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NEW YORK - Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks was named a finalist for the Vezina Trophy, given annually to the NHLs top goaltender. Pekka Rinne of the Nashville Predators and Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins are the other award finalists, as announced by the league on Friday. The winner will be announced at the NHL awards banquet June 22 in Las Vegas. Luongo was a big reason why Vancouver finished the regular season with the NHLs best record. He posted a 38-15-7 record in 60 appearances and a career-best 2.11 goal-against average to go with a .928 save percentage. Luongo is a Vezina finalist for the third time, finishing second in voting in 2007 and third in 2004. Luongo said he was pleased with the nomination but that his focus now is helping Vancouver win Game 6 of their NHL playoff series against the Chicago Blackhawks. "Its an honour," he said. "Its nice to see your work was rewarded. But obviously, at this time, our focus, especially for me, is on Sunday. Well probably enjoy more when the season is done." Canuck coach Alain Vigneault said Luongo being considered for the awarded reflects on the whole Canuck organization. "It means that during the regular season we were good," said Vigneault. "Now its playoff hockey and we need to be good at this time." Rinne had a 33-22-9 record with Nashville this season, posting a 2.12 GAA and .930 save percentage and six shutouts in 64 games. He was second among NHL goaltenders in save percentage and third in goals-against average. Thomas enjoyed a banner campaign following off-season hip surgery. He won his first eight decisions, a Bruins team record, and became the first NHL goalie to win his first nine road games since Chicagos Glenn Hall in 1965-66. The 2009 Vezina Trophy winner had a league-best 2.00 GAA and posted a 35-11-9 record and .938 save percentage, eclipsing Dominik Haseks .937 mark with Buffalo in 1998-99 as the best since the statistic was introduced in 1976-77. Surprisingly, Montreal goalie Carey Price was not a finalist despite a solid season. Price finished tied with Luongo for most wins for a goalie, was fourth overall with a .928 save percentage and eighth with a 2.35 GAA while making a league-high 72 appearances. "Im a little bit disappointed but it is what it is," Price said Friday. "Whoever was nominated deserves to be there and I wont take anything away from them." MLB Jerseys China . Third-seeded Sam Stosur took advantage of shaky serving from Petra Cetkovska to win 6-3, 6-2 in the third round and earn her first back-to-back victories of the year, while fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska saved two set points in the first set on her way to beating Varvara Lepchenko of the United States 7-5, 6-1. Wholesale MLB Jerseys . -- While Aaron Rodgers is hurt, another star player looks as if hell soon be returning to the Packers. http://www.salejerseyswholesale.com/Mlb-jerseys.html . 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The loss left the Italian side last in in its Champions League group. "Im not very happy about going back to Turkey, it didnt go well for us recently," Juve director Pavel Nedved said. "Itt will be a long and hard trip.ddddddddddddWe will have to find the right motivation to approach the game as Juventus should." One incentive for Juventus is that the May 14 final will be played in its home stadium in Turin. Napoli, which also dropped out of the Champions League, was drawn to play away first against Premier League side Swansea. Viktoria Plzen plays Shakhtar Donetsk in a pairing of teams which started the season in the Champions League. Porto, which won the 2011 Europa League with Villas-Boas as coach, will play Eintracht Frankfurt. Dynamo Kyiv hosts Valencia, the 2004 winner. Sevilla, which won in 2006 and 07, is away to Maribor. First-leg matches are played Feb. 20, with return legs on Feb. 27. UEFA also drew the last-16 pairings which will be played in March. 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