It is a safe bet that Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask will counter Semyon Varlamov when his team visits the Colorado Avalanche this Friday. If that happens, it will be one of the 2013-14 NHL season’s last head-to-head matchups between worthy Vezina Trophy contenders.
Ditto a week from Monday, when TD Garden goers will likely see Rask working to outduel Montreal’s Carey Price.
Those upcoming adversaries, plus the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Ben Bishop, constitute Rask’s most reckonable company in the Vezina derby as the regular season enters its final month. Ryan Miller could be a last-minute entrant as well, given his 6-0-1 start to his St. Louis career and the way his save percentage held up while backstopping a wretched Buffalo Sabres team.
With the way Boston’s netminder has performed lately, he is peaking at the right time and should have reasonable facility sealing one of the three finalist slots.
If one goes by the surface of the stat sheet, Rask and Bishop are the front-runners. They are deadlocked under the goals-against average heading at 2.10 apiece, while B ...
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Breaking Down Tuukka Rask’s Vezina Chances with 1 Month Left in the Season
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