Just 72 hours removed from arguably the most amazing comeback in playoff hockey history, the Boston Bruins will take to the TD Garden ice to begin their second step towards a hopeful second Stanley Cup in three years.  On the bench next to them will be, for the second straight series, an Original Six foe.  […]

When the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011, they weren’t the best team in the NHL Playoffs.  They weren’t the best team in the Eastern Conference, and despite winning the Northeast Division with over 100 points, they were, at times, not even the best team in their subgroup of franchises.  The franchise had […]

The 2011-2012 Boston Bruins season is over.  There will be no repeat Stanley Cup championship.  There will be no parade throughout the streets of Boston on duck boats.  There will be no champagne and beer flowing from Lord Stanley’s hearth.  And there will be no banner raising ceremony in the fall when the team reconvenes […]

Every year, hockey fans endure anywhere from a week to two months of intense personal hell.  They’ll sweat, cry, cheer, hug total strangers, and have moments of intense disappointment and unbridled joy.  For the next eight weeks, beards will grow to unknown lengths, players will go from teammates to heroes to gods, and, when it’s […]

–Dan Rubin– There was a time in this town when hockey coverage on sports talk radio was reduced to a one minute interval on the midday show.  The Boston Bruins were the ugly duckling of the city’s professional sports scene, playing a sport nobody watched, games that nobody really cared about.  Hockey itself was floundering, […]