Goalkeeper Vasilevsky came in fourth place in shutouts among Russians in the NHL

On January 27, Andrei Vasilevsky, the Russian goalkeeper of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey Club (HC), took a clean fourth place in the number of zero matches among Russian goalkeepers in the history of the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season.

The goalkeeper scored a shutout in the match against Utah, which ended with a score of 2:0 in favor of Tampa. Now he has 42 "dry" matches in the regular NHL championships. According to this indicator, he beat his compatriot Semyon Varlamov, who has 41 shutouts.

Evgeny Nabokov (59 matches to zero), Sergey Bobrovsky (52) and Nikolai Khabibulin (46) remain the leaders among Russian goalkeepers, Sport-Express adds.

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