The Bruins obtained a few excellent news nuggets on the goalie entrance on Saturday.
First off, Linus Ullmark was again on the ice for just a little bit of labor in St. Louis earlier than the group’s morning skate. Secondly, Jeremy Swayman is an All-Star.
Though the B’s termed Ullmark as day-to-day after he suffered a decrease physique damage on Tuesday in Arizona, it was nonetheless a bit stunning to see him on the ice this shortly. When he left the sport in Tempe — extraordinarily gingerly and with the assistance of teammates on both facet of him — it didn’t seem like this was going to be a short-term damage.
“Really good sign. He’s progressing faster than we anticipated. It’s his first day on the ice, so he’s starting the process of being a player for us again,” coach Jim Montgomery instructed reporters in St. Louis.
How quickly he will get again within the lineup stays to be seen. There’s no cause to hurry him again and it may very well be worthwhile to see each Swayman get a robust of video games and call-up Brandon Bussi presumably get a recreation earlier than going again to Providence. We’ll see.
Meanwhile, Swayman was among the many first 5 NHL gamers who have been named to the All-Star recreation by the use of fan vote. Others added have been Alexander Georgiev (Colorado), Sergei Bobrovsky (Florida), Cale Makar (Colorado) and Leon Draisaitl (Edmonton).
Swayman, who’ll seem in his first All-Star recreation, had posted a 11-3-7 document with a 2.47 targets towards common and a .920 save share going into Saturday evening’s recreation towards the Blues….
Pavel Zacha (sickness) didn’t take part within the morning skate however Montgomery stated he’ll be a game-time choice.
Source: www.bostonherald.com