Andrei Andrejewitsch Wassilewski

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Andrei Wassilewski
Date of birth July 25, 1994
place of birth Tyumen , Russia
size 191 cm
Weight 94 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 88
Catch hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2011 , 1st round, 7th position
Salawat Julajew Ufa
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 1st round, 19th position
Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2010-2013 Tolpar Ufa
2012-2014 Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2014-2016 Syracuse crunch
since 2014 Tampa Bay Lightning

Andrei Andrejewitsch Wassilewski ( Russian Андрей Андреевич Василевский , English transcription: Andrei Andreyevich Vasilevskiy ; born July 25, 1994 in Tyumen ) is a Russian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League since 2014 . In 2019 he received the Vezina Trophy as the best goalkeeper in the NHL.

Career

Andrei Wassilewski began his career in 2005 in the junior division of Salawat Julajew Ufa and went through all of the club's junior teams. In September 2010 he made his debut for Tolpar Ufa , the junior team of Salawat Julajew Ufa, in the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga (MHL) and was then part of the squad of the MHL team, in which his brother Alexei also played. During the KHL Junior Draft 2011 he was selected in the first round in seventh place by Salawat Yulayev. A year later he was selected 19th in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning .

On November 23, 2012 Vasilevsky made his debut in the Continental Hockey League for Salawat Yulayev Ufa in the game against HK Donbass Donetsk . He achieved his first victory in the KHL on January 8, 2013, when he did not concede a goal against HK Dynamo Moscow .

During the 2013/14 season he prevailed against experienced goalkeepers such as Andrei Volkov and Iiro Tarkki and became Salawat Yulayev's regular goalkeeper. He led his team to the playoff semifinals and was one of the KHL's best goalkeepers in the playoffs. At the beginning of May 2014, Wassilewski was given a three-year NHL entry contract by his draft team, Lighting.

After the debut 2014/15 season, in which the goalkeeper played 20 games for the Lightning, Wassilewski had to undergo an operation in September 2015 to remove a blood clot . It became known that he suffers from a form of thoracic outlet syndrome and will be absent for about two to three months.

In July 2016, the Russian signed a new three-year contract in Tampa, which will come into effect when his entry-level contract expires after the 2016-17 season and should earn him an average annual salary of $ 3.5 million. In addition, Wassilewski established himself in the NHL lineup of the Lightning at the beginning of the 2016/17 season and has been their goalkeeper since Ben Bishop left for Los Angeles .

In the 2017/18 season, Wassilewski led the league's goalkeepers in victories (44; together with Connor Hellebuyck ) and shutouts (8; together with Pekka Rinne ) and was therefore, alongside Hellebuyck and Rinne, a finalist for the Vezina Trophy , which, however, Rinne won. In addition, he set a new franchise record in Tampa with 44 wins . At the end of the 2018/19 season, he was honored with the Vezina Trophy as the best goalkeeper in the league and with the inclusion in the NHL First All-Star Team . He then signed a new eight-year contract with the Lightning at the end of July 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of US $ 9.5 million from the start of the 2020/21 season. At the time of signing, this would make him the goalkeeper with the third highest salary in the entire NHL, after Carey Price and Sergei Bobrowski .

International

Andrei Wassilewski with the Order of Honor (2014)

Andrei Wassilewski represented his home country in the junior division at a total of five world championships, the U18 junior world championship in 2010 , 2011 and 2012 and the U20 junior world championship in 2012 , 2013 and 2014 . He won one silver and three bronze medals. At the 2011 U18 Junior World Championship he played for Russia with his brother Alexei .

During the 2013/14 season he made his debut for the Sbornaja and was nominated for the Men's World Championship in 2014 , in which he completed two missions with excellent statistical values ​​and won the world title. In recognition of the world championship title, the Sbornaja subsequently received the Order of Honor .

