Igor Shestjorkin of the New York Rangers could become the fifth player in NHL history to win both the most valuable player and the best goalkeeper awards during the same season, writes Tommi Seppälä, a journalist for Sports.
Sunday’s match at Winnipeg seemed to be the Russian goalkeeper for the New York Rangers To Igor Shestjorkin only one office day among others. The New York Rangers won the match, with Shestjork retaliating 45 times, accompanied by a muted finish. The home team Jets got the game behind the Russian only once.
However, there was nothing new here for Rangers.
For Shestjorkin, the victory in Winnipeg was already in the eleventh match of the season, where he fights at least 35 times and fourth, with at least 40 fights.
Of the at least 35 combat matches, the terrified Rangers guard has lost only two during the season, the last time in early November.
After playing 37 games, the Russian’s rejection percentage is an incomprehensible 94.2! The reading is the second highest in NHL history for 35 games in a single season. Toronto Jaques Planten the control rate reached 94.4 51 years ago. This puts Shestjorkin’s dominance for the current period in a suitable perspective.
In the end, it’s exactly the same as the goalkeeper stats for the current season, with Shestjork rolling in almost everyone. For example, in the GSAA statistics, which measures the number of goals saved by a goalkeeper relative to the league average, the Rangers Veskar’s score is five to five against 24 hits plus.
Second in Vancouver Thatcher Demko is nearly five hits behind Shestjorkin.
An important consideration from the perspective of the goalkeeper game is also related to how the team plays in front. The Rangers have often been a team that has been particularly close to their goalkeepers. The group has drifted once, if not another, to play enchanting hockey, which has put Shestjorkin’s goal in the mouth hard.
The Rangers have conceded the second least goals per match in the league, but in the scoring statistics it is the tail end of the league. The five-to-five team’s No. 1 finish line ratio is 46.7, which is enough for the 24th place.
But what about that, when Shestjorkin’s dangerous goal-fighting rate of 88.3 is the best in the whole series.
At the moment, Igor Shestjorkin is by far the best goalkeeper of the NHL season. Shestjorkin is also the biggest favorite to win a trophy next summer named after George Vezina. If this happens, the award would go to Russia for the fourth time in ten years.
But is Shestjork also the most valuable and best player in the entire league?
Officially, the Hart Trophy is known as the Most Valuable Player Award for his team, but it has long been distributed as some sort of Best Player Award. Looking at the award from either angle, Shestjork must also be nominated as the biggest winner in this category.
Only four goalkeepers selected as the most valuable player
Sure Edmonton Connor McDavidToronto Auston MatthewsFlorida Jonathan Huberdeau or Washington Alexander Ovetshkin could be potential Hart winners, but these are hard to put ahead of the Russian guard.
Shestjorkin is simply by far the most important player on his team and the biggest reason why the Rangers are the fifth best team in the NHL to date. Add to this even the historical dominance in some of the goalkeeper stats, the Russian goalkeeper may well be said to be the best player in the series this season.
The situation is completely exceptional, when it is understood that in the same season, only four goalkeepers have won the prize for the best goalkeeper and the most valuable player in the league: Dominik Hasek twice, Jose Theodore, Carey Price and previously mentioned Jaques Plante once.
If the condition of Rangers ’Russian guard lasts until the end, winning both awards is realistic.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put a lot of pressure on the Russian community in the NHL. President of Russia Vladimir Putin a long-time related party Alexander Ovetshkin as well as the feedback on social media received by this paycheck from Washington Capitals is relentlessly harsh.
Collective pressure is now widespread on all Russians playing in the NHL, many of whom hope to choose their side in public.
On the other hand, the North American media has not, at least not left, drumming on the subject even more. However, it will be interesting to see if the ongoing war has an impact on the summer awards gala. Are Russians allowed to win prizes normally?
For example, members of the North American Hockey Association will vote for the Most Valuable Player award. The best goalkeeper, on the other hand, is team executives like Columbus Jarmo Kekäläinen.
If hockey is considered hockey, which would appear to be the North American entry angle to the current situation right now, it would be better for Shestjorkin to clear the room by the summer. If human factors affect the results of the vote, there may be surprising winners in the permit.