Vasilevskiy was horrible. Literally all 4 goals were stoppable at best, and a couple of them were really bad.
He looked unsure of himself and inspired no confidence all night long.
He had surgery before last season. He actually missed the first 1.5 months or so of the season. It looked like they were in danger of missing the playoffs, but even him having a down year was still an upgrade over Johansson, so they wound up being fine.
I don’t hold one down year/bad year against a goalie/player, but it’s when it starts becoming a trend that it’s worrying. Like when it happened two straight years with Cory, which eventually turned into not one good NHL season for the rest of his career.
Too early to say if it was the injury and recovery from it last year that caused the down year or if this is kind of who he is now.