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In the tug-of-war of his criticism, Tuukka Rask still needs to be better

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I realize I must be breaking some sort of highbrow code that should relegate me to depths only inhabited by (gasp) sports-talk radio hosts and Twitter trolls, but I want a crack at the teflon bubble that seemingly encompasses Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask.

Rask, of course, is the six-time Vezina winner, and four-time Stanley Cup champion (at least, that’s the sense I get from the goalie’s public relations staff on Level 9 of the Garden) who, despite his perceived foibles in net, remains one of the league’s top netminders. Only Henrik Lundqvist ($8.5 million) and Segei Bobrovsky ($7.