He was also nominated for the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , but was not used. At the 2017 World Cup , he won the bronze medal with the team and was named the best goalkeeper and was voted into the tournament's All-Star Team .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2013 KHL rookie of the month September
  • 2013 KHL rookie of the month November
  • 2014 KHL rookie of the month March
  • 2014 KHL rookie of the month April
  • 2014 Pris Alexei Tscherepanow ( Best Rookie of the KHL )
  • 2014 Order of Honor

International

  • 2017 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 2017 World Cup best goalkeeper
  • 2017 World Championship All-Star Team
  • 2019 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 2019 World Cup best goalkeeper
  • 2019 World Championship All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N OTN Min GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2010/11 Tolpar Ufa MHL 14th 8th 2 4th 730 22nd 3 1.81 93.7 2 1 1 87 3 0 2.05 93.6
2011/12 Tolpar Ufa MHL 27 15th 8th 3 793 55 0 2.23 93.1 2 0 2 120 5 0 2.50 93.1
2012/13 Tolpar Ufa MHL 27 17th 6th 4th 1613 52 3 1.93 93.0 3 0 2 189 9 0 2.85 89.7
2012/13 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 8th 4th 1 0 298 11 1 2.22 92.4 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 28 14th 8th 5 1601 59 3 2.21 92.3 18th 9 9 1144 38 1 1.99 93.4
2014/15 Syracuse crunch AHL 25th 14th 6th 5 1469 60 2 2.45 91.7 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 16 7th 5 1 864 34 1 2.36 91.8 4th 1 1 113 6th 0 3.19 89.5
2015/16 Syracuse crunch AHL 12 7th 4th 1 711 23 1 1.94 93.5 - - - - - - - -
2015/16 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 24 11 10 0 1259 58 1 2.76 91.0 8th 3 4th 434 20th 0 2.76 92.5
2016/17 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 50 23 17th 7th 2832 123 2 2.61 91.7 - - - - - - - -
2017/18 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 65 44 17th 3 3826 167 8th 2.62 92.0 17th 11 6th 1000 43 0 2.58 91.8
2018/19 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 53 39 10 4th 3204 128 6th 2.40 92.5 4th 0 4th 236 15th 0 3.83 85.6
MHL total 68 40 16 11 3820 129 6th 2.03 93.1 7th 1 5 397 17th 0 2.08 89.7
KHL total 36 18th 9 5 1899 70 4th 2.21 92.3 18th 9 9 1144 38 1 1.99 93.4
AHL total 37 21st 10 6th 2180 83 3 2.28 92.3 - - - - - - - -
NHL overall 208 124 59 15th 11893 510 18th 2.55 91.9 33 15th 15th 1782 84 0 2.83 91.2

International

Represented Russia in:

year team event result Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2010 Russia U18 World Cup 4th Place 5 2 2 272 12 1 2.65 89.7
2011 Russia U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 4th 2 344 15th 0 2.62 93.6
2011 Russia HIMT 3rd place, bronze 4th 3.14 90.6
2012 Russia U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 5 4th 1 299 10 2 2.01 95.3
2012 Russia U18 World Cup 5th place 5 2 3 299 11 1 2.21 92.2
2013 Russia U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 4th 3 1 265 8th 1 1.81 95.0
2014 Russia U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 4th 2 328 10 0 1.83 93.3
2014 Russia WM 1st place, gold 2 2 0 120 1 1 0.50 98.5
2017 Russia WM 3rd place, bronze 9 6th 2 523 15th 3 1.72 93.6
2019 Russia WM 3rd place, bronze 8th 6th 1 488 13 2 1.60 94.6
Juniors overall 35 2.31 92.9
Men overall 19th 14th 3 1131 29 6th 1.32 95.5

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

family

His father Andrei was also an ice hockey goalkeeper, his brother Alexei is active as a defender .

Web links

Commons : Andrei Wassilewski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eliteprospects.com: 2011 KHL Draft
  2. ↑ Lightning sign 2012 first-round pick Andrei Vasilevski. Tampa Bay Lightning , May 6, 2014, accessed May 7, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Lightning goalie Vasilevskiy to miss 2-3 months. nhl.com, September 4, 2015, accessed September 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Lightning sign goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy to three-year contract extension. nhl.com, July 1, 2016, accessed March 2, 2017 .
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personal data
SURNAME Wassilewski, Andrei Andrejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasilevsky, Andrei (English spelling); Vasilevskiy, Andrei (English spelling); Василевский, Андрей Андреевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyumen , Russia