Vezina Trophy
{{Short description|Ice hockey award}}
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| givenfor = National Hockey League's goaltender who is "adjudged to be the best at this position"
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| first = 1926–27 NHL season
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The Vezina Trophy ({{IPAc-en|v|ɛ|z|ə|n|ə}} {{respell|VEH|zə|nə}}) is awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender who is "adjudged to be the best at this position". At the end of each season, the thirty-two NHL general managers vote to determine the winner. It is named in honour of Georges Vezina, goaltender of the Montreal Canadiens from 1910 until 1925, who died in 1926 of tuberculosis. The trophy was first awarded after the 1926–27 NHL season and was awarded to the top goaltender. From {{NHL Year|1946}} to {{NHL Year|1981}}, the trophy went to the goaltender(s) of the team allowing the fewest goals during the regular season;{{cite web |url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=24965 |title=Vezina Trophy |access-date=2012-05-17 |publisher=NHL.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414180820/http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=24965 |archive-date=2017-04-14 }} since the 1981–82 season, the William M. Jennings Trophy has been awarded for this accomplishment.
The most recent winner is Connor Hellebuyck in the 2023–24 season.
History
The Vezina Trophy was named in honor of Georges Vezina, an exceptional goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens. Vezina collapsed during a game in 1925 and was diagnosed as having tuberculosis, of which he died in 1926. Upon Vezina's death, the trophy was donated to the League by the Canadiens' owners, Leo Dandurand, Louis Letourneau and Joe Cattarinich to honour Vezina permanently. It was first awarded at the end of the 1926–27 NHL season to George Hainsworth who had come to Montreal to succeed Vezina.
The trophy was accepted by the league at its May 15, 1927, meeting in Montreal.{{cite news
|work=Montreal Gazette
|date=May 16, 1927
|title=Referee-in-Chief as Supervisor in Major Pro Hockey
|page=20
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JG8tAAAAIBAJ&pg=6480%2C2276304
|newspaper=The Globe and Mail
|date=May 16, 1927
|title=No Changes Likely in Pro Circuit
|page=11
}} The criteria for winning was variously reported. The Montreal Gazette and The Globe and Mail reported that it was 'to be awarded each year to the goaltender in the National Hockey League having the best (goals against) average,' while the Toronto Star reported that the trophy went to the 'most valuable' goaltender in the league.{{cite news |work=Toronto Star |title=Frank Calder to deal with Art Ross |date=May 16, 1927 |page=10}} When Hainsworth won his third Vezina at the end of the 1928–29 NHL season, the trophy was reported to be for the 'most outstanding' goaltender in the league.{{cite news
|work=The Telegraph Herald and Times Journal
|date=April 4, 1929
|title=Hainsworth Wins Memorial Trophy
|page=11
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xYpFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2942,1342298&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
}} However, later reports state that the trophy was based on the lowest goals against average (GAA).{{cite news
|work=Montreal Gazette
|date=March 20, 1936
|title=Sports on Parade
|page=14
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jX8tAAAAIBAJ&pg=2107,2476396&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
|work=The Windsor Daily Star
|date=March 30, 1939
|title=Brimsek No. 1 Rookie
|page=30
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wCI_AAAAIBAJ&pg=3995,6772500&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
|work=The Leader-Post
|date=December 5, 1942
|title=Tough Job! NHL Goaltenders Having Trouble
|page=7
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WLtTAAAAIBAJ&pg=2931,3292164&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
}}
The Vezina Trophy was quite prestigious, as it was one of the three major personal awards given out by the National Hockey League at the time, along with the Hart Trophy and the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.{{cite news
|work=Ottawa Citizen
|date=April 18, 1933
|title=NHL Trophy Awards Are Announced
|page=6
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E-kuAAAAIBAJ&pg=6621,3298862&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
}} The hockey media closely follow a tight "Vezina Trophy race,"{{cite news
|work=Montreal Gazette
|date=March 17, 1941
|title=Red Wings, Bruins Play to Draw, 2-2—Mowers Maintains Three-Goal Edge Over Brimsek in Vezina Trophy Race
|page=12
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aIAtAAAAIBAJ&pg=6050,2726201&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
