Buffalo Sabres prospect Devon Levi was posting his first professional shutout on Friday and you can certainly say that he earned it.
Levi was backstopping the Rochester Americans to a 3-0 American Hockey League victory over the Syracuse Crunch. Among his 20 saves, a third-period stop during a Syracuse power play would classify as both spectacular and acrobatic.
First, Levi would snake out his right pad to reject a point shot by the Thunderbirds Gabriel Sziurc. The puck then bounced up in the air. Levi first lunged to his right to try and swat it away with his stick. However, the rubber disk instead decided to make a dive for the bottom left corner of Levi’s net.
Instantly, the 23-year-old goalie was pulling off the netminding version of the Savardian Spinorama. Contorting his body in a swirling motion Levi was able to sprawl and parry the puck away with his stick before Crunch forward Dylan Duke could shovel it in the net.
Somehow Devon Levi kept this puck out of the net.
— 2 Goalies 1 Mic (@2Goalies1Mic) November 30, 2024
One of the most unreal stick saves you’ll ever see en route to his first career shutout
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Since being assigned to the AHL Americans by the parent Sabres, Levi is 3-1-1 in five games with a 2.33 goals-against average and .896 save percentage.