Henrik Lundqvist has backstopped the New York Rangers to victory in each of their last four visits to Boston’s TD Garden. Tuukka Rask has been in net to collect each of the Bruins’ last three points earned on home ice against the Blueshirts, although he is winless in his last three bouts with Lundqvist.
The two Scandinavian stoppers figure to constitute the goaltending card in Saturday night’s NHL season opener. It will fall exactly 52 weeks to the date of their previous confrontation on the same TD Garden ice, where Lundqvist never trailed and ultimately prevailed in overtime, 3-2.
That shortcoming altered Rask’s lifetime record against the Rangers to 2-3-1, including a 2-2-1 run at home. Predecessor Tim Thomas was 5-9-3 in seven seasons of countering Lundqvist, including a 3-4-0 run over his three years of splitting the crease with Rask.
The tireless Blueshirts backstop is 19-6-2 all time in his seven-year career against Boston and has not missed a bout with the Bruins since the start of his sophomore campaign, in 2006.
In turn, Lundqvist has consistently scraped the blue paint in his cage every time Rask has ...
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