When Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy took to his pregame press conference and announced that Tuukka
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To his credit, Cassidy did his best to clarify that Rask’s absence from the game (a 2-1 overtime win for the Bruins) was not due to anything particularly damning, but that the 30-year-old Rask was dealing with a ‘very, very minor injury’ and that they were being cautious.
Still, I knew the annual Tuukka Rask Trashstorm was about to make its way to Twitter. And if we know this story tends to go, it was about to come crashing into Twitter user
_TyAnderson (hey, that’s me!) and his previously unsuspecting mentions.
“Tuukka’s soft. He’s still mentally weak. This is the kind of fragile stuff that the Bruins cannot afford for $7 million per season! They shoulda kept Martin Jones because 2016!”
It was as predictable as Claude Julien complaining about the officials after a Bruins-Canadiens game.
But not even for
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By now, the reality of the situation is clear: Rask, barring a matching of Tim Thomas’ 2011 run (seems reasonable), is never quite going to get a fair shake in this town.
In the (relatively short) time that I’ve been with EEI, I believe that I’ve
Authentic Henri Jokiharju Jersey written an ‘In Defense of Tuukka’ column about five times. I’ve even written plenty of ‘Tuukka Rask is not good and that’s concerning!’ blogs and columns. While the varying tones of those stories can be misconstrued as inconsistent, it’s important to note that I’ve dealt in facts throughout every one of those stories. I find your emotional hang-ups regarding a person’s ability to play professional hockey while suffering from food poisoning (have you ever had food poisoning? It’s a nightmare that leaves you wishing for death) and the fate of the 2014
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But can we for just one moment, jump into my world and deal in some facts?
Let’s start with the obvious one: Rask allegedly ‘bailing’ on a 5 p.m. Saturday night game against the Canadiens would not show
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http://www.aescranna.com/mark-glowinski-jersey-c-1_18.html and the name of the team on the other bench and this game is as meaningful as a holiday matinee against the Coyotes.
If that game against the Canadiens was still an ‘important’
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