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Tuukka Rask

#40 · Goalie · Boston Bruins

Born Mar 10, 1987 in Savonlinna, FIN · 6'3", 176 lb · Catches left · Drafted 21st overall in 2005 by TOR (round 1)

Trophy case

Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2010-11
William M. Jennings Trophy Goaltender(s) on Team with Fewest Goals Against 2019-20
Vezina Trophy Top Goaltender 2013-14

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2014-15. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Cory Schneider NJD · 69 GP, 0.925 Jonathan Quick LAK · 72 GP, 0.918 Braden Holtby WSH · 73 GP, 0.923 Carey Price MTL · 66 GP, 0.933 Kari Lehtonen DAL · 65 GP, 0.903

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

02040602007-08: 4 games407-082008-09: 1 games12009-10: 45 games4509-102010-11: 29 games292011-12: 23 games2311-122012-13: 36 games362013-14: 58 games5813-142014-15: 70 games702015-16: 64 games6415-162016-17: 65 games652017-18: 54 games5417-182018-19: 46 games462019-20: 41 games4119-202020-21: 24 games242021-22: 4 games421-22

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save % Cap hit
2007-08 BOS 4 2110 88 78 10 3.25 0.886
2008-09 BOS 1 1001 35 35 0 0.00 1.000
2009-10 BOS 45 221255 1221 1137 84 1.97 0.931
2010-11 BOS 29 111422 866 795 71 2.67 0.918
2011-12 BOS 23 11833 621 577 44 2.05 0.929
2012-13 BOS 36 191055 980 910 70 2.00 0.929
2013-14 BOS 58 361567 1641 1526 115 2.04 0.930 $7M
2014-15 BOS 70 3421133 2011 1855 156 2.30 0.922 $7M
2015-16 BOS 64 312284 1854 1697 157 2.56 0.915 $7M
2016-17 BOS 65 372058 1610 1473 137 2.23 0.915 $7M
2017-18 BOS 54 341453 1513 1388 125 2.36 0.917 $7M
2018-19 BOS 46 271354 1245 1136 109 2.48 0.912 $7M
2019-20 BOS 41 26865 1189 1104 85 2.12 0.929 $7M
2020-21 BOS 24 15522 611 558 53 2.28 0.913 $7M
2021-22 BOS 4 2200 90 76 14 4.28 0.844
15 seasons Career 564 3081656652 15575 14345 1230 2.28 0.921

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
2009-10 BOS 13 7600 409 373 36 2.61 0.912
2012-13 BOS 22 14803 761 715 46 1.88 0.940
2013-14 BOS 12 7502 348 323 25 1.99 0.928
2016-17 BOS 6 2400 187 172 15 2.24 0.920
2017-18 BOS 12 5700 339 306 33 2.88 0.903
2018-19 BOS 24 15902 742 693 49 2.02 0.934
2019-20 BOS 2 1100 54 48 6 2.58 0.889
2020-21 BOS 11 6400 334 307 27 2.36 0.919
8 seasons Playoffs 102 574407 3174 2937 237 2.21 0.925

2014-15 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
70 67 3421133 2011 1855 156 2.30 0.922

Contract

$7MCap hitends in 2021, then UFA
$583KCap dollars per goal above replacement12.0 goals above replacement
$3.2MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$3.8MValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 48 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2020-21, with 6 seasons left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2014-15 $7M
2015-16 $7M
2016-17 $7M
2017-18 $7M
2018-19 $7M
2019-20 $7M
2020-21 $7M

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2013-14 to 2020-21 $7M

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2014-15 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2014-15 analytics

Rating

+12.0Goals above replacement21st of 50 goalies
+2.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-3.5Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 50 ranked goalies: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. Goals above average is coloured as it is under Shots faced below, where it is taken per 60 minutes.

