As Jonas Gustavsson was the lone goalie on the ice during the Bruins’ optional skate Saturday morning at TD Garden, it appeared that Tuukka Rask was in line to make his fifth consecutive start Saturday night when the Bruins hosted the Columbus Blue Jackets. But late Sunday afternoon, head coach Claude Julien decided to call an “Omaha” or as most quarterbacks call it, an audible.
“Yeah, you know, he got the news at the last minute that he was playing. Tuukka [Rask] was scheduled to play, and we made a change there this afternoon for certain reasons that Tuukka wasn’t 100 percent; nothing major, obviously he’s a backup,” Julien told the media following Saturday’s contest.