Tim Thomas News

Five of the last 11 Conn Smythe Trophy winners have been goaltenders. Two years ago, Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins won the award and Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings took it last season.

The Bruins were down by three goals midway through the third period, and all they had to do was register a comeback for the ages to eliminate the heartbroken Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime of the seventh game.

The conditional draft choice becomes a first-rounder should the Bruins advance to the Eastern Conference final, but suddenly, and perhaps expectedly, that prospect has become the well of water on the desert horizon.

And so, again, a memo to Bruins coach Claude Julien: Don't crack jokes when you're asked legitimate questions about why the teams you've coached during your Boston tenure play lazy, dumb, uninspired hockey in non-Game 7 closeout games.

Regardless of the when and how, B's goalie Tuukka Rask is playing with house money at this point and once the offseason hits he's going to get paid.

Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne recently underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left hip, general manager David Poile said Thursday.

Things didn't look all that great for the Bruins as the overtime minutes played out last night at the Air Canada Centre.

Bruins head coach Claude Julien knows not to pump his goaltender's tires just four games into the Stanley Cup playoffs.

On Tuesday, the NHL announced three finalists for the Vezina Trophy as selected by the league's 30 GMs.

May 6, 2013; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Maple Leafs forward James van Riemsdyk tries to get a shot on Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask during the second period of game three of the first round of the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs at the Air Canada Centre.

Despite playing on one of the top clubs, in one of the top markets, in the Eastern Conference, Tuukka Rask has sort of flown under the radar in his first full season as the unquestioned starter between the pipes for the Boston Bruins .

Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was so widely disregarded during fantasy drafts this season that owners actually took the slim chance that 39-year-old Tim Thomas would cancel his sabbatical over drafting the former Philadelphia Flyer.

In a conference call this afternoon, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli confirmed the ESPN report that goalie Tim Thomas is considering sitting out next season.

Every NHL playoff team fought through an arduous regular season to reach this stage.

During the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, then-starting goalie Tim Thomas put the Bruins on his back and carried the team all the way to its first Stanley Cup victory in 39 years.

One indeed suspects that the opening 20 minutes of this best-of-seven playoff series will have a lot more to with testosterone and setting a rambunctious tone than with creativity and imagination.

The playoffs are a big time for everyone, but for Boston goalie Tuukka Rask it's a chance for him to prove how much he's worth.

It would be easy for Bruins fans simply to give up on their team's power play. For years now, the Bruins have defied accepted wisdom and managed to win despite getting little from the power play, which in this shortened season produced only 18 goals and ranked 26th in the NHL.

Despite their recent struggles, the Boston Bruins have a legitimate opportunity to make a run in this year's NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

We present to you a new series explaining exactly why particular members of the Boston Bruins are the absolute worst, in no particular order: The Boston Bruins are a truly amazing hockey team.