Tuukka Rask News

“Right now he’s ready to go. … Whether he has a little of stiffness, which is a normal thing for anybody coming off surgery, we’ll be able to tell more as we grind through camp here,” said Julien. “But right now there’s no limitations for Tuukka and we’re going to go about it as though he’s 100 percent.”

Rask remains one of the elite handcuffs in the League. If you take Tim Thomas in the early rounds, it only makes sense to give yourself a contingency plan and take the 24-year-old in a later round.

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