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Bruins general manager don sweeney.
Tuukka rask young. The vezina trophy finalist and winner of the top goaltender award in 2014 said in a statement saturday morning before game 3 of boston s playoff series against carolina that at this moment there are things more important than hockey in my life and that is being with my family. The 33 year old rask and his wife jasmiina nikkila recently had a baby daughter and they have two other young girls. Boston ap boston bruins goalie tuukka rask has opted out of the team s playoff run. Chris young the canadian press via ap the associated press boston boston bruins goalie tuukka rask has opted out of the team s playoff run to be with his family.
In an unexpected twist rask a couple of days removed from his comments surrounding the playoff atmosphere inside the toronto bubble announced his departure from the postseason to return home to his family. You can t control the timeline of when the. The news broke a short while before puck drop for game 3 of boston s first round stanley cup playoff series versus the carolina hurricanes on saturday afternoon. The tuukka rask news cycle extended into the 48 hour mark on saturday.
Tuukka rask 40 of the boston bruins walks through the hallways during media day ahead of the 2019 nhl stanley cup final at td garden on may 26 2019 in boston. You couldn t control the timeline of. Tuukka rask opts out of stanley cup playoffs 1 34 emily kaplan breaks down tuukka rask s decision to opt out of the remainder of the stanley cup playoffs adding that it didn t feel like playoff. It was no big.
In tuukka s case he has a newborn at home with two other young girls and he just felt that he needs to be home with them at this particular time. Boston bruins goaltender tuukka rask announced saturday he is opting out of the nhl s return to play. General manager don sweeney said during a conference call 80 minutes before the game that rask left the nhl s bubble in toronto to be with his wife and three young children including a newborn.