Tuukka Rask RUMORS & NEWS

Boston Herald "The Bruins had just pulled off a job that seemed impossible Saturday night in Chicago. They somehow stopped the speeding Mack truck that was the Blackhawks offense in the first period of Game 2 and slowly but surely pushed it in reverse, seizing control of a game that was going horribly wrong and..." June 17

WEEI Boston "While the Blackhawks were threatening to blow open Game 2 and send the Stanley Cup final back to Boston with a 2-0 lead, it was Tuukka Rask who was the difference. The Hawks out-shot the Bruins 19-4 but had only a Patrick Sharp goal to show for it. Claude Julien was quick to thank his..." June 16

Boston Herald "The Chicago Blackhawks finally did what the Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t in order to score goals against Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. The result was a 4-3 triple-overtime victory last night at the United Center in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. The Blackhawks in one game doubled the Penguins’..." June 13

Boston Herald "Ever since June 15, 2011, Tuukka Rask’s yearning to lead a team to a Stanley Cup championship has been on overdrive. Rask already has one ring from his days as Tim Thomas’ backup on the 2011 Bruins, but he heads into the 2013 Stanley Cup finals against the Chicago Blackhawks as the go-to guy in..." June 12

Boston Herald "Rask the man amid mayhem Saturday, June 8, 2013 PrintEmail Comments (2) By: Stephen Harris, Bruins Beat For Tuukka Rask to finish the job, it came down to an utterly insane final 30 seconds and an absolutely perfect last, what, tenth of a second? There was so much history in the air at..." June 08

NHL.com "Everyone took the ice Wednesday for the Boston Bruins' morning skate, which featured one minor scare. During one drill goaltender Tuukka Rask took a teammate's shot off his shoulder and he reacted by skating toward the bench and slamming his stick against the TD Garden boards. It took less than..." June 05

CSN New England "Parallels have been made between Tuukka Rask and Tim Thomas over the last couple of days because A) they were teammates just a season ago and B) Rask’s statistics are remarkably similar to Thomas’ numbers at this point in Boston’s Stanley Cup run two years ago. But that’s really where..." June 03

NHL.com "Claude Julien had a few words of advice for goalie Tuukka Rask after the final horn sounded Saturday night at TD Garden, officially sending the Boston Bruins off to the Eastern Conference Finals. "You can start laughing now," Julien said, repeating the words he told Rask. Talk about relief..." May 26

CSN New England "Tuukka Rask said before this season began that it was going to be a “prove it” year for both himself and the Bruins. Since being awarded the No. 1 goaltender gig prior to the season after Tim Thomas went AWOL, Rask has confidently gone about asserting himself as the franchise goaltender for a..." May 26

North Jersey "Tuukka Rask will take another shot at closing out a playoff series today when the Boston Bruins host the Rangers for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Rask is only 26, but he’s already dangerously close to becoming known as a goaltender that can’t finish. After a head-scratching..." May 25

Boston Herald "Unlike some gentlemen who share his line of work, goalie Tuukka Rask has never been one to make excuses, or rationalize, or otherwise try to duck blame that comes his way. When he does something bad, he is his own most withering critic. “It was just awful,” said Rask of his goaltending..." May 24

Boston Herald "After 10 games in the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas was 7-3, with a 2.12 goals-against average and .935 save percentage. He was the talk of the postseason, already proclaimed not just the best goalie in the NHL but the best player, period. After 10 games in the 2013..." May 23

CSN New England "Forget about the comparisons to Tim Thomas, which Tuukka Rask was surprisingly yet not surprisingly asked about after Sunday's Game 2 win over the New York Rangers at the TD Garden. This isn't about matching what Thomas did in the Bruins' Stanley Cup run two years ago. This is about overcoming..." May 20

Boston Herald "If both the mythology and your own eyes are to be believed, Henrik Lundqvist may be longer lasting than the Berlin Wall, more rhythmic than Phil Spector’s wall of sound and more imposing than the Great Wall of China. He may have rejected more rubber than B.F. Goodrich and made more saves than..." May 16

Boston Herald "Tuukka Rask was frustrated but not deflated. He was eager, but calm, and in the end, he was just happy to get one more opportunity to make a save — unlike the last time he was in the postseason. When the Toronto Maple Leafs scored two third-period goals in 5:29, the air was briefly sucked..." May 14

Boston Herald "Tuukka Rask didn’t even want to talk about what happened to the Bruins in the playoffs three years ago. The reference of the postgame question at the Air Canada Centre last night was, of course, to the B’s blowing a 3-0 lead in the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinal series, as they dropped four..." May 13

