Despite finishing the regular season as the league’s statistically best goaltender, is Linus Ullmark no given goaltending choice when the Boston Bruins on Monday night play the seventh and decisive game of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs against the Florida Panthers.
If coach Jim Montgomery chooses to field Jeremy Swayman in that case, it will be the first playoff game for the Bruins this season without Ullmark as the last outpost.
– I do not know. “I’m not sure how I’m going to do it,” Montgomery said Saturday. If I make a goalie change, it’s because Linus didn’t stop enough pucks last time, it’s that simple.
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Linus Ullmark allowed six goals on 32 shots as the Bruins lost Game 6 5-7 on Saturday night. But Montgomery doesn’t just look after that.
– When I choose who will play, I don’t look at what has happened, but at what I think will happen, said Jim Montgomery. We will meet tomorrow (Sunday) and decide.
The Boston Bruins play Game 7 at home at TD Garden. The team has the league’s best goalkeeper pair in Linus Ullmark, the 29-year-old from Lugnvik outside Kramfors, who in the regular season was registered for a GAA of 1.89 and a save percentage of a superb 93.8 over 48 games. Corresponding numbers for 24-year-old Swayman from Anchorage, Alaska: 2.27 and 92.0 after 33 games.
In the playoffs, Ullmark has had a tougher time: 3.33 GAA and 89.6%.
2023-04-29 21:41:13
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