Vadim KuznetsovCorrespondent SportAll materialsAnother brilliant goaltender from Russia has appeared in the NHL. In 2013 and 2017, it was won by Sergey Bobrovsky, in 2019 it was won by Andrey Vasilevsky, and today it is the turn of the New York Rangers number one. In the history of his success, in the first place, of course, is character. Talent, reaction, technique and everything else that helps goaltenders hit the puck, he does not hold, plus the ability to play with a stick and read the game, unique by the standards of his colleagues. But all this would not be worth even a gram of metal, from which the «Vezina Trophy» is poured, if Shesterkin were not so purposeful and self-confident. Instead of a quiet life in St. Petersburg and playing for SKA, he chose the crazy New York Rangers, which buried the careers of many young and very promising goalkeepers. Unlike many goalkeepers from the KHL, Shesterkin was not scared off by a bilateral contract and exile in the AHL. And he came to North America to compete with the best goalkeeper in the history of the Rangers, Henrik Lundqvist, who, despite his age, was not going to give up positions.
