{"id":39889,"date":"2019-01-08T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=39889"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:21:23","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-andrei-vasilevskiy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/08\/tampa-bay-lightning-andrei-vasilevskiy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Andrei Vasilevskiy To Replace Price At 2019 NHL All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> goalie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vasilan02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a><\/strong> will replace <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/priceca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carey Price<\/a><\/strong> at the 2019 NHL All-Star\u00a0Game in a few weeks. Price announced that he will not be attending a few days ago. However, Vasilevskiy will now join Lightning teammates <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stamkst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Stamkos<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kucheni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a><\/strong> for the Atlantic division.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vasilan02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TBLightning<\/a> has been added to the Atlantic Division roster for the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Game, replacing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/priceca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carey Price<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLAllStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLAllStar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yeOFFVOgIX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yeOFFVOgIX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PR_NHL\/status\/1082722026597568513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Andrei Vasilevskiy Lights Out<\/h1>\n<p>Andrei Vasilevskiy has been lights out this season. He has posted a 16-4-2 record. Along with that, he also has a 0.920 save percentage. Vasilevskiy is in his 5th NHL season. However, a few of those were as a backup behind former starter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bishobe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Bishop<\/a><\/strong>. Vasilevskiy has since taken over the net in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Vasilevskiy posts a career 0.918 save percentage, with 2.62 goals against average in 177 games. He will join Red Wings goalie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/howarja02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Howard<\/a><\/strong> in net for Team Atlantic. The All-Star game is being held in San Jose on January 26th.<\/p>\n<h1>Carey Price Will Sit Out<\/h1>\n<p>Price has decided to sit and watch this all-star game from home. This wasn&#8217;t a big surprise when announced. Price has been battling multiple injuries this season. As well, it is very likely he wants to spend time with his family. He is the second player who announced he would not be going. Alexander Ovechkin also came out and said he would not be attending.<\/p>\n<p>Both players will have to sit out one game for missing. The suspension will be either the game before or after the all-star game. The Canadiens play the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/category\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> the game before, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/devils\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> the game after. Both are teams doing worse than they wished this year. With goalies, it is not as big of a deal for a one-game suspension because the team can start their backup as they may anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible Price sits against the Coyotes who just saw yet another injury to forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmani01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Nick<\/strong> Schmaltz<\/a>. The Coyotes have had a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/01\/08\/arizona-coyotes-nick-schmaltz-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long list of those<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"dTkR3qllRf5JWa-1ZK5X9Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1072890176\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'dTkR3qllRf5JWa-1ZK5X9Q',sig:'RMKvoHZjtZi5myTftiFC3aCMOYS-Z7D0hCx84eldhGs=',w:'594px',h:'381px',items:'1072890176',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today that Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy will replace Carey Price at the 2019 NHL All-Star\u00a0Game in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2473,"featured_media":39890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[3854,809,199,152,42],"class_list":["post-39889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-2019-nhl-all-star-game","tag-andrei-vasilevskiy","tag-carey-price","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}