Rask 'ready to roll' for Bruins against Maple Leafs in Game 6

BOSTON --Tuukka Rask will start for the Boston Bruins against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference First Round at Air Canada Centre on Monday (7 p.m. ET, NBCSN, CBC, TVAS, NESN).
The Bruins lead the best-of-7 series 3-2 and will advance to the second round to face the Tampa Bay Lightning with a win.

"Tuukka tomorrow, ready to roll," coach Bruce Cassidy said Sunday.
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If Rask's status for Game 6 was in doubt, it was because the goalie was pulled from a Stanley Cup Playoff game for the first time in his career after allowing four goals on 13 shots in the Bruins' 4-3 home loss in Game 5 on Saturday. Anton Khudobin stopped all eight shots he faced in the third period.
Rask, however, has the full confidence of the Bruins entering their potential closeout game. He has a 2.90 goals-against average and .904 save percentage in the series.
"Yeah, he's a competitor, always is," forward Brad Marchand said. "Obviously he held himself accountable for last night. Obviously, it wasn't just on him. We could've been better in front of him as well. Collectively as a group we need to be better. I'm sure he'll be ready for tomorrow. ...
"He's hard on himself, holds himself accountable and expects to be big for this team, which he has been for a long time. We're fortunate to have a guy with the character that he has."

Without digging too far back into Rask's history, Cassidy also expressed faith he would follow up a poor start with a solid one.
"I thought Game 3 he was average, he came back with a very good game in Game 4 in Toronto," Cassidy said. "So I guess I'll take the immediate history and say yes [he can bounce back]. Clearly we need that going in there. I don't want to re-visit it 100 times. I will say last night I didn't think he was at his best. We made a move accordingly.
"I didn't think our team was at its best defending in front of him. In terms of killing rushes, we allowed them too much space. That went hand in hand. And tomorrow we need to be better in both those areas."