The Sunday Read: Meet the Bruins EBUG Living Out His Dream
BOSTON –– Tyler Bost picked up a cellphone name from his boss.
It was Brian Daccord, the president and founding father of Stop It Goaltending, the place Bost is a director. Daccord was additionally the goaltending coach for the Boston Bruins from 2000 to 2002. He had a proposal for Bost.
With Jeremy Swayman and Joonas Korpisalo each in Milan, Italy, representing their respective international locations at the Winter Olympic Games, the B’s had been set to be goalie-less when NHL practices resumed on Wednesday.
Boston stuffed one internet with a call-up of Michael DiPietro from Providence, and outsourced the different. Would Bost wish to function a observe goalie for the Bruins, Daccord questioned. The reply was an apparent sure.
“One thing led to another, and I just welcomed the opportunity,” Bost stated. “Just like, what an opportunity. An opportunity to pick the guys’ brains – I’m a goalie coach myself, so just try to see what this level is all about, and enjoy it. Just go with the flow.”
Bost, who’s a New Jersey native, performed 4 years of NCAA Division III hockey. After three years at Nichols College, he transferred to UMass Boston for his senior season in 2024-25. Now, he’s a lead goalie coach for Stop It Goaltending, which makes a speciality of the complete growth of netminders.
One second, Bost was instructing kids positioning in the crease. The subsequent, he was between the pipes himself, heading off the shot of Morgan Geekie, the Bruins’ main goal-scorer.
“You want to go in and not get torched – you want to make some saves and just be ready to go,” Bost stated. “Today, I just got my feet underneath me a little bit. Felt a little bit better, able to track the puck. I think that’s the biggest thing – going from men’s league to this. Just the puck tracking, in terms of me hitting my spots, was a little bit weird the first day. Then day two felt a lot better.”