}} such as in {{NHL Year|1940}}, when Frank Brimsek, Turk Broda, and Johnny Mowers were separated by only three goals entering the final weekend of the season.{{cite news
|work=The Day
|date=March 17, 1941
|title=Goal Tenders Fighting for Vezina Trophy
|page=7
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VDFkAAAAIBAJ&pg=5442,6092604&dq=vezina+trophy&hl=en
}}
=1946 to 1981=
In February 1946, the NHL stated that the trophy was to go to the team that allowed the fewest goals during the regular season. The goaltender playing the most games for that team would be awarded the trophy.{{cite news
|work=Ottawa Citizen
|date=February 15, 1946
|title=NHL Governors Reinstate "Babe" Pratt But Eliminate Right of Appeal in Future
|page=14
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zfYuAAAAIBAJ&dq=history%20vezina-trophy&pg=5962%2C2548457
|newspaper=The Globe and Mail
|last=DeGeer |first=Vern
|title=N.H.L. Players to Slice Juicy Playoff Melon |date=February 15, 1946 |page=15}} Manager Tommy Gorman of the Montreal Canadiens stated that if the trophy was awarded to his team, management would decide which of the Habs' two goaltenders (Paul Bibeault and Bill Durnan) would receive the trophy. However, at a banquet that October, NHL President Clarence Campbell indicated that while the league was considering changing the voting methods of the Calder, Hart, and Lady Byng Trophies, the criteria for the Vezina were not changing.{{cite news
|work=Windsor Daily Star
|date=October 31, 1946
|title=To Review Puck Plan—System for Awarding of Cups May Be Altered
|page=32
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5RI_AAAAIBAJ&pg=3568,4813034&dq=vezina&hl=en
}}
Since it was common for goaltenders to start every game before 1950, the Vezina usually went to the goaltender with the lowest personal goals against average in the league; however, there were two notable exceptions. George Hainsworth was awarded the inaugural trophy, while Clint Benedict had the lowest GAA in {{NHL Year|1926}}. Hainsworth's Canadiens allowed fewer goals as a team than Benedict's Maroons. Wilf Cude had the lowest GAA in {{NHL Year|1933}} in 30 games split between the Detroit Red Wings and Canadiens, but the Vezina was awarded to Charlie Gardiner, who started all 48 games for the Chicago Black Hawks, the team that allowed the fewest goals.
The National Hockey League lengthened the schedule to 70 games starting in {{NHL Year|1949}}. Before then, it was very common for a goaltender to play every minute of his team's season, and only two Vezina winners—Frank Brimsek in both {{NHL Year|1938}} (43 of 48 games) and {{NHL Year|1941}} (47 of 48 games) and Bill Durnan in {{NHL Year|1944}} (40 of 50 games)—failed to start every game for their respective clubs.
As teams started to use more than one goaltender in a season regularly, it became increasingly common for the goaltender with the lowest GAA not to be a member of the team that allowed the fewest goals. The Vezina continued to be awarded to the goaltender who started the most games for the team that allowed the fewest goals, but the Vezina winners of {{NHL Year|1954}}, {{NHL Year|1960}}, {{NHL Year|1962}} and {{NHL Year|1963}} did not have the lowest GAAs.
The National Hockey League began allowing teammates to split the Vezina Trophy following the 1964–65 NHL season. The Toronto Maple Leafs allowed 173 goals against (0 empty net goals), barely beating out Detroit's 175 goals against (3 empty net goals), and Chicago's 176 goals against (3 empty net goals). Toronto Terry Sawchuk played 36 games for the Leafs with a GAA of 2.56, while his teammate Johnny Bower played 34 games with a league-leading GAA of 2.38, but Sawchuk was to be the sole winner under the old criteria. During the season, the two agreed to split the $1000 prize money that came with the trophy if either of them won. At the end of the season, Sawchuk publicly stated that he would refuse the trophy if Bower would not also have his name inscribed.{{cite news
|work=Reading Eagle
|date=March 29, 1965
|title=Sawchuk Will Share Vezina Wealth with Johnny Bower
|page=17
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rA0rAAAAIBAJ&pg=2644,7458529&dq=bower+sawchuk+vezina&hl=en
}} The NHL subsequently changed the rule to allow any goaltender on the team who allowed the fewest goals against to qualify for the Vezina if he played at least 25 games, and applied this rule retroactively to Sawchuk and Bower.{{cite book |first=Douglas|last=Hunter |author-link=Douglas Hunter |title=A Breed Apart: An Illustrated History of Goaltending | year=1998 | publisher=Benchmark Press | page=103|isbn=1892049031 }}, Under this criterion, Turk Broda would have shared the Vezina that Al Rollins won in {{NHL Year|1950}}. This criterion was in place until {{NHL Year|1980}}.
