""I should be fine for camp, the beginning of camp, for sure," he said. Perfect 2.0 (all due respect, Nicklas Lidstrom) assuming the C in Boston whenever Big Z retires.“He doesn’t change the way he plays, no matter what the situation, because he doesn’t need to,” says Recchi, now an assistant coach in Pittsburgh under Sullivan. When Bergeron initially arrived here, a second-round pick merely hoping to make a solid first impression, he knew almost nothing about the city and even less of its native language. Everybody knows each other.”“He said, ‘I know. "I'm feeling a lot better," Bergeron said Tuesday. He’s the all-time winningest goalie in Bruins history with 291 wins, and has the most games played (536), the most saves (13,711) and the best save percentage (.922) in the B’s nearly 100-year franchise history.The Bruins' core group isn’t getting any younger and neither is Rask as he enters the final year of his contract with Boston next season, so this may be the last, best chance for all of them to win one more before the championship window begins to close.“That’s something we need to try for and that’s our goal. We always try to learn from different people. Or how he always stuck around to pick up pucks after practice. The candlelit Italian trattoria that serves his favorite chicken parmesan. “That’s how guys are here,” he continues. Even strolling through the historic North End, his family’s home for a decade before migrating to the suburbs, continues to infuse Bruins center Patrice Bergeron with a sense of purpose and place. "It's not before the first period [of Game 6] for sure because we took some X-rays after the nerve block to make sure the lungs were fine. So Bergeron turned attention to how proud he was of everyone on the Boston roster.
However, on Friday, there was some good news about the injury. “And then as the years go by you kind of learn different things about your game and about yourself, and what you need to do and what not [to do].But all of it comes down to how things go for the goaltender and the B’s hockey club that takes many of its cues from exactly how he is playing between the pipes. He ranks third all-time in career save percentage behind Dominik Hasek and Johnny Bower, both Hall of Famers. Patrice Bergeron Named A Selke Finalist For Ninth Straight SeasonAnother year, ... Patrice Bergeron Played Through Groin Injury During Stanley Cup Final. It could mean entry to the Hockey Hall of Fame for Rask, and it certainly would clinch his status as the best goalie in the nearly 100-year history of the Bruins franchise.It’s no stretch to say that a great deal of Tuukka Rask’s ultimate legacy with the Bruins is tied up in the unprecedented 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs inside the bubble.Rask is even beginning to push his way into the Hockey Hall of Fame conversation as the career numbers pile up for him.Even his playoff stats are excellent as Rask ranks seventh all-time in NHL history with a .9268 save percentage in the postseason and is the active leader among all NHL goalies with a .9218 career save percentage in the regular season over his 13-year career.But there is an unfinished business element to his decade-long legacy with the Black and Gold after falling short in some extremely big moments for the Bruins during the postseason.Bjork played in 58 games during the regular season and tallied 19 points (nine goals, 10 assists). “If you want to try to make every dollar you can, unfortunately that’s not going to be with this group.”Here is another: In 2013, Bergeron and Hughes entered contract negotiations with the Bruins for what became an eight-year, max-term extension. If he's not ready to play after the long layoff and the Bruins exit the postseason quickly, it will be even worse for all parties involved.The Boston Bruins have reached an agreement with right winger Anders Bjork on a three-year contract extension through the 2022-23 season, the team announced Wednesday.Rask has won a Stanley Cup as a backup to Tim Thomas in 2011, but the Finnish netminder has not been able to carry the Bruins to hockey immortality as the franchise guy.