CSN New England "In the battle of goaltenders in the Bruins/Leafs series, Tuukka Rask is pretty clearly getting the upper hand against young Toronto Maple Leafs puck-stopper James Reimer. Rask made 17 saves during a frantic third period as the desperate Toronto bunch threw everything at the Boston net, and the..." May 07

Boston Herald "Once again, it’s Tuukka time. It’s been three years since Tuukka Rask stood in the crease for an NHL playoff game as the Bruins goalie, so the time couldn’t come soon enough. After watching former teammate Tim Thomas during the last two postseasons, Rask is looking forward to the Eastern..." April 29

CSN New England "While some of his teammates might have had to manufacture some emotion facing the worst team in the NHL, Tuukka Rask had plenty of motivation headed into Sunday’s showdown against the Florida Panthers. Rask and head coach Claude Julien had both been on the same page when they identified..." April 22

CSN New England "There's been a lot of talk about the Bruins defense lately. Another night of allowing 40-plus shots on goal won't make that conversation go away. But what eases the pain of Boston's struggling defensive play is the performance of its goaltenders. And on Monday night at the TD Garden, the..." April 09

Boston Herald "It’s not every night that you’ll see an NHL game in which a team has a five-goal lead before the contest is half over, wins by four, but its goalie has to be its best player. So even when the Bruins showed some rare offensive flare, it was not the best indication as the playoffs approach that..." April 09

Boston Herald "It wouldn’t be Boston, and it wouldn’t be sports, if we didn’t have the occasional made-up-but-otherwise-nonexistent “controversy” to keep us up at night. And the rich keep getting richer, ’cause this week we have two — count ‘em, two! — made-up-but-otherwise-nonexistent sports..." April 05

NESN "There was much anticipation for Jaromir Jagr‘s debut in Bruins black and gold leading into Thursday’s game with the New Jersey Devils. Because of that, the Jagr circus may have overshadowed a fine performance from Tuukka Rask — just a little bit. However, in the moments after the final horn..." April 05

CSN New England "Shame on anyone around the Bruins that thought there might have been a brewing goalie controversy in Boston. As it turns out it was all part of the Boston master plan when Anton Khudobin started two straight games last week after B’s head coach Claude Julien said his team needed “those timely..." March 26

CSN New England "Things just got a little interesting in the Bruins goaltending rotation with the developments in each of the last two games. Tuukka Rask let up a rebound on a Grant Clitsome shot for an eventual Evander Kane game-winning goal in Winnipeg on Tuesday, and then Claude Julien called his starting..." March 22

Boston Herald "If there was a perfect time for Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask to preserve a three-goal lead with a shutout, yesterday was it. The last time Rask was in net, he gave up four goals in a row to the Washington Capitals as the Bruins blew a 3-0 lead on Tuesday. The last time he faced the Flyers, on May..." March 10

NESN "The offense has come and gone at times this season. The defense has its lapses here and there. On some nights, like Thursday night, you can search far and wide, with no success, for the skating game. The one constant through the first third of the Bruins’ season, however, has been the play of..." March 01

Boston Herald "Thirteen games does not a season make, and we won’t get a full appreciation of what kind of goalie Tuukka Rask really is until he gets another crack at the playoffs. But so far, it’s hard to complain about what he’s provided for the Bruins this season. At 10-1-2, Rask is tied for the NHL lead in..." February 28

Boston Herald "Happy as he was about his team’s latest victory, Tuukka Rask voiced a note of caution last night. “You know what? Don’t let it fool you,” said Rask, after stopping 36 shots in the streaking Bruins’ 4-1 victory over the New York Islanders. “You don’t want to be overly negative here. But even..." February 27

CSN New England "There was a fleeting thought that perhaps Anton Khudobin would get the starting nod against the New York Islanders on Tuesday night. After all, the Bruins are 16-3-1 in their last 20 games against a downtrodden Isles bunch and entered Nassau Coliseum feeling like they had a good shot at two..." February 27

CSN New England "You could make the argument that the Bruins owed Tuukka Rask a favor. So many times already this season, Rask has kept the Bruins in games, leading to wins. Had the Bruins lost in regulation on Tuesday night, it would have been on Rask. But some way, some how, the pesky Bruins scored a pair..." February 13

CSN New England "With Tim Thomas now officially out of the picture for the Bruins, they truly become Tuukka Rask’s hockey club. Rask has responded well to that challenge while off to a 6-1-1 record with a 1.96 goals against average and a .922 save percentage in the first three weeks of the 2013 NHL season while..." February 09

CSN New England "While the NHL Director of Officiating Terry Gregson contends there’s been no change to the way officials are enforcing goaltender interference infractions this season, the Bruins have noticed a high level of calls in their first two weeks worth of games. There were a pair of important and..." February 06

Boston Globe "Chris Bourque took a baby step out from behind his legendary father's long shadow at Air Canada Centre on Saturday night. He connected for his first goal as a Bruin and then watched it stand up as the lone goal in a thorough, 1-0 win over the Maple Leafs. A healthy scratch Thursday night,..." February 03

Boston Herald "The fact that the Rangers' last shot of the night wound up in the Bruins net did little to diminish the performance of goalie Tuukka Rask. The Bruins lost, 4-3, in overtime at Madison Square Garden last night, but the only reason they secured one point in the standings was Rask's clutch play..." January 24

CSN New England "During a normal season with a three-week training camp and an 82-game schedule, a Monday afternoon matinee against the Winnipeg Jets might have been the perfect time for backup goaltender Anton Khudobin to find his way into the Bruins lineup. But nothing about this shortened 48-game NHL season..." January 22

Boston Herald "You could not name a Bruin who didn't play pretty well in Saturday night's impressive season-opening win against the Rangers. That certainly included goalie Tuukka Rask. But truth to tell, Rask didn't have that much to do against the Rangers. As talented as that team is, the B's largely..." January 22

TSN.ca "According to a report, Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask was forced to leave a Czech League game with a groin injury. Roman Jedlick, reporter and play-by-play announcer in the Czech League, posted on his twitter account that Rask completed the first period of a game for Plzen but did not..." October 23

Boston Globe "Tim Thomas is gone, likely never to return to the Bruins, and that's the mind-set Tuukka Rask said he'll take into the 2012-13 season. He has to figure Thomas has moved on, and he's moving on up. "Well, of course, that's what everyone wants,'' said Rask, speaking Thursday afternoon in the lobby..." August 03

Boston Herald "Soon, it'll be the moment that Tuukka Rask has been waiting for his entire life. When the 25-year-old arrives at Bruins [team stats] training camp next month, there will no goalie controversy. For the first time in his NHL career, the space behind the crease will be nearly all his as the team's..." August 03

Boston Herald "There have been a lot of mammoth contracts thrown around the last few days in the NHL, but the one hatched between the Bruins and presumptive No.?1 goalie Tuukka Rask was relatively modest. Rask wants to be a top goalie. The Bruins want to see it first. So they're giving him a year and $3.5..." June 30

Boston Herald "The Bruins' goaltending was quite good this season. It was not, however, great, which was the standard Tim Thomas and Tuukka Rask had set in recent years. A year ago, Thomas delivered arguably the finest season in goal in hockey history. Of all the goaltending statistics, the most revealing is..." May 02

Boston Globe "Tuukka Rask still isn't sure when he suffered the injury that, in all likelihood, has ended his regular season. In the second period of the Bruins' 3-2 loss to the Islanders at TD Garden March 3, Rask dropped into his butterfly position to stop a Matt Martin shot. Then, when Martin's shot..." March 11

Boston Herald "Coming up on a stretch in their schedule where they'll play eight times during the next two weeks, the Bruins need as many healthy bodies as possible. With that being said, the injury to goaltender Tuukka Rask during yesterday's 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders couldn't have been more..." March 04

Boston Globe "When Tim Thomas leads his teammates onto the ice tonight at American Airlines Center, it will have been 12 days since he last stopped a puck in game action. Not a bad rest for the NHL's top goalie. The schedule - just four games since Dec. 19, with a three-day holiday break built in - has..." December 31

Boston Herald "Coming into this season, we all knew the plan with Tuukka Rask: He was going to get more playing time. Duh. What we didn't know, back when Bruins coach Claude Julien was rolling out the pucks on the first day of training camp, was what Rask would do with that time. Would he show some of..." December 14

Boston Globe "After 40 minutes of watching Tim Thomas last night, Tuukka Rask was informed that he would be on the ice for the final 20. "Yeah, a little,'' Rask said, when asked if he was surprised to get the call. "But you've just got to be ready. That proves it again. You never know what can happen. You've..." December 11

Boston Herald "With his starts coming about once a week, Tuukka Rask has had to deal with interminably long waits for redemption after suffering a loss. Those waits have been fewer and further between lately because Rask has played so much better this season, but heading into last night's showdown with..." December 04

Boston Globe "The Red Wings are tough enough to play five on five, so the last thing an opposing goaltender wants to deal with is a shootout. But that is what yesterday's game came down to at TD Garden, and the Bruins wound up on the short end of the 3-2 score. When asked about staring down a sniper as..." November 26