BRIGHTON, Mass – Tuukka Rask will be back in goal and the Bruins again may be missing some bodies when they suit up on Sunday afternoon against the struggling Edmonton Oilers.
Brad Marchand has been ruled out from a potential return after wearing a red no-contact jersey at practice Saturday at Warrior Arena. Ryan Spooner and Peter Cehlarik were missing from practice after Friday afternoon’s win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Cehlarik (lower body) was meeting with doctors on Saturday in a development that indicates he’s out for Sunday and Spooner will be a game-time decision.
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Rask will also get the start in net after sitting out the past four games, all wins, started by Anton Khudobin. Bruce Cassidy is hoping that the rest period can spark the struggling No. 1 netminder.
“It's his turn to go. It’s his turn to play. We've had terrific goaltending out of Doby and hopefully, we'll get terrific goaltending from Tuukka,” said Cassidy of Rask, he of the .897 save percentage, a 3-7-2 record and a 2.89 goals-against average. “Then everything will be terrific."
Here are the line combos and D-pairings from practice, and the anticipated game lineup, with Jordan Szwarz back up on emergency recall for the Black and Gold:
Boston Bruins
Heinen-Bergeron-Pastrnak
DeBrusk-Krejci-Vatrano
Schaller-Kuraly-Szwarz
Acciari/Marchand-Nash-Beleskey/Backes
Chara-McAvoy
Krug-Carlo
Grzelcyk-Miller
Postma
Rask
Khudobin