Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail authorThe imminent departure of the best team of the NHL regular season from the Stanley Cup of the Florida Panthers after a humiliating defeat in the series against the Tampa Bay Lightning (0-4) expectedly developed talk of personnel changes in the camp of the Panthers. First of all, the candidacy of Andrew Brunett fell into doubt. «Will he remain as head coach, still being in the status of acting?» — this question hovers over Sunrise like a cloud. However, the future of Sergey Bobrovsky in Florida seems no less vague. The day before, well-known insider Elliott Friedman shared interesting information on a podcast for Sportsnet: the Panthers management was considering saying goodbye to the top Russian goalkeeper. «Bobrovsky's statistics in the playoffs were far from excellent, although I don't see his performance as the reason Florida lost. Blaming him for a failure when the whole team scored only three goals in four series games with Tampa is crazy. But I suspect the Panthers are going all out tried to trade Bobrovsky this year. At least they wanted to lay the groundwork for a possible deal. I don’t know if it’s realistic to trade Bobrovsky, but I have information that the club was really working on it, «the journalist said. This data looks crazy. Yes, Bobrovsky does not have the best reputation for playing in the playoffs, but only an amateur in hockey or a person who has a personal dislike for the Russian goalkeeper can see in him the reason for the failure of Florida in matches with Tampa. Even in ten games in two playoff series, Bobrovsky made so many great saves that it would not be difficult to compile a collection of highlights.However, in contrast to Bobrovsky, the magnificent Andrei Vasilevsky is mentioned. Tampa's goaltender, even with not the best game against Toronto, has the best save percentage (93.2%), while Bob is in the bottom of the top 10 of all playoff goaltenders in this indicator (91.1). %). At the same time, the Florida goalkeeper earns more than his compatriot and counterpart from the Lightning — Sergey's cap hit under this contract is $ 10 million, and if you take into account his full salary for the past season, then it reaches 12 million. Vasilevsky's amounts for similar components are $9.5 million and $11 million, respectively. This difference looks significant for the reason that the Tampa goalkeeper gives results and leads his team to the third Stanley Cup in a row, while Florida does not claim the championship.
