Tuukka Rask

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FinlandFinland  Tuukka Rask Ice hockey player
Tuukka Rask
Date of birth March 10, 1987
place of birth Savonlinna , Finland
size 191 cm
Weight 77 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 40
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2005 , 1st round, 21st position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
until 2003 Savonlinnan Pallokerho
2003-2007 Tampereen Ilves
2007-2009 Providence Bruins
since 2009 Boston Bruins

Tuukka Mikael Rask (born March 10, 1987 in Savonlinna ) is a Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper who has played for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL) since 2009 and in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round on 21. Position was selected. In the 2011 playoffs , he won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins . Rask is considered one of the best goalkeepers in the league, with the Vezina Trophy (2014) and the William M. Jennings Trophy (2020) already receiving the two major awards for this position.

Career

Tuuka Rask began his career with Savonlinnan Pallokerho , for whom he made his debut in Suomi-sarja during the 2002/03 season . At the same time he ran for the juniors of the club in the A-Junior-SM-sarja. At the age of 16 he moved to the junior division of Tampereen Ilves , where he was able to show impressive catch rates of 93% as well as low goalscoring in the Finnish junior SM league . As a result, he received individual missions in the professional team of Ilves in the SM-liiga , where he was continuously built from third to second goalkeeper. In the 2005/06 season in particular, he received a lot of Ice Age.

During the NHL Entry Draft 2005 , the Toronto Maple Leafs selected him in the first round in 21st place, but Rask initially stayed in Finland. In June 2006, the Toronto Maple Leafs, who owned the NHL rights to Rask after the 2005 draft, gave their claims to him as part of a swap deal to the Boston Bruins , who sent goalkeeper Andrew Raycroft to Toronto for it. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season , Rask competed with the almost equally old Riku Helenius for the position of first goalkeeper at Ilves and prevailed. He completed 56 appearances in the main round and playoffs and achieved catch rates of over 92%.

Boston Bruins

Tuukka Rask in the Boston Bruins jersey

On May 5, 2007 Rask signed a three-year contract with the Boston Bruins and then began training with the Bruins farm team, the Providence Bruins from the American Hockey League . With the Providence Bruins Rask acted in the following season as a regular goalkeeper and received on November 5, 2007 his first appointment to the NHL roster of the franchise. Two weeks later he had his first victory in the National Hockey League when the Bruins defeated his draft team, the Maple Leafs, 4-2.

During the preparatory games for the 2008/09 NHL season , Rask was statistically one of the best goalkeepers of the Bruins (next to Manny Fernandez , Tim Thomas and Kevin Regan ), but was still sent back to the farm team because the Bruins bet on the duo Thomas and Fernandez wanted to. Due to an injury to Fernandez shortly after the 2009 All-Star Game , Rask received his only use during the season on January 31, 2009, where he achieved his first NHL shutout .

During the following season , Rask was a permanent part of the NHL roster and back-up from Thomas. In November 2009, he then signed a contract extension over two years to about 1.5 million its income the US dollar pushed up. Rask then completed 45 missions in which he was statistically the best goalkeeper in the NHL with an average goal against goals of 1.97 and a catch rate of 93.1%. In addition, he gradually replaced Tim Thomas as a regular goalkeeper and was used in 13 playoff games, while Thomas did not complete any. In the 2010/11 season Thomas reversed this trend and found his old strength back, so that Rask only completed 29 games, but at the end of the season won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins . This made him the second Finnish goalkeeper to win this trophy after Antti Niemi .

In February 2019, Rask recorded his 253rd win wearing the Bruins jersey, surpassing the franchise record of 252 games won since the 1930s by later Hall of Fame member Tiny Thompson . At the end of the shortened 2019/20 season , he and his team-mate Jaroslav Halák conceded the fewest goals, so both of them received the William M. Jennings Trophy .

International

Rask represented Finland at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2004 and 2005 and at the U20 World Junior Championships in 2005 , 2006 and 2007 .

In the 2004 U18 junior world championships, Rask played five games in which he conceded 1.61 and a catch rate of 92.7%. Statistically, he was one of the best goalkeepers in the tournament. A year later, he could not confirm these achievements, especially since he was used in both the U18 and U20 World Championships. In contrast, he knew how to convince at the U20 World Cup in 2006, won the bronze medal with the Finnish U20 selection, was named the best goalkeeper and was elected to the all-star team of the tournament.

