Bemstrom knocked home a rebound for his seventh of the season. By Patrick Dunne January 14, 2020 7:21 PM. A tough blow fell on the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night moments after the puck was dropped on the ice against the Blue Jackets in Columbus.Their starting goalie Tuukka Rask took a jab to the head from Emil Bemstrom and went down in his crease. January 14, 2020 - 10:37 pm When texting this station, message & data rates apply. Many fans expected Bemstrom to receive supplemental discipline for the move, but Blue Jackets insider Aaron Portzline of The Athletic just revealed that the forward will not get called for a hearing. Wow! © Attraction Web Inc. - No copy of the content is permitted. That’s what veteran backup goalies are supposed to do, not give up two very stoppable goals, one from outside the dots on a Columbus power play.Luckily for Halak, his poor relief performance gets overshadowed by the Bruins’ lack of a physical response to Bemstrom’s misdeed. Subscribe: Tuukka Rask has concussion after taking elbow to head early in first period vs. Blue Jackets . The Blue Shirts’ season is officially over… However, that didn’t mean the Blue Jackets shouldn’t have had to take some heat, actions that should’ve began as soon as it was obvious something nefarious had happened to Rask.How about getting in Merzlikins’ grill?
And that was that.Emil Bemstrom (the guy who injured Tuukka Rask) wanted no part of Brandon Carlo The Bruins can’t be blamed if Bemstrom wouldn’t fight. Luongo confused by the comments of his former teammate. Portzline: Elvis Merzlikins rolls, Emil Bemstrom hunted: Observations from Columbus’ shutout of Boston. Emil Bemstrom scored 4:35 into overtime, and the banged-up Blue Jackets beat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Monday night. If no one on the ice saw what happened (understandable), and no one on the bench saw the play (less likely), wasn’t anyone curious to see what happened?The Bruins finally figured it out during the break, but Columbus started the second period on a power play. The Bruins didn’t lose to St. Louis just because of a toughness deficit. He’s been out of the lineup for nine months, though. They’re not going to run into a hot goalie like Merzlikins every night, and 31 shot attempts will usually provide you a goal or two.But after months of saying they have enough team toughness but playing pacifist hockey, will the Bruins’ attack instinct kick in before they suffer more injuries or get ground down in a playoff series?How the Bruins answer this question or how Sweeney acts to address this issue is what matters.© 2020 Entercom Communications Corp. All rights reserved. No penalty You know the “hold me back, hold me back” sort of challenge.Once 60 minutes of hockey were through, one goalie was out for the night, and who knows how long it’ll be until we see Rask in action again (Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy revealed after the game Rask was concussed). When the sides were even again and Bemstrom got on the ice, Jake DeBrusk got in his ear with some trash talk during a scrum. Had a Bruin jumped an “unwilling” Bemstrom and delivered a vigilante-style beatdown, a hearing with league disciplinarians would have been staged …
Since Day One of this season they’ve talked about having enough toughness, and the lineup card looks like they should, in this day and age, with Sean Kuraly, Chris Wagner, Brett Ritchie and Zdeno Chara on the Bruins’ side of the ledger. Then Brandon Carlo hit him hard twice, once in each team’s zone. Message frequency is recurring and varies. File photo . Said the elbow to Tuukka Rask was unintentional, that he was crosschecked on one side and twisted his torso as he skated through the crease.