The goals he saved for his team, compared with a spare-part goalie facing the same shots. A goalie's season is about one-third the goalie and two-thirds chance, so read one year lightly. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-1001020302010-112012-132014-152016-172018-192020-21Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

Shots faced

Expected goals adds up how likely each shot he faced was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. A goalie who lets in fewer than that has saved goals above expected. Only shots taken while he was in net count, and the league's goalies as a whole come out at zero. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones. What these numbers mean

-3.5Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
152.5Expected goals againstfrom 2,754 unblocked attempts
156Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.922Save %0.924 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 49 goalies who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. The two goals against tiles are left plain, since they follow how much he played.

Goals saved -0.05 above expected per 60 minutes37th
Shot difficulty 5.5% chance per attempt faced1stA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 49 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

050100150Game 10Game 20Game 30Game 40Game 50Game 60Allowed 156Expected 152.5

The goals he was expected to let in and the goals he did, as the season went on. When the allowed line runs below the expected line, he is saving more than his shots were worth.

Where he was shot at

Every unblocked attempt he faced this season, with his net on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result Decision Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 11, 2015 @ TBL L 2-3 (SO) OTL 25 23 2 0.920 64:23
Apr 9, 2015 @ FLA L 2-4 L 30 26 4 0.867 57:02
Apr 8, 2015 @ WSH L 0-3 L 33 30 3 0.909 60:00
Apr 4, 2015 vs TOR W 2-1 (SO) W 28 27 1 0.964 65:00
Apr 2, 2015 @ DET W 3-2 W 37 35 2 0.946 60:00
Mar 31, 2015 vs FLA W 3-2 W 24 22 2 0.917 60:00
Mar 29, 2015 @ CAR W 2-1 (OT) W 31 30 1 0.968 64:23
Mar 28, 2015 vs NYR W 4-2 W 14 14 0 1.000 20:10
Mar 26, 2015 vs ANA L 2-3 (OT) OTL 32 29 3 0.906 63:05
Mar 22, 2015 @ TBL L 3-5 L 12 8 4 0.667 27:50
Mar 21, 2015 @ FLA L 1-2 (SO) OTL 25 24 1 0.960 65:00
Mar 19, 2015 @ OTT L 4-6 L 31 26 5 0.839 58:33
Mar 15, 2015 @ WSH L 0-2 L 38 36 2 0.947 57:56
Mar 14, 2015 @ PIT W 2-0 W, SO 30 30 0 1.000 60:00
Mar 12, 2015 vs TBL W 3-2 (SO) W 37 35 2 0.946 64:58
Mar 10, 2015 @ OTT W 3-1 W 40 39 1 0.975 60:00
Mar 7, 2015 vs PHI W 3-2 (OT) W 31 29 2 0.935 61:55