The Vezina criteria had the trophy going to the goaltender(s) of the team that was best at preventing goals, not necessarily the best individual goaltender of the year. The best goaltender, as voted by the media, was the NHL first team All-Star. These often differed, such as in {{NHL Year|1979}} when Don Edwards and Bob Sauve shared the Vezina while Tony Esposito was named to the First Team. During the 1973–74 NHL season, the Chicago Black Hawks and Philadelphia Flyers finished tied for the fewest goals against; therefore their respective goaltenders, Tony Esposito and Bernie Parent, were both awarded the trophy, the only time that it would be shared between two players from different teams. For 1973–74 the media voted Parent a First Team All-Star and Esposito a Second Team All-Star. Glenn Hall, who played for Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis during his career, was voted the First Team All-Star goaltender the most times of any goaltender, seven times, but only won the Vezina Trophy as the goaltender on the team allowing the fewest goals against three times. By contrast, Jacques Plante, was awarded the Vezina Trophy seven times, six of those when with the very dominant Montreal Canadiens of the 1950s and 1960s, but was voted as the First Team All-Star only three times. Plante's seventh Vezina Trophy was shared with Hall as they shared goaltending duties for the St. Louis Blues in 1968–69 when that team allowed the fewest goals in the league; Hall was voted as the First Team All-Star that year.
=1981 to the present=
As of the 1981–82 NHL season, the Vezina Trophy has been given to the most outstanding goaltender as voted by the general managers of the NHL teams.{{cite web|url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/silver_splashvezina.htm|title=Vezina Trophy history|access-date=2007-08-17|publisher=LegendsofHockey.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808073925/http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/silver_splashvezina.htm|archive-date=2007-08-08}} Billy Smith of the New York Islanders was the first winner of the Vezina under the current system. The William M. Jennings Trophy, given to the goaltender(s) who play(s) a minimum of 25 games for the team that allows the fewest goals, serves the function of the old Vezina.
The voting is conducted at the end of the regular season by the 32 general managers of the teams in the National Hockey League, with all individual voters ranking their top three candidates on a 5–3–1 points system.{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/jon_dolezar/news/2003/04/01/dolie_insider/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030416003338/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/jon_dolezar/news/2003/04/01/dolie_insider/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 16, 2003|title=Foppa shows the most Hart|access-date=2007-08-17|date=2003-04-20|author=Jon Dolezar |publisher=SI.com}} Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL Awards ceremony after the playoffs.
=Records and distinctions=
Jacques Plante holds the record for winning the most Vezinas with seven, followed by Bill Durnan and Dominik Hasek, who have won six each. Hasek has won the most awards under the current criterion of voting for the best individual goalie. Players for the Montreal Canadiens have won the Vezina 29 times.
Only four players have won both the Vezina and Hart Memorial Trophy for the same season: Jacques Plante for {{NHL Year|1961}}; Dominik Hasek twice, for {{NHL Year|1996}} and {{NHL Year|1997}}; Jose Theodore for {{NHL Year|2001}}; and Carey Price for {{NHL Year|2014}}. Two other goaltenders have won the Vezina and Hart trophies in separate seasons: Roy Worters (Hart {{NHL Year|1928}}, Vezina {{NHL Year|1930}}) and Al Rollins (Vezina {{NHL Year|1950}}, Hart {{NHL Year|1953}}). Chuck Rayner is the only goaltender who has won the Hart Memorial Trophy (which he did in {{NHL Year|1949}}) but never won the Vezina Trophy.{{cite web |url=http://www.nhl.com/trophies/hart.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427123613/http://www.nhl.com/trophies/hart.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-04-27 |title=Hart Memorial Trophy history |access-date=2007-08-17 |publisher=NHL.com }}
Winners
=1927–81=
File:Turk Broda Stanley Cup-Vezina Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender.jpg, two-time winner.]]
