6. Tuukka Rask & Jaroslav Halak
The Bruins had lost backup goalie Anton Khudobin when the Dallas Stars signed him to a contract on July 1, 2018. The same day, Boston went out and signed veteran goaltender, Jaroslav Halak, to a two-year, $5.5 million deal.
In their first season as a duo, Rask went 27-13-5 with a .912 SV% and a 2.48 GAA with four shutouts, while Halak went 22-11-4 with a .922 SV% and a 2.34 GAA with five shutouts. The Bruins finished second in the Atlantic Division, and made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final after getting rid of the Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first two rounds of the playoffs, then sweeping the Hurricanes in the Conference Finals. The Bruins were not able to bring home the Cup, losing to the St. Louis Blues in seven games. Rask started all the playoff games, going 15-9 with a .934 SV% and a 2.02 GAA with two shutouts.
No one could have predicted what was to come in the 2019-20 season. Rask went 26-8-6 with a .929 SV% and a 2.12 GAA with five shutouts while Halak went 18-6-6 with a .919 SV% and a 2.39 GAA with three shutouts. The season was suspended by the NHL on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 26, it was announced the season would resume and finish in a 24-team playoff. With the regular season officially over, the Bruins had won the Presidents’ Trophy, while Rask and Halak combined to win the Jennings Trophy. The B’s went 0-3 in the Round Robin games, but got past the first round, defeating the Hurricanes in five games. The Bruins were not so lucky in the second round, getting knocked out of the playoffs by the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games. Halak played the majority of the games in the ‘bubble’ playoffs, going 4-5 with a .902 SV% with a 2.76 GAA while Rask went 1-3 with a .904 SV% with a 2.57 GAA.
The Bruins had signed Halak to a one-year extension before the season resumed, but Halak was relegated to third-string goalie by the end of the 2020-21 season with the emergence of Jeremy Swayman. Halak went 9-6-4 with a .905 SV% and a 2.53 GAA with two shutouts in his final season with the Bruins. Rask would put up a record of 15-5-2 with a .913 SV% and a 2.28 GAA with two shutouts, and went 6-4 with a .919 SV% and a 2.36 GAA in the playoffs,