I’m going to preface this by admitting that the Lightning have played a bit up and down, and this has certainly affected the performances of both Ben Bishop and Andrei Vasilevskiy. The losses of Steven Stamkos and Anton Stralman have not helped the situation. Looking at this season’s body of work, though, Vasilevskiy has been more consistent and put up better performances.
With the expansion draft coming next summer, the Lightning eventually will have to make a final decision between Bishop and Vasilevskiy. The first option is to re-sign Bishop to an exorbitant deal and hope that he will continue to perform over the next three-to-five seasons at a high level.