The Rangers keeper has stopped 616 shots in 18 games this season. Thus, he broke the record of four-time Stanley Cup winner Patrick Roy for the number of saves in a single playoff. His best result was 601 saves in 20 games in the 1992/1993 season. Then he won the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens.
Russian Shesterkin – the author of the historic Stanley Cup playoff record
Note that in the list of the best goaltenders in terms of the number of saves for the playoffs, Rua took three lines, from 26 to 28. Shesterkin surpassed the three best Canadian results (601 in 1992/1993; 598 in the season 1995/1996 and play-off-1998/1999), as well as the exploits of Braden Holtby (589 during the 2017/2018 season), Chris Osgood (590 during the 2008/2009 season), Marc-André Fleury (594 in the 2017/2018 season), Ed Belfour (606 in the 1999/2000 season) and Bill Ranford (612 in the 1989/1990 season). Now the Russian goalkeeper “Rangers” shares 22-23 places with Ben Bishop (616 in the 2014/2015 season).
Source: Sport
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