Marc-Andre Fleury won the Vezina Trophy in 2021 as the league’s best goalie.
Less than a month later, he was traded to the Blackhawks for the simple acquisition price of prospect Mikael Hakkarainen.
Fleury won the Vezina with a .928 save percentage, 15.42 goals saved above expected and a 27.7 goals above replacement mark (5 wins above replacement). Fleury beat two other goaltenders who went on deep playoff runs in 2021: Philipp Grubauer of the Avalanche and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Lightning. In fact, Vasilevskiy’s loss is what Nikita Kucherov was talking about when he said “number one bullshit.