If the Bruins bow out in the first round, it will be a disaster every bit as epic as their regular season records, but as a true hockey fan, I know the NHL playoffs are a crapshoot where anything can happen.
, who never should've been allowed to wave to his family in Montreal during the season finale because now he's hurt again. You can thank everyone when you're in a home.
Bergeron is a link to an era when I watched the Bruins religiously. His rookie year marked Ted Donato's final season, and the Harvard product played in the early '90s with Cam Neely and Adam Oates and Ray Bourque and Reggie Lemelin, who's almost 70! Now those are my B's, even if they never sniffed a Cup.
Two games, and I'm already feeling up to speed. I wish the same could be said for Bruins coach Jim Montgomery, who desperately needs to make changes, but maybe the moment is just too big for him. His team looks tight and spooked by all this history. Why aren't they doing shots of maple whiskey between periods just to loosen things up? Why come this far and then suddenly ignore science?
I could also do without all the postgame shenanigans and tough-guy posing. You got your butts kicked, and yelling in the tunnels is weak sauce. Hockey people call it"getting chippy" and I'm as hockey as one of Ernie Shore's lumpy old sweaters, but of course Ernie Shore was a baseball player, and I definitely didn't need Wikipedia to tell me I meant Eddie Shore -- nice try thinking you could get me on that one.
Eights beat ones, sevens win it all; the greatest squad of all time bows out early.
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