File:Tony Esposito 1973.JPG, three-time winner.]]
File:Goaltender Patrick Roy playing for the Colorado Avalanche in 1999.jpg, three-time winner.]]
File:Dominator39.jpg, six-time winner.]]
File:MartinBrodeur.jpg, four-time winner.]]
File:MiikkaKiprusoff.jpg, one-time winner.]]
File:Tim thomas.JPG, two-time winner.]]
File:Sergei Bobrovsky Jackets.jpg, two-time winner.]]
File:Carey Price 2011-03-12.JPG, one-time winner.]]
File:Winnipeg Jets at Washington Capitals - January 18, 2022 - Connor Hellebuyck (51833872825).jpg, two-time winner]]
When introduced, the Vezina Trophy was awarded to the top goaltender in the league. Several winners, including Hainsworth in 1927 and Gardiner in 1934, did not have the lowest goals-against average. In 1946, the NHL Governors further clarified the criteria for winning. It was to go to the team with the fewest goals scored against it during the season. The goalie playing the most games for the team was awarded the trophy. In 1965, the NHL Governors began allowing teammates to share the Vezina Trophy. From 1965 to 1981, the Vezina was awarded to any goaltenders who played 25 or more games for the team allowing the fewest goals against.
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| Season
!Winner !Team !Win # |
|---|
| {{NHL Year|1926}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1927}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1928}}
| 3 |
| {{NHL Year|1929}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1930}}
|1 |
| {{NHL Year|1931}}
|1 |
| {{NHL Year|1932}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1933}}
|2 |
| {{NHL Year|1934}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1935}}
| 3 |
| {{NHL Year|1936}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1937}}
| 4 |
| {{NHL Year|1938}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1939}}
|1 |
| {{NHL Year|1940}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1941}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1942}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1943}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1944}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1945}}
| 3 |
| {{NHL Year|1946}}
| 4 |
| {{NHL Year|1947}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1948}}
| 5 |
| {{NHL Year|1949}}
| 6 |
| {{NHL Year|1950}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1951}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1952}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1953}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1954}}
| 3 |
| {{NHL Year|1955}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1956}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1957}}
| 3 |
| {{NHL Year|1958}}
| 4 |
| {{NHL Year|1959}}
| 5 |
| {{NHL Year|1960}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1961}}
| 6 |
| {{NHL Year|1962}}
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1963}}
| 1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1964}}
| rowspan="2"| Toronto Maple Leafs | 2 |
| Terry Sawchuk
| 4 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1965}}
| rowspan="2"| Montreal Canadiens | 1 |
| Charlie Hodge
| 2 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1966}}
| rowspan="2"| Chicago Black Hawks | 2 |
| Denis DeJordy
| 1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1967}}
| rowspan="2"| Montreal Canadiens | 2 |
| Rogatien Vachon
| 1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1968}}
| rowspan="2"| St. Louis Blues | 3 |
| Jacques Plante
| 7 |
| {{NHL Year|1969}}
| 1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1970}}
| rowspan="2"| New York Rangers |1 |
| Gilles Villemure
|1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1971}}
| rowspan="2"| Chicago Black Hawks | 2 |
| Gary Smith
| 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1972}}
| 1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1973}}
| 3 |
| Bernie Parent
| rowspan="2" | Philadelphia Flyers | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1974}}
| 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1975}}
| 2 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1976}}
| rowspan="2" |Montreal Canadiens | 3 |
| Michel Larocque
| 1 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1977}}
| rowspan="2" |Montreal Canadiens | 4 |
| Michel Larocque
| 2 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1978}}
| rowspan="2" |Montreal Canadiens | 5 |
| Michel Larocque
| 3 |
| rowspan="2"| {{NHL Year|1979}}
| rowspan="2"| Buffalo Sabres | 1 |
| Bob Sauve
| 1 |
| rowspan="3"| {{NHL Year|1980}}
| rowspan="3"| Montreal Canadiens | 1 |
| Michel Larocque
| 4 |
| Richard Sevigny
| 1 |
=1981–present=
The NHL adopted the current criteria for the Vezina Trophy beginning in 1981–82. The William M. Jennings Trophy was created as a new award for the goaltender(s) playing 25 or more games for the team allowing the fewest goals against.
