9. Tuukka Rask & Chad Johnson
After the Bruins lost the 2013 Stanley Cup Final and then lost their back-up netminder, Anton Khudobin to free agency, they signed goalie Chad Johnson to a one-year, $600,000 contract. Johnson had not played more than five games in a season up to that point in his three-year career.
Johnson managed to put up a 17-4-3 record with a .925 SV% and a 2.10 GAA, also posting two shutouts in his full-season debut. Bruins starting goaltender, Tuukka Rask, also picked up where he left off the previous season, going 36-15-6 with a .930 SV% and a 2.04 GAA. Rask had seven shutouts on the season, leading the league for the second straight year. All of this would earn Rask the Vezina Trophy, the only one of his career.
The Bruins made it to the second round of the playoffs, only to be ousted by the Canadiens in seven games. Rask went 7-5 with a .928 SV% and a 1.99 GAA with two shutouts in the postseason. In the offseason, Johnson’s contract was up and he signed a two-year, $2.6 million contract with the New York Islanders.