Bruce Cassidy on his goaltending decision for Game 2

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Dorin Canaday
May 4, 2022 (3:38 PM)

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As we all know, the Boston Bruins trail the Carolina Hurricanes one game to nothing in their best of seven series. Game two goes down tonight at PNC Centre in Raleigh, North Carolina, once again.

Head coach Bruce Cassidy stated before the playoffs that he wouldn't hesitate to use both goaltenders throughout the playoffs if needed be, and clearly, he didn't see anything wrong with Linus Ullmark's game one start. Cassidy announced yesterday that it would be Ullmark starting once again and the rookie Jeremy Swayman backing up.

Cassidy discussed why he's going back with the Swedish netminder for game two:

"Swayman's played well, and we talked about at some point we would probably use both, but I didn't see this being the reason why [to switch]. That's why I went back to Ullmark. He's played really well the last six weeks ... his stats back that up. I thought that their pucks had eyes. They [Carolina] do put a lot of pucks on net, so the challenge with Linus is going to be fighting to find them."

In my opinion, Ullmark definitely played well enough for the Bruins to win game one. Boston had their chance to be up by maybe one or two goals in the first period, and they couldn't get it done, while the Hurricanes cashed in on their chances when they needed to.

Some lucky bounces in the Bruins' favour, and it could have a different game. Definitely not a 5-1 game like the scoreboard read.

See what else Bruce Cassidy discussed in his full media coverage here:

Catch game two tonight at 7 pm EST!

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