Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask is having a comparatively off season, with his 2.37 goals-against average on pace to be his highest since 2010-11 and his .919 save percentage on pace to be his lowest since that same season. But here’s some news that could take the sting out of all that.
You see, scientists have named a new species of wasp after Rask. (Get it? Sting? Wasp? I get paid to write this!)
According to the Boston Globe, a Boston-area researcher — and big-time Tuukka Rask fan, I guess — was part of a team that discovered the new species of wasp in Kenya. The entomologist, Robert Copeland, named the insect Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski because “his glove hand is as tenacious as the raptorial fore tarsus of this dryinid species,” the AP reports.
Plus, the project was partially funded by the government of Finland, where Rask is from, so there’s all sorts of NHL/Finland/wasp synergy going on here.
After spending the first 17 years of his Post career writing and editing, Matt and the printed paper had an amicable divorce in 2014. He's now blogging and editing for the Early Lead and the Post's other Web-based products.
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