Mar 5, 2015 vs CGY L 3-4 (SO) OTL 32 29 3 0.906 64:50
Feb 28, 2015 vs ARI W 4-1 W 32 31 1 0.969 60:00
Feb 24, 2015 vs VAN L 1-2 L 28 26 2 0.929 57:54
Feb 22, 2015 @ CHI W 6-2 W 28 26 2 0.929 60:00
Feb 20, 2015 @ STL L 1-5 9 7 2 0.778 28:45
Feb 18, 2015 @ EDM L 3-4 (SO) OTL 30 27 3 0.900 65:00
Feb 16, 2015 @ CGY L 3-4 (OT) OTL 27 23 4 0.852 64:58
Feb 13, 2015 @ VAN L 2-5 L 24 20 4 0.833 59:44
Feb 10, 2015 vs DAL L 3-5 L 21 20 1 0.952 38:26
Feb 8, 2015 vs MTL L 1-3 L 33 31 2 0.939 58:59
Feb 7, 2015 vs NYI W 2-1 W 40 39 1 0.975 60:00
Feb 4, 2015 @ NYR L 2-3 L 25 22 3 0.880 58:33
Jan 31, 2015 vs LAK W 3-1 W 31 30 1 0.968 60:00
Jan 29, 2015 @ NYI W 5-2 W 45 43 2 0.956 59:53
Jan 21, 2015 @ COL L 2-3 (SO) OTL 36 34 2 0.944 65:00
Jan 20, 2015 @ DAL W 3-1 W 37 36 1 0.973 60:00
Jan 17, 2015 vs CBJ L 1-3 L 30 28 2 0.933 59:26
Jan 15, 2015 vs NYR W 3-0 W, SO 30 30 0 1.000 60:00
Jan 13, 2015 vs TBL W 4-3 W 19 16 3 0.842 59:52
Jan 10, 2015 @ PHI W 3-1 W 25 24 1 0.960 59:58
Jan 7, 2015 @ PIT W 3-2 (OT) W 39 37 2 0.949 62:32
Jan 4, 2015 @ CAR L 1-2 (SO) OTL 36 35 1 0.972 65:00
Jan 3, 2015 vs OTT L 2-3 (OT) OTL 26 23 3 0.885 60:39
Dec 31, 2014 vs TOR L 3-4 (SO) OTL 21 18 3 0.857 65:00
Dec 29, 2014 vs DET W 5-2 W 30 28 2 0.933 59:44
Dec 27, 2014 @ CBJ L 2-6 15 12 3 0.800 33:24
Dec 23, 2014 vs NSH W 5-3 W 25 22 3 0.880 60:00
Dec 21, 2014 vs BUF W 4-3 (OT) W 28 25 3 0.893 61:50
Dec 19, 2014 @ WPG L 1-2 L 27 25 2 0.926 58:18
Dec 16, 2014 @ NSH L 2-3 (SO) OTL 40 38 2 0.950 64:45
Dec 13, 2014 vs OTT L 2-3 (SO) OTL 31 29 2 0.935 64:58
Dec 11, 2014 vs CHI L 2-3 L 21 18 3 0.857 58:42
Dec 6, 2014 @ ARI W 5-2 W 26 24 2 0.923 60:00
Dec 4, 2014 @ SJS L 4-7 L 44 37 7 0.841 60:00
Dec 1, 2014 @ ANA L 2-3 L 28 25 3 0.893 58:42
Nov 28, 2014 vs WPG W 2-1 (OT) W 36 35 1 0.972 63:39
Nov 24, 2014 vs PIT L 2-3 (OT) OTL 33 30 3 0.909 60:32
Nov 22, 2014 vs MTL L 0-2 L 23 21 2 0.913 58:03
Nov 18, 2014 vs STL W 2-0 W, SO 33 33 0 1.000 60:00
Nov 15, 2014 vs CAR W 2-1 W 34 33 1 0.971 60:00
Nov 12, 2014 @ TOR L 1-6 L 16 12 4 0.750 23:32
Nov 10, 2014 vs NJD W 4-2 W 28 26 2 0.929 60:00
Nov 6, 2014 vs EDM W 5-2 W 26 24 2 0.923 60:00
Nov 4, 2014 vs FLA W 2-1 (OT) W 19 18 1 0.947 63:27
Nov 1, 2014 vs OTT W 4-2 W 29 27 2 0.931 60:00
Oct 28, 2014 vs MIN L 3-4 L 42 38 4 0.905 58:33
Oct 25, 2014 @ TOR W 4-1 W 33 32 1 0.970 59:50
Oct 21, 2014 vs SJS W 5-3 W 34 31 3 0.912 60:00
Oct 16, 2014 @ MTL L 4-6 L 23 18 5 0.783 47:15
Oct 15, 2014 @ DET W 3-2 (SO) W 20 18 2 0.900 65:00
Oct 11, 2014 vs WSH L 0-4 L 21 17 4 0.810 60:00
Oct 9, 2014 @ DET L 1-2 L 24 22 2 0.917 58:06
Oct 8, 2014 vs PHI W 2-1 W 20 19 1 0.950 59:57