Just a guess, but it’s fair to say if you had quizzed hockey fans outside of the MTS Centre about Linus Ullmark prior to puck drop Sunday, the responses would have been variations on:
u275a He is the Buffalo Sabres’ starting netminder against the Winnipeg Jets;
u275a He is a Swede and a Sabres sixth-round draft pick;
u275a He is the dude with a yellow Minions-themed mask;
u275a Linus Who-mark? Is that the kid from the Peanuts?
And at about 5 p.m. Sunday, those same fans would have said Ullmark was the bleepedy-bleep who stonewalled the Jets in a 4-2 victory by kicking out 42 of 44 shots.