In order to counter another one of EA's botched goalie fatigue factor, VHA enforced a backup goalie minimum of 900 minutes played across the league many seasons ago and is still true today.
With only a handful of games remaining in the regular season, all teams that aren't at the required minimum will have their #1 goalie temporarily removed from the team in order for the backup to get some game time and to get their minutes at the minimum by force.
Here are this year's vacation recipients:
COL-Anton Khudobin
NJ-MacKenzie Blackwood
STL-Jordan Binnington
TB-Andrei Vasilevskiy
Here is the breakdown below, as of today:
Team First Last SumOfMin
Anaheim John Gibson 1742
Anaheim Aaron Dell 1275
Anaheim Samuel Montembeault 189
Boston Tuukka Rask 1791
Boston Alex Stalock 1183
Boston Collin Delia 159
Buffalo Martin Jones 2130
Buffalo Chris Driedger 1030
Buffalo Oscar Dansk 60
Calgary David Rittich 1858
Calgary Devan Dubnyk 1166
Carolina Robin Lehner 1805
Carolina Alexandar Georgiev 1343
Chicago Jacob Markstrom 2223
Chicago Laurent Brossoit 801
Chicago Ville Husso 60
Colorado Anton Khudobin 2386 - vacation winner!
Colorado Antti Raanta 512
Colorado Adam Huska 181
Columbus Darcy Kuemper 1700
Columbus Mikko Koskinen 1313
Columbus Alex Nedeljkovic 241
Dallas Marc-Andre Fleury 2193
Dallas Ilya Sorokin 691
Dallas Charlie Lindgren 281
Detroit Frederik Andersen 2220
Detroit Brian Elliott 756
Detroit Jonas Johansson 152
Edmonton Mike Smith 1869
Edmonton Ben Bishop 967
Edmonton James Reimer 302
Florida Semyon Varlamov 2153
Florida Kevin Lankinen 928
Florida Landon Bow 178
Los Angeles Matt Murray 2310
Los Angeles Casey DeSmith 823
Minnesota Joonas Korpisalo 2252
Minnesota Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 346
Minnesota Kaapo Kahkonen 321
Minnesota Spencer Knight 172
Montreal Tristan Jarry 1896
Montreal Pavel Francouz 782
Montreal Kaapo Kahkonen 487
Nashville Jonathan Bernier 1812
Nashville Juuse Saros 1252
New Jersey MacKenzie Blackwood 2298 - vacation winner!
New Jersey Ryan Miller 705
New Jersey Antoine Bibeau 78
NY Islanders Pekka Rinne 1591
NY Islanders Jaroslav Halak 1580
NY Rangers Linus Ullmark 2307
NY Rangers Igor Shesterkin 851
Ottawa Carter Hart 1611
Ottawa Cam Talbot 876
Ottawa Petr Mrazek 615
Philadelphia Petr Mrazek 1467
Philadelphia Sergei Bobrovsky 1235
Philadelphia Carter Hart 488
Philadelphia Daniel Vladar 118
Philadelphia Philippe Desrosiers 60
Pittsburgh Ilya Samsonov 1579
Pittsburgh Elvis Merzlikins 1434
San Jose Cal Petersen 1869
San Jose James Reimer 1142
San Jose Scott Wedgewood 182
San Jose Lukas Dostal 59
San Jose Anton Forsberg 40
St. Louis Jordan Binnington 2600 - vacation winner!
St. Louis Marcus Hogberg 553
Tampa Bay Andrei Vasilevskiy 2384 - vacation winner!
Tampa Bay Curtis McElhinney 641
Tampa Bay Connor Ingram 59
Toronto Braden Holtby 2092
Toronto Jack Campbell 866
Toronto Artyom Zagidulin 179
Vancouver Carey Price 2002
Vancouver Thatcher Demko 1156
Vegas Thomas Greiss 1417
Vegas Vitek Vanecek 1244
Vegas Adin Hill 477
Washington Philipp Grubauer 1776
Washington Jake Allen 1462
Washington Gilles Senn 2
Winnipeg Connor Hellebuyck 1782
Winnipeg Malcolm Subban 1108
Winnipeg Jeremy Swayman 221