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!Winner !Team !Win # |
|---|
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1981}} | {{sortname|Billy|Smith|Billy Smith (ice hockey)}} | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1982}}
| {{sortname|Pete|Peeters}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1983}} | {{sortname|Tom|Barrasso}} | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1984}}
| {{sortname|Pelle|Lindbergh}} | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1985}}
| {{sortname|John|Vanbiesbrouck}} | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|1986}}
| {{sortname|Ron|Hextall}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1987}} | {{sortname|Grant|Fuhr}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1988}} | {{sortname|Patrick|Roy}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1989}} | {{sortname|Patrick|Roy}} | 2 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1990}} | {{sortname|Ed|Belfour}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1991}} | {{sortname|Patrick|Roy}} | 3 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1992}} | {{sortname|Ed|Belfour}} | 2 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1993}} | {{sortname|Dominik|Hasek|Dominik Hašek}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1994}} | {{sortname|Dominik|Hasek|Dominik Hašek}} | 2 |
| {{NHL Year|1995}}
| {{sortname|Jim|Carey|Jim Carey (ice hockey)}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1996}} | {{sortname|Dominik|Hasek|Dominik Hašek}} | 3 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1997}} | {{sortname|Dominik|Hasek|Dominik Hašek}} | 4 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|1998}} | {{sortname|Dominik|Hasek|Dominik Hašek}} | 5 |
| {{NHL Year|1999}}
| {{sortname|Olaf|Kolzig|Olaf Kölzig}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|2000}} | {{sortname|Dominik|Hasek|Dominik Hašek}} | 6 |
| {{NHL Year|2001}}
| {{sortname|Jose|Theodore|José Théodore}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|2002}} | {{sortname|Martin|Brodeur}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|2003}} | {{sortname|Martin|Brodeur}} | 2 |
| {{NHL Year|2004}}
| colspan="3" align="center" |Season cancelled due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout |
| {{NHL Year|2005}}
| {{sortname|Miikka|Kiprusoff}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|2006}} | {{sortname|Martin|Brodeur}} | 3 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|2007}} | {{sortname|Martin|Brodeur}} | 4 |
| {{NHL Year|2008}}
| {{sortname|Tim|Thomas|Tim Thomas (ice hockey, born 1974)}} | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|2009}}
| {{sortname|Ryan|Miller}} | 1 |
| {{NHL Year|2010}}
| {{sortname|Tim|Thomas|Tim Thomas (ice hockey, born 1974)}} | 2 |
| bgcolor="#FBCCE7"
| {{NHL Year|2011}} | {{sortname|Henrik|Lundqvist|Henrik Lundqvist}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2012}} | {{sortname|Sergei|Bobrovsky|Sergei Bobrovsky}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#ffffcc"
| {{NHL Year|2013}} | {{sortname|Tuukka|Rask|Tuukka Rask}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#ffffcc"
| {{NHL Year|2014}} | {{sortname|Carey|Price|Carey Price}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#ffffcc"
| {{NHL Year|2015}} | {{sortname|Braden|Holtby|Braden Holtby}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2016}} | {{sortname|Sergei|Bobrovsky|Sergei Bobrovsky}} | 2 |
| {{NHL Year|2017}}
| {{sortname|Pekka|Rinne|Pekka Rinne}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2018}} | {{sortname|Andrei|Vasilevskiy|Andrei Vasilevskiy}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2019}} | {{sortname|Connor|Hellebuyck|Connor Hellebuyck}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#ffffcc"
| {{NHL Year|2020}} | {{sortname|Marc-Andre|Fleury|Marc-André Fleury}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2021}} | {{sortname|Igor|Shesterkin}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2022}} | {{sortname|Linus|Ullmark}} | 1 |
| bgcolor="#CFECEC"
| {{NHL Year|2023}} | {{sortname|Connor|Hellebuyck|Connor Hellebuyck}} | 2 |
See also
References
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- [http://www.hhof.com/htmlSilverware/silver_splashvezina.shtml Vezina Trophy history] at Legends of Hockey.net
- [http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=24965 Vezina Trophy] at NHL.com
- [http://hockeygoalies.org/awards/vezinavoting.html Vezina Trophy voting history] at [http://hockeygoalies.org The Goaltender Home Page]—Complete voting history from 1981 to 1982 (when the award switched to a voting criterion) to present.
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