In no surprise and what was viewed as a fair accompli, Igor Shesterkin won the Vezina Trophy. The only mild surprise was that he didn’t sweep all the first place votes. Shesterkin placed third in the Hart voting and Adam Fox finished fifth in the Norris balloting. Chris Drury was announced as a finalist for the Jim Gregory, GM of the Year Award.
Shesterkin: Igor garnered 29 of the 32 first place votes to win the Vezina. Frederik Andersen, Andrei Vasilevskiy and Ilya Sorokin each had one first place vote with the speculation that each of their respective GMs voted for them. Ironically, the players that finished second and third, Jacob Markstrom and Jusse Saros did not receive a first place vote.
First-time finalist, first-time winner.
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) June 21, 2022
Igor Shesterkin is the 3rd @NYRangers goaltender to win the Vezina Trophy under the current selection criteria (since 1981-82), after Henrik Lundqvist (2011-12) & John Vanbiesbrouck (1985-86). #NHLAwards#NHLStats: https://t.co/E9pThiCPCs pic.twitter.com/sLkWDUikqu
VEZINA TROPHY WINNER RELEASE US pic.twitter.com/QgPFEXaBVR
— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) June 21, 2022
To: Our Vezina Trophy winner
— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) June 21, 2022
From: The boys pic.twitter.com/jYefq5AMNh
IGOR!!! IGOR!!! IGOR!!! pic.twitter.com/zfvBBHtONs
— Stat Boy Steven 🇳🇱 🇮🇪 (@StatBoy_Steven) June 21, 2022
Igor Shesterkin (.935) posted the third highest save percentage of a Vezina Trophy winner under the current selection criteria, behind Tim Thomas (.938 in 2010-11) and Dominik Hasek (.937 in 1998-99). #NHLAwards #NHLStats: https://t.co/E9pThiCPCs pic.twitter.com/W138eKwO3K
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) June 21, 2022
In his Vezina trophy-winning season, Igor Shesterkin saved 37.2 goals above expected + earned 38 quality starts and nine stolen wins. That's before tallying a GSAx of 23.1 in the playoffs (total of 60.3 in 73 games combined, via @EvolvingHockey). https://t.co/7edbFxeJLi pic.twitter.com/PPxYGsgUrw
— Shayna (@hayyyshayyy) June 21, 2022
Shesterkin finished third in the Hart Voting. I would love to ask the 51 voters (he was named on 144 if I believe the 195 ballots) who left him off the ballot what the heck they were thinking. Pretty sure most of us thought Austin Mathews would win, but I expected the gap between second and third to be a lot closer and thought Igor had a chance to finish second. Of course that presumption was based on all the voters having a clue. Clearly, I was mistaken.
2022 Hart Memorial Trophy Voting pic.twitter.com/T1WAdjdde7
— Complete Hockey News (@CompleteHkyNews) June 22, 2022
Fox finished fifth in the Norris Trophy voting. Cale Makar took first place by 25 points over Roman Josi. We knew the vote would be close and no issues with Makar winning. Fox had a very solid year and deserved to be in the top-five after winning the award last season. He is the first Ranger since Brian Leetch in 1994-95 and 95-96 to place in the top-five of Norris voting in back-to-back seasons.
Norris Trophy voting breakdown: pic.twitter.com/2REcw8J3t7
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) June 21, 2022
NHL All-Star Team: Shesterkin, aided by his Vezina win, is the goalie on the first team. No other Ranger placed on the first of second team. Mika Zibanejad did not finish amongst the top-10 at center while Chris Kreider placed fifth and Artemi Panarin seventh at left wing. Fox just missed the second team, finishing fifth in the defensemen voting.
Presenting the 2021-22 First All-Star Team.
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) June 22, 2022
Auston Matthews, who captured multiple #NHLAwards tonight with the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP & Ted Lindsay Award for most outstanding player, heads the list of players as voted by @ThePHWA.#NHLStats: https://t.co/R1Enw3ReAv pic.twitter.com/uAJ9MXV5uM
Drury is one of the three GM of the Year Finalists along with Julien Brisebois of Tampa and Joe Sakic of Colorado. My guess is that Sakic wins the award. Since the voting took place at the end of of the second round of the playoffs, Drury being one of the three shouldn’t be all that shocking.
Colorado's Joe Sakic, New York's Chris Drury and Tampa Bay's Julien Brisebois have been named Jim Gregory GM of the Year finalists for 2022.https://t.co/xpyEd1jhMI
— The Hockey News (@TheHockeyNews) June 22, 2022
Named @NYRangers GM on May 5, 2021, Chris Drury made a transformative move fewer than six weeks into his tenure by hiring head coach Gerard Gallant and helped the club to its third-best finish in the past 25 seasons (7th overall). #NHLAwards
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) June 22, 2022
#NHLStats: https://t.co/Xf1PP47jxd pic.twitter.com/EoceEnnsbj