Game 7 - Bruins @ Canucks - Protect the Civic

Papo The Snow Tiger

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I have a five year old daughter. Ever since she was old enough to have a bed time we've always had cuddle time right before she goes to bed. If they're on, cuddle time involves either watching the Red Sox or Bruins with the lights down low. She's old enough now to understand hockey when she watches it. Last week she asked me "Number 17 for the Bruins is a rough player, isn't he?" I told her she was right. She just smiled.

My daughter knows that she's not old enough to stay up and see the whole game tonight, so asked me to either leave a Bruins or a Canucks hockey card next to her teddy bear so she'll know who won if she wakes up before I do tomorrow. I have a Milan Lucic card all picked out.

GO BRUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Zososoxfan

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It's hard to get through this thread without getting a little dust in your eye.

There are so many beautiful, sincere sentiments in this thread. I'm a first generation Boston, and I don't yet have children, so I can't speak to the amazing family memories constructed around Bruins games. However, having spent the last four years in various cities for law school and work after, I can say that sports teams - more than anything else - are little emblems of your hometown you can carry with you anywhere. As much as I wish I were watching the game tonight at a local bar, or with friends somewhere in the shadow of the Garden, the idea that I can be in Philly, and root for BOSTON, my city, city of my birth, makes me feel an inviolable, unshakeable connection with my dearly missed hometown.
Marciano, I'm in the same boat. I love all the posts from dads and older fans, but this one made the office a wee bit dusty for me.
 

NickEsasky

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I don't think I have been this excited about something Bruins related since I got the Bruins Starter[sup]TM[/sup] jacket I wanted for Christmas when I was 12.

Of course much like waiting for that Christmas morning, waiting for this also feels like an eternity.
 

PedroSpecialK

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Finally. 4:28. My self-justified exit time. Off to Sully's then maybe the Purple Shamrock.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's been an incredible journey. Be happy, be safe, and most importantly - go Bruins. It gives me the shakes thinking something like this could happen tonight:

 

Old Fart Tree

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I am heading to the Buccaneer at quarter to five to get my spot. Please feel free to join me, any Bay Area soshers...
 