As goes Andrei Vasilevskiy, so go the playoff chances for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Look, we don’t like it any more than anyone else, but those are the rules. No matter how many points Nikita Kucherov puts up (and ESPN has him on pace for 135 this year) or how many goals Brayden Point scores (47 per ESPN’s projections) it will always come down to the play of the man in net. So, through 14 Tampa Bay Lightning games, how are things looking for The Big Cat?
Well, just like the team in front of him, October was really good, and November hasn’t been great.