Usually, playoff-bound teams would use the last few weeks of the regular season to give their projected postseason starter a bulk of the workload.
Gone are the days of Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek and other elite goalies receiving nearly 70 starts per season. In today’s NHL, a majority of squads use a goaltending rotation to spell their netminders from the 82-game grind. Even so, coaches often tend to have their top playoff goaltender in mind by this point of the season.
Given Linus Ullmark’s Vezina-worthy campaign (35-5-1, 1.95 GAA, .937 SV%), conventional wisdom suggests that the Boston Bruins would ride or die with the Swede.