8/18/2023 0 Comments Bruins stanley cupsNeither Bruins’ netminder has much playoff experience, but in Swayman’s five career playoff starts he is 3-and-2 with a 2.63 goals against average and a. Barring a late-season collapse, he has been the B’s go-to guy all year.īut here’s the kicker. Ullmark has deserved to get the start in Game One of the First Round, that much is all but guaranteed. It would be unprecedented for the Bruins to win the Cup, Ullmark win the Vezina, and STILL have him and Jeremy Swayman get equal playing time. That being said, the odds of Ullmark winning the Vezina AND the Stanley Cup coincide with him starting every game during the postseason. If Ullmark is to claim the individual award come late June, it’s more probable than not that he has done so without winning the Stanley Cup. According to the DraftKings Sportsbook Ullmark is (-3000) with Islanders’ goaltender Ilya Sorokin the second-favorite to win at (+1800). The likelihood of Linus Ullmark winning the Vezina this season are pretty high. Mandatory Credit: Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports JVancouver, BC, CANADA Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas (30) winner of the Conn Smythe trophy speaks at the press conference after defeating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals at Rogers Arena. Martin Brodeur with the New Jersey Devils in 2003 and Tim Thomas with the Bruins in 2011. The real outlier was Marc-Andre Fleury and Matt Murray essentially splitting the duties in 2017 due in part to injury.Īlso, only two teams had the Vezina Trophy winner. I guess having the greatest player during his generation has something to do with that. Somehow the Pittsburgh Penguins won back-to-back Stanley Cups with three different starting goaltenders between 2016-17. To this point in the season, Linus Ullmark (34-5-and-1) has won 85% of his games and Jeremy Swayman (18-6-and-4) has won 64% of his games played.Ī couple of things to note. That would mean that the winning team typically goes 16-and-7, which is a 70% winning percentage. On average it takes just over 23 games to win the Cup. 1997 Detroit Red Wings (20 – Mike Vernon).1998 Detroit Red Wings (22 – Chris Osgood).2000 New Jersey Devils (23 – Martin Brodeur).2001 Colorado Avalanche (23 – Patrick Roy).2002 Detroit Red Wings (23 – Dominik Hasek).2003 New Jersey Devils (24 – Martin Brodeur*).2004 Tampa Bay Lightning (23 – Nikolai Khabibulin).2006 Carolina Hurricanes (23 – Cam Ward, 2 – Martin Gerber).2007 Anaheim Ducks (18 – Jean-Sebastien Giguere, 5 – Ilya Bryzgalov).2008 Detroit Red Wings (18 – Chris Osgood, 4 – Dominik Hasek).2009 Pittsburgh Penguins (23 – Marc-Andre Fleury).2010 Chicago Blackhawks (22 – Antii Niemi).2012 Los Angeles Kings (20 – Jonathan Quick).2013 Chicago Blackhawks (23 – Corey Crawford).2014 Los Angeles Kings (26 – Jonathan Quick).2015 Chicago Blackhawks (19 – Corey Crawford, 4 – Scott Darling).2016 Pittsburgh Penguins (21 – Matt Murray, 2 – Jeff Zatkoff, 1 – Marc-Andre Fleury).2017 Pittsburgh Penguins (15 – Marc-Andre Fleury, 10 – Matt Murray).2018 Washington Capitals (22 – Braden Holtby, 2 – Philipp Grubauer).2020 Tampa Bay Lightning (25 – Andrei Vasilevskiy).2021 Tampa Bay Lightning (23 – Andrei Vasilevskiy).2022 Colorado Avalanche (16 – Darcy Kuemper, 4 – Pavel Francouz).Here are the games started for every goaltender that was part of a Stanley Cup championship team over the past 25 years (which takes us to the year before Jeremy Swayman was born): Jeremy Swayman has been up-and-down this season, while Linus Ullmark has been mostly up, but with shutouts in each of his last two games Swayman is making a strong argument to be the Bruins’ starting goaltender for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Boston Bruins goaltender Linus Ullmark (35) celebrates the win with goaltender Jeremy Swayman (1) after the third period at Rogers Arena.
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