Gustavsson Outduels Rask

by Chemmy on Dec 19, 2009 11:23 PM EST

Here's a link to the game in six so you can watch it again and again and again and...

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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 19, 2009 11:39 PM EST reply actions

Whokka? :)

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by 1967ers on Dec 19, 2009 11:44 PM EST reply actions

Gustavsson could have my babies

You know.. if he wanted to..

by SPENCEMAN on Dec 20, 2009 12:13 AM EST reply actions

Is this what NHL-quality goaltending looks like? I can’t remember if I’ve seen it before.

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by article1 on Dec 20, 2009 12:26 AM EST reply actions

I have vague memories of guys named Joseph, Belfour, and Potvin… I think that may be on the right track… but my memory definitely needs a refreshing… which is what that performance by the Monster was.

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by CanadianMaple09 on Dec 20, 2009 9:53 AM EST up reply actions

4-2-1

With a .918 save percentage in his last 7 starts.

Tuuka Rask is 5-1-1 with a .950 save percentage in his last 7 starts.

Rask has had 2 games ALL YEAR where his save percentage has been below .900.

Can anyone console me on the fact that the Leafs COULD have had Rask if we hadn’t traded for Raycroft? We also never would have had to trade for Toskala… etc.

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I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Dec 20, 2009 1:09 AM EST reply actions

You could try calling the Samaritans.

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by article1 on Dec 20, 2009 1:16 AM EST up reply actions

well yeah, but who would have played goal before this year?

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by Karina on Dec 20, 2009 2:11 AM EST up reply actions

rask and pogge probably would have platooned

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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 20, 2009 10:34 AM EST up reply actions

Any free agent. It’s not like we made the playoffs – we might have had a better draft pick.

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by Chemmy on Dec 20, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions

yeah

just wonder what names Steve would throw out there.

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by Karina on Dec 20, 2009 3:03 PM EST up reply actions

i figure .950 in front of the stingy bruins is about the same as .918 in front of the free-wheeling leafs.

and more importantly – no use crying over spilt milk.

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by daoust on Dec 20, 2009 2:50 AM EST up reply actions

I’m kind of tired of hearing this. Let’s just get over it. We don’t have who we don’t have. We have a new GM who is rebuilding the system. One of the first things he did was get a good young goalie. We’re ok. Apparently we could have had Gretzky at one point, too, but Stavro didn’t want to pay a measly $3M for him. Coulda woulda shoulda. Let’s focus on what we’ve got.

by Leaf in Habland on Dec 20, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions

Just bothers me

to think that any idiot would come to the conclusion that Rask was inferior to Pogge.

If you had watched their games prior to the trade there was zero doubt that Rask was a superior goalie. It made no sense.

Anyway… spilt milk is all cried over … I’ll get past it.

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I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Dec 20, 2009 12:43 PM EST up reply actions

No, hold on to this one for a while.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 20, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions

Not that JFJ wasn’t a dope but perhaps the Bruins asked for Rask over Pogge.

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by Chemmy on Dec 20, 2009 2:35 PM EST up reply actions

I heard somewhere

though I have no idea if this is true, that Rask had decided he wouldn’t sign with Toronto, so that’s why they had to trade him.

Sorry, no sources at all to back this up, just something I read on a message board once (which means it must be true). Wondering if anyone else had heard anything along these lines.

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by Wan Ihite on Dec 20, 2009 6:19 PM EST up reply actions

MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILK! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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by clrkaitken on Dec 20, 2009 3:00 PM EST up reply actions

I watched the gold medal WJ game

I knew Rask was better then Pogge….

I was immediately upset when we traded him for ‘Glove side’ Raycroft (although had I known just how good Rask could be and how baaaaaaaaaad Raycroft was, I would have been even more upset.)

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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Dec 20, 2009 6:56 PM EST up reply actions

what a thing of beauty. It soothes my soul. Thank you, Jonas Gustavsson.

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by Karina on Dec 20, 2009 2:11 AM EST reply actions

Also

this was CH’s first Leafs game, was it not? So….. let’s make him move to TO and trade in his bruins’ season tickets for leafs ones…

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by Karina on Dec 20, 2009 2:20 AM EST reply actions

I knew it. I didn’t want to jinx it, but I friggin knew it.

The universe would not be cruel enough, after what they did to us Friday night, to let CH walk into our barn, watch the Bruins kick us around again, and give him bragging rights until next March when we play them next.

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by clrkaitken on Dec 20, 2009 9:40 AM EST up reply actions