During the offseason, tampabaylightning.com will talk to Lightning players to get their first-hand account of a moment from the 2017-18 season, an update on their summer or just what's on their mind currently.
Today, we chat with Andrei Vasilevskiy, who returned to Tampa a couple weeks ago to begin informal workouts at the Ice Sports Forum. Vasilevskiy set a number of Lightning records - most wins (44), most saves (1,908), most shutouts (8), and most consecutive victories (9) - and was a Vezina finalist during the 2017-18 campaign in leading Tampa Bay to the Eastern Conference Final. Here, the 24-year-old goalie recaps the summer in his homeland, what it was like in Russia for the World Cup and how, even after all these years, Guns N' Roses can still rock out with the best of them, as told to tampabaylightning.com beat writer Bryan Burns.
In their own words: Andrei Vasilevskiy
The Vezina Trophy finalist has had a busy summer, relaxing at home in Russia and now getting back to work in Tampa Bay
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