Tuukka Rask and his family received great applause from Boston Bruins fans.
Tuukka Rask’s NHL career is over. AOP
Tuukka Rask35, left a touching farewell for Boston Bruins fans in last night’s NHL round.
Rask announced in February that he would end his NHL career. The Finnish goalkeeper did not recover from last summer’s hip surgery.
– I couldn’t stand training and playing every day. I realized it pretty quickly, he said To the Boston Herald.
The Stanley Cup winner stepped on the ice with his wife and three daughters before the match between the Bruins and the New Jersey Devils.
The ceremony featured a video of the best moments of Rask’s career. The Finnish watchdog followed with a smile on his face and also advised the family to look at the media cube.
The home crowd applauded Rask from his stand. “Shouts!” Shouts echoed in the Bruins home arena.
Rask dropped the opening puck of the match with his youngest daughter.
Honest
Tuukka Rask thanked the home audience with his family. AOP
Rask tried to get back into play after his surgery.
I felt good during the rehabilitation. The exercises were successful up to four times a week. In his last match against Anaheim, however, the Finnish goalkeeper realized that not everything in his body was right.
– As I stretched, I stretched my groin and hip a little, it just got worse. Then it was time to be honest with yourself.
– I would have been able to fight, but what sense would it have been to play 60 percent of the games and then take a break from here for a week. I would have exported (goalkeeper) Jeremy Swaymanin place. It was best for everyone to quit. My career was great and I don’t regret anything.
The decision was not monitored at night.
– It’s easy. I have always been honest with myself. Why try if you can’t play at the level that teammates and the audience expect in addition to themselves?
Home father and mentor
The youngest daughter managed to drop the opening disc. AOP
The most serious hip injury occurred in a corona bubble in 2020. Its comic talk has even been about an artificial hip joint.
However, the Finnish guard, who has now finished his career, focuses on being a father. She takes her three daughters to school and dance classes. Everyday life also includes golf.
Rask continues in the Bruins as some sort of sponsor ambassador. The task will be specified later.
He also wants to be in support of goalkeeper Swayman.
– I was looking forward to being a mentor on the ice. That didn’t happen, but now that I’m not playing, we have a connection. We talk and try to help, how ever I can. I am going to help him in spiritual matters. The young goalkeeper is under a lot of pressure.
– Immediately after my decision to quit, I said he could call if he needed me.
The biggest achievement of his heaviest career was the Stanley Cup in the spring of 2011. He won the best goalkeeper Vezina Trophy in 2014.
Veskari rejected the Olympic bronze medal for Finland in Sochi in 2014.
– I was lucky to play my entire career in Boston. We had tough teams and made good friends. I’m thankful.
Rask played just four games in his final season.