It should come as no surprise that Tim Thomas appears to have taken ... for playing for the team with the NHL’s best GAA. Thomas won the Vezina in 2010-11 at 37. The Pittsburgh Penguins move ...

Take a moment and think of the NHL’s best goaltenders. You know, the ones whose teams pencil their guy in for 55 starts every year. Durable. Consistent.

No goaltender has won the Vezina and Stanley Cup in the same season since Tim Thomas (2011). The Eastern Conference has produced six of the last 10 Vezina winners.

Some might forget that Tom Barrasso played in seven games with the Ottawa Senators in the 1999-00 season, but he did.

The Penguins added Phil Kessel, Tyler Biggs, Tim Erixon and a second-round selection ... Barrasso won the Calder and Vezina trophies with the Sabres ... but also seemed to irritate enough people ...

He won five Vezina Trophies in the next six years ... He broke his own mark twice more times and held it until 2010-11, when Tim Thomas bested it. On top of running laps around the NHL, Hasek ...

By 2009-10, he was splitting duty with veteran journeyman Tim Thomas, and the two made magic ... His efforts earned him the Vezina Trophy, not to mention a bronze medal at the Olympics, where ...

Aside from Tim Thomas, who had been temporarily replaced ... Those numbers would earn him a spot as a Vezina Trophy finalist. Needless to say, the Bruins’ backs were against the wall.