That was Lightning reliever Andrei Vasilevskiy after Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. The request wasn’t anything new. Vasilevskiy is still learning English, word by word, and feels a little uncomfortable in TV interviews.
It takes everyone to march two months to a Stanley Cup, all sizes — and ages. So it was that Saturday night, as the 20-year-old Vasilevskiy sat peacefully in the corner of the Lightning bench at Amalie Arena, his world turned upside down. The Bolts’ backup goalie saw main man Ben Bishop skate to the bench, not once, but twice.
Meet the Chicago Blackhawks, youngster.