YouTube is Awesome! The NHL playoffs are Awesome!
If you're a sports fan and this doesn't give you a chill up your spine...well....you're not a real sports fan. Sorry, but you're just not.
Remember when the Bruins had that same kind of atmosphere come every spring in the Garden, back in the late 70s and 80s (I was too young for the Cup glory days)? Even though the #$%@*!@# Habs ALWAYS got the last laugh, the boys from Beantown werealwaysthisclose. "Too many men on the ice?" To this very day, none of the members of that team will give up the guy who messed up. Still, those Bruins teams were the epitome of hard work and all about giving the fans their dollar's worth. They WERE "The Lunch Pail A.C", and they were loved.
Growing up in southern NH in the late 70s and early 80s Bourque, Terry O, Cheesy, and Nifty were Gods. The fro-ed Wensink once tried to take on an entire team in a fight, and no one was willing to give him a go (can't remember the team, though but I'm sure there's a bootleg VHS tape floating around on one of the NHL fight sites that has it....). And Stan Jonathan was a mini-Incredible Hulk. Ratelle, Park (even if they were tainted by being ex-NYR's), Gilbert's one magical spring....hell, even Mike Milbury was a hell of a player. And he could certainly beat the crap outta ya with yer own shoe, asshole!
Good times..... Now that Harry ("He traded Bobby Orr") Sinden is into full on dementia, it just sucks to be a B's fan. Just totally sucks. Maybe Don Cherry could be rehired?
But as I said at the top, in what other athletic event does the singing of the National Anthems cause you to tear up? We're missing NHL playoff hockey here in New England, and have been for a while.
Remember when the Bruins had that same kind of atmosphere come every spring in the Garden, back in the late 70s and 80s (I was too young for the Cup glory days)? Even though the #$%@*!@# Habs ALWAYS got the last laugh, the boys from Beantown werealwaysthisclose. "Too many men on the ice?" To this very day, none of the members of that team will give up the guy who messed up. Still, those Bruins teams were the epitome of hard work and all about giving the fans their dollar's worth. They WERE "The Lunch Pail A.C", and they were loved.
Growing up in southern NH in the late 70s and early 80s Bourque, Terry O, Cheesy, and Nifty were Gods. The fro-ed Wensink once tried to take on an entire team in a fight, and no one was willing to give him a go (can't remember the team, though but I'm sure there's a bootleg VHS tape floating around on one of the NHL fight sites that has it....). And Stan Jonathan was a mini-Incredible Hulk. Ratelle, Park (even if they were tainted by being ex-NYR's), Gilbert's one magical spring....hell, even Mike Milbury was a hell of a player. And he could certainly beat the crap outta ya with yer own shoe, asshole!
Good times..... Now that Harry ("He traded Bobby Orr") Sinden is into full on dementia, it just sucks to be a B's fan. Just totally sucks. Maybe Don Cherry could be rehired?
But as I said at the top, in what other athletic event does the singing of the National Anthems cause you to tear up? We're missing NHL playoff hockey here in New England, and have been for a while.
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