The Wraparound: Goaltending not the problem for Bruins vs. Hurricanes

The Wraparound is your daily look at the 2022 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. We’ll break down the NHL playoff games today with the all-important television information.

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The Boston Bruins will have a couple of changes to their Game 3 lineup on Friday when they try to get on the board in their First Round series against the Carolina Hurricanes. Some of those changes will be by necessity (Hampus Lindholm‘s injury taking him out of the lineup). Others will be strategic in an effort to change something about what has been, so far, a one-sided season-long matchup.

The main change in the latter category will be a goalie switch that will see Jeremy Swayman replace Linus Ullmark in net.

Ullmark started the first two games of the series, allowing eight goals on 57 shots (an .860 save percentage) in his first career playoff action. It was a split net during the regular season with Ullmark and Swayman splitting the playing time nearly 50-50 (with nearly identical results) but it was Ullmark that got the start when the playoffs began and it has taken then just two games to try something new.

Switching goalies is the obvious and easy change at this point, but the Bruins’ problems in this series run far deeper than who is in goal.

Ullmark has not been great through the first two games, but he is hardly the reason the Bruins are returning home and facing a 2-0 series deficit. The team in front of him, quite frankly, has been awful and is still