At the 2014 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Sochi, he won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team and remained in the game for third place without conceding a goal. He also represented his home country at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U OTN Min GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2003/04 Tampereen Ilves U18 B-Jun.-SM-sarja 9 2.81 92.1 - - - - - - - -
2003/04 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun.-SM-liiga 26th 2.24 93.6 4 1 1.98 92.8
2004/05 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun.-SM-liiga 26th 1.86 93.5 10 0.87 97.3
2004/05 Tampereen Ilves SM-liiga 4th 0 1 1 - 202 15th 0 4.46 87.5 - - - - - - - -
2005/06 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun.-SM-liiga 1 2.00 90.9 - - - - - - - -
2005/06 Tampereen Ilves SM-liiga 30th 12 7th 8th - 1724 60 2 2.09 92.6 3 0 3 180 7th 0 2.33 92.4
2005/06 Finland U20 Mestis 3 2.01 94.1 - - - - - - - -
2006/07 Tampereen Ilves SM-liiga 49 18th 18th 10 - 2872 114 3 2.38 92.8 7th 2 5 397 20th 0 3.02 92.4
2006/07 Finland U20 Mestis 1 4.11 85.7 - - - - - - - -
2007/08 Providence Bruins AHL 45 27 13 - 2 2570 100 1 2.33 90.5 10 6th 4th 605 22nd 2 2.18 90.8
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 4th 2 1 - 1 184 10 0 3.25 88.6 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 Providence Bruins AHL 57 33 20th - 4th 3340 139 4th 2.50 91.5 16 9 7th 977 36 0 2.21 93.0
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 1 1 0 - 0 60 0 1 0.00 100.0 - - - - - - - -
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 45 22nd 12 - 5 2562 84 5 1.97 93.1 13 7th 6th 829 36 0 2.61 91.0
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 29 11 14th - 2 1594 71 2 2.67 91.8 - - - - - - - -
2011/12 Boston Bruins NHL 23 11 8th - 3 1289 44 3 2.05 92.9 - - - - - - - -
2012/13 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 17th 12 5 - 3 993 35 1 2.11 92.4 - - - - - - - -
2012/13 Boston Bruins NHL 36 19th 10 - 5 2104 70 5 2.00 92.9 22nd 14th 8th 1466 46 3 1.88 94.0
2013/14 Boston Bruins NHL 58 36 15th - 6th 3386 115 7th 2.04 93.0 12 7th 5 753 25th 2 1.99 92.8
2014/15 Boston Bruins NHL 70 34 32 - 13 4063 156 3 2.30 92.2 - - - - - - - -
2015/16 Boston Bruins NHL 64 31 22nd - 8th 3678 157 4th 2.56 91.5 - - - - - - - -
2016/17 Boston Bruins NHL 65 37 20th - 5 3680 137 8th 2.23 91.5 6th 2 4th 403 15th 0 2.24 92.0
2017/18 Boston Bruins NHL 54 34 14th - 5 3174 125 3 2.36 91.7 12 5 7th 687 33 0 2.88 90.3
2018/19 Boston Bruins NHL 46 27 13 - 5 2636 109 4th 2.48 91.2 24 15th 9 1459 49 2 2.02 93.4
2019/20 Boston Bruins NHL 41 26th 8th - 6th 2402 85 5 2.12 92.9 4th 1 3 257 11 0 2.57 90.4
A-Juniors-SM-liiga total 53 - 2.05 93.5 14th 1.19 96.0
Mestis total 4th - 2.54 92.0 - - - - - - - -
SM-liiga total 83 30th 26th 19th - 4798 189 5 2.36 92.5 10 2 8th 577 27 0 2.16 92.4
AHL total 102 60 33 - 6th 5910 239 5 2.43 91.1 26th 15th 11 1582 58 2 2.20 92.3
NHL overall 536 291 158 - 64 30812 1163 50 2.26 92.2 93 51 42 5853 215 7th 2.20 92.6

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp S. N OTN Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2004 Finland U18 World Cup 7th place 5 2 1 2 299 8th 1 1.61 92.7
2005 Finland U20 World Cup 5th place 5 2 3 0 243 12 0 2.96 90.2
2005 Finland U18 World Cup 7th place 5 2 3 0 278 14th 0 3.02 91.0
2006 Finland U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 4th 2 0 369 13 1 2.11 94.0
2007 Finland U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 4th 2 0 332 17th 0 3.07 89.9
2014 Finland Olympia 3rd place, bronze 4th 3 0 1 242 7th 1 1.75 93.8
2016 Finland World cup 8th place 2 0 2 0 119 4th 0 2.02 92.0
Juniors overall 27 14th 11 2 1521 64 2 2.52 91.7
Men overall 6th 3 2 1 361 11 1 1.84 93.2

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Others

Rask is the namesake of Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski , a species of cicada wasp that was discovered in Kenya in 2015 . One of the participating entomologist was a fan of the Boston Bruins.

Web links

Commons : Tuukka Rask  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bruins.nhl.com, Rask Signed to Contract Extension , November 5, 2009, accessed May 15, 2012
  2. ↑ a b hockeysfuture.com, profile of Tuuka Rask , accessed on May 15, 2012
  3. ^ Carolyn Y. Johnson: Wasp species named in honor of Bruins' Tuukka Rask. The Boston Globe , February 24, 2015, accessed March 23, 2015 .
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personal data
SURNAME Rask, Tuukka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rask, Tuukka Mikael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Savonlinna , Finland