly,” Vasilevskiy said. Vasilevskiy, 28, plans to rest for the next five to seven weeks. He’s still a young man, keeps himself in terrific shape but the mind’s got to heal and I think that will be probably be the best part there.” You take a few months off, his body will heal. “So, he’s probably being a little harder on himself. “At some point will it take a toll? I’m sure it does,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of Vasilevskiy’s heavy workload. 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. The next-closest over that time is Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck at just under 11,372 minutes over 192 games. He has played more hockey since the bubble playoffs began in August 2020 than anyone else in the NHL: 14,769 minutes over 242 games in the regular season and playoffs. 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. TAMPA - 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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