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Before adding my little bit to the excellent and heartfelt tributes I’ve read on Facebook, I encourage anyone really seeking to understand why the loss of Ken Dryden shakes the ground under the rink of so many older hockey minds to find the Facebook post authored by Sports Museum curator Richard Johnson and the tributeContinue reading “Ken Dryden changed how GM’s pursue the Stanley Cup”

For all of the speculation focused on the reshaping of the Boston Bruins’ forward lines via trades or especially via the opening of NHL free agency at 12 noon ET Tuesday, July 1, General Manager Don Sweeney got done this morning the one thing he absolutely needed to do ahead of the bell, and thatContinue reading “Bruins’ back end back in shape”

Rarely does Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney speak so matter of factly about a roster hole on his hockey team like the one left by his March 7 trade of Brandon Carlo to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The sweet, compensatory package of futures notwithstanding, he readily acknowledged in answer to Fluto Shinzawa’s question lastContinue reading “Bruins’ choices narrowed at R2-D2”

Seeing a fun-loving, 18-year-old Joe Thornton pull on full goalie gear in the sweltering heat of 1997 to play net in a street-hockey game at Revere Beach involving Boston Bruins coaching and scouting staff, future teammates, the legendary Willie O’Ree(!) and – gasp – media was an experience I will never forget. It seemed likeContinue reading “Passing ships pull into Hall together”

With every passing decade, I’m less likely to predict a winner, but I’ve got a bad feeling for Boston Bruins fans. That draft pick that GM Don Sweeney acquired in the Brad Marchand trade is probably going to be a second-rounder after all. I’ve never been sure if this is Toronto’s time – more onContinue reading “Too tall a mountain for Florida”

Boston fans, the future is on the phone and wants to have a heart-to-heart. We’ve moved beyond the celebrated emergence of adults who had never held a newspaper to adults who have never asked themselves if the last championship is closer to now than the next one. These are growing pains. If you love yourContinue reading “Bruins’ future beckons”

It wasn’t that many years ago when those three words sent a shockwave of electricity through the fans of both hockey teams, but 2008-14 is becoming a forgotten era in the psyche of both markets, their fandom preoccupied with the long journeys that lie ahead. Tonight, the Chicago Blackhawks skate onto TD Garden ice asContinue reading “Blackhawks at Bruins”