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Georges, the fifth of eight children, was born on January 21, 1887, in Chicoutimi, Quebec, to Georges-Henri Vézina, a local baker and his wife Clara Belley. [1] Georges attended school at the Petit Séminaire de Chicoutimi from 1898 until the age of fourteen, when he left the school to help at his father's bakery.
Vézina is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Antoine Vézina (21st century), Canadian actor; Frédérique Vézina (born c. 1977), Canadian singer; Georges Vézina (1887–1926), Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
Vézina, born in 1849, was the son of François Vézina, a house painter and amateur musician who taught his son to play the piano. [1] As a youngster, Vézina briefly studied under Calixa Lavallée but, for the most part, he was a self-taught musician.
In 1998, Vézina caused controversy in English Canada by stating that she had never been a Canadian federalist. [1] Vézina served as vice-president of the Conseil des relations internationales de Montréal, president of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois and of the Conférence des peuples de langue française. She died on ...
The Vezina continued to be awarded to the goaltender who started the most games for the team that allowed the fewest goals, but the Vezina winners of 1954–55, 1960–61, 1962–63 and 1963–64 did not have the lowest GAAs. The National Hockey League began allowing teammates to split the Vezina Trophy following the 1964–65 NHL season.
Frédérique Vézina (born c. 1977) is a Canadian operatic soprano.Vézina gained recognition when she made her Canadian Opera Company debut in 2002–2003 as Lisa and Mascha in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades.
A 2000 alumnus of the Université du Québec à Montréal with a bachelor's degree in theatre, Vézina has a strong improvisational theatre background, having performed in the Quebec improvisational leagues, the Ligue universitaire d'improvisation (LUI, league of Université Laval), the Ligue d'improvisation centrale de l'UQAM (LicUQAM, league of the Université du Québec à Montréal), the ...
Bobrovsky is a two-time Vezina Trophy winner, winning in the 2012–13 and 2016–17 seasons while a member of the Blue Jackets. In February 2023, Bobrovsky became the winningest Russian goaltender in NHL history, surpassing Evgeni Nabokov. Bobrovsky won the Stanley Cup with the Panthers in 2024.