Player Discussion Tuukka Rask VI

[Lafleurs Guy]

Imagine ****ting on a 0.930% goalie.

Haters everywhere. Happens with Carey Price all the time.

Rask was amazing in the postseason. Good enough that he would've been a good choice for the Smythe despite not having won the cup. Nobody should be crapping on this guy tonight.

The first goal is a tough deflection, absolutely nothing you can do on that. And then Marchand made a mistake that led to another one. I just don't see how you can blame Rask, esp given how good he's been since day one of the playoffs. Goalies always take way too much of the blame.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Imagine ****ting on a 0.930% goalie.

Nobody is going to argue what Rask did to get the Bruins here, but it's literally a copy and paste of 2013. Lights out the first 3 rounds, good enough for most of the final, then a horrific collapse at the end, except this time it was much worse for the collapse.

You can throw out all the .980 save percentage stats or whatever it was in elimination games, at then end of the day he always ends up blowing it.

 

[UncleRico]

Nobody is going to argue what Rask did to get the Bruins here, but it's literally a copy and paste of 2013. Lights out the first 3 rounds, good enough for most of the final, then a horrific collapse at the end, except this time it was much worse for the collapse.

You can throw out all the .980 save percentage stats or whatever it was in elimination games, at then end of the day he always ends up blowing it.

Tonight was way more on the defense than rask.

 

[roflstomper]

People who support Rask can do it with their feelings. I'll show you over a decade plus of data showing him shitting the bed in crunch time. I'm tired of it.

 

[Pia8988]

Haters everywhere. Happens with Carey Price all the time.

Rask was amazing in the postseason. Good enough that he would've been a good choice for the Smythe despite not having won the cup. Nobody should be crapping on this guy tonight.

The first goal is a tough deflection, absolutely nothing you can do on that. And then Marchand made a mistake that led to another one. I just don't see how you can blame Rask, esp given how good he's been since day one of the playoffs. Goalies always take way too much of the blame.

They waited all playoffs for it. They get their moment in their eyes.

 

[finchster]

Nobody is going to argue what Rask did to get the Bruins here, but it's literally a copy and paste of 2013. Lights out the first 3 rounds, good enough for most of the final, then a horrific collapse at the end, except this time it was much worse for the collapse.

You can throw out all the .980 save percentage stats or whatever it was in elimination games, at then end of the day he always ends up blowing it.

I felt the team owed it to Rask to have a great game, and they ended up having one of the worst games of the year.
Tip shot was saveable, not easy but certainly not impossible.
Petro goal was bad defence.
The others feel like a blur right now.

Rask should've been able to have a game where he wasn't lights out, good enough to get the win, and his team won it. That didn't happen. He was the best player all playoffs.

 

[Seidenbergy]

Nobody is going to argue what Rask did to get the Bruins here, but it's literally a copy and paste of 2013. Lights out the first 3 rounds, good enough for most of the final, then a horrific collapse at the end, except this time it was much worse for the collapse.

You can throw out all the .980 save percentage stats or whatever it was in elimination games, at then end of the day he always ends up blowing it.

Game 6 was crunch time.

 

[Lepardi]

A deflection from that range makes any save a matter of puck luck as there's no time to react.

Frank Brimsek would have reacted to that deflection because he was an all-time great.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

Haters everywhere. Happens with Carey Price all the time.

Rask was amazing in the postseason. Good enough that he would've been a good choice for the Smythe despite not having won the cup. Nobody should be crapping on this guy tonight.

The first goal is a tough deflection, absolutely nothing you can do on that. And then Marchand made a mistake that led to another one. I just don't see how you can blame Rask, esp given how good he's been since day one of the playoffs. Goalies always take way too much of the blame.

I think you can blame him for a game.

Won't ever suggest he sucks and won't stop loving the guy. But he let that first shot by him and it never should have gotten through. And the Blues are a tough team to beat when they get ahead.

The game isn't on him alone, but he certainly shoulders a heavy weight for the loss. I don't believe that's unfair.

 

[smithformeragent]

Haters everywhere. Happens with Carey Price all the time.

Rask was amazing in the postseason. Good enough that he would've been a good choice for the Smythe despite not having won the cup. Nobody should be crapping on this guy tonight.

The first goal is a tough deflection, absolutely nothing you can do on that. And then Marchand made a mistake that led to another one. I just don't see how you can blame Rask, esp given how good he's been since day one of the playoffs. Goalies always take way too much of the blame.

Easier to assign all of the blame/credit to one guy than to analyze the bigger picture.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

You don't cover the five hole if the shot is not heading there. A deflection from that range makes any save a matter of puck luck as there's no time to react.

The puck went through him. That can't happen. Not when it did.

 

[Marchy63]

With the way the Bruins played tonight, Rask could have had a shutout and they still would have found a way to lose. They didn't deserve to win that game and no matter what goalie they had in net they would have lost.

And remember, stats saying he sucks also point to bad games by the rest of the team too.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Game 6 was crunch time.

And he had a great game. It's not like he's never had big games in crunch time. It's just that he still has never proven he can finish the job.

 

[McGarnagle]

It's pretty unfair that he carries us for 23 games and has one questionable goal in game 24 and he gets shit on by everyone. If the top six did anything this series, he's easily the conn smythe.

 

[jonu]

People who support Rask can do it with their feelings. I'll show you over a decade plus of data showing him ****ting the bed in crunch time. I'm tired of it.

Show me. All the data on every elimination game. Waiting.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

I think you can blame him for a game.

Won't ever suggest he sucks and won't stop loving the guy. But he let that first shot by him and it never should have gotten through. And the Blues are a tough team to beat when they get ahead.

The game isn't on him alone, but he certainly shoulders a heavy weight for the loss. I don't believe that's unfair.

I don't know how you blame him for that shot. He's all set to save it and is positioned properly to deflect it into the corner exactly as he's supposed to and then there's a tip. He had no chance on that one...

 

[smithformeragent]

It's pretty unfair that he carries us for 23 games and has one questionable goal in game 24 and he gets **** on by everyone. If the top six did anything this series, he's easily the conn smythe.

It is unfair, but the timing matters.

One can argue that he outplayed Binnington this series and/or this playoffs, but when the chips were down Binnington saved his team’s ass tonight and Rask was ordinary.

Rask may have a hall of fame career when it’s all said and done, but if he doesn’t win a Cup as a starter, that’s a huge part of his legacy.

 

[UncleRico]

People who support Rask can do it with their feelings. I'll show you over a decade plus of data showing him ****ting the bed in crunch time. I'm tired of it.

Really cause he was 5-1 in elimination games this year

 

[bruinsfan1970]

Tuukka Rask VII

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

It's pretty unfair that he carries us for 23 games and has one questionable goal in game 24 and he gets **** on by everyone. If the top six did anything this series, he's easily the conn smythe.

Do you think Tuukka would claim that he had a good game?

It's obviously not all on him and he's obviously worthy of praise for all he did to get the team there. You think I'd trade him for Jordan f***ing Binnington? Not a god damn chance.

But call a spade a spade... He wasn't good tonight. He needed to be.