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 to ensure the backup to get some game time and to get their minutes at the minimum by force.
Here are this year's vacation recipients:
Chicago John Gibson 2467
Colorado Anton Khudobin 2561
Detroit Marc-Andre Fleury 2820
Edmonton Mikko Koskinen 2456
Pittsburgh Elvis Merzlikins 2526
Vancouver Thatcher Demko 2539
Here is the breakdown below, as of today:
Boston Philipp Grubauer 1948
Boston Laurent Brossoit 886
Boston Alex Stalock 449
Buffalo Jordan Binnington 2229
Buffalo David Rittich 801
Buffalo Michael Dipietro 179
Calgary Jake Oettinger 1943
Calgary Jonathan Quick 1262
Carolina Robin Lehner 2040
Carolina Jonathan Bernier 1027
Carolina Michael Hutchinson 124
Carolina Chris Driedger 65
Chicago John Gibson 2467
Chicago Samuel Montembeault 712
Colorado Anton Khudobin 2561
Colorado James Reimer 632
Columbus Darcy Kuemper 1902
Columbus Alex Nedeljkovic 1002
Columbus Scott Wedgewood 304
Dallas Ilya Sorokin 2128
Dallas Carter Hutton 813
Dallas Zach Fucale 230
Dallas Ville Husso 59
Detroit Marc-Andre Fleury 2820
Detroit Brian Elliott 416
Edmonton Mikko Koskinen 2456
Edmonton Andrew Hammond 731
Florida Semyon Varlamov 2358
Florida Kevin Lankinen 696
Florida Aaron Dell 120
Los Angeles Matt Murray 1581
Los Angeles Casey DeSmith 1149
Los Angeles Tuukka Rask 475
Los Angeles Spencer Knight 64
Minnesota Cam Talbot 1935
Minnesota Antti Raanta 901
Minnesota Erik Kallgren 59
Montreal Tristan Jarry 1594
Montreal Kaapo Kahkonen 1299
Montreal Cayden Primeau 348
Nashville Juuse Saros 2096
Nashville Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 681
Nashville Filip Gustavsson 430
New Jersey MacKenzie Blackwood 2005
New Jersey Ville Husso 818
New Jersey Daniel Vladar 241
New Jersey Joel Hofer 185
NY Islanders Mike Smith 1744
NY Islanders Jaroslav Halak 1300
NY Islanders Isaiah Saville 515
NY Islanders Hugo Alnefelt 183
NY Rangers Igor Shesterkin 2174
NY Rangers Alexandar Georgiev 724
NY Rangers Dustin Tokarski 309
NY Rangers Keith Kinkaid 50
Ottawa Frederik Andersen 1872
Ottawa Joonas Korpisalo 1644
Ottawa Mads Sogaard 140
Philadelphia Carey Price 1360
Philadelphia Carter Hart 1102
Philadelphia Andrei Vasilevskiy 296
Philadelphia Anthony Stolarz 176
Philadelphia Tyler Wall 119
Pittsburgh Elvis Merzlikins 2526
Pittsburgh Ilya Samsonov 723
San Jose Jacob Markstrom 2017
San Jose Cal Petersen 1181
San Jose Jon Gillies 180
San Jose Joseph Woll 80
Seattle Kraken Connor Hellebuyck 1769
Seattle Kraken Braden Holtby 1256
Seattle Kraken Alex Lyon 173
St. Louis Martin Jones 1533
St. Louis Petr Mrazek 1077
St. Louis Stuart Skinner 685
Tampa Bay Andrei Vasilevskiy 1707
Tampa Bay Sergei Bobrovsky 1172
Tampa Bay Carter Hart 188
Tampa Bay Connor Ingram 157
Toronto Jack Campbell 1933
Toronto Anton Forsberg 1145
Toronto Adam Werner 188
Vancouver Thatcher Demko 2539
Vancouver Pavel Francouz 663
Vancouver Eric Comrie 59
Vegas Golden Knights Vitek Vanecek 2064
Vegas Golden Knights Adin Hill 1328
Washington Jake Allen 2017
Washington Thomas Greiss 938
Washington Daniil Tarasov 178
Washington Samuel Ersson 60
Winnipeg Linus Ullmark 1521
Winnipeg Jeremy Swayman 912
Winnipeg Malcolm Subban 457
Winnipeg Chris Driedger 307
Winnipeg Kyle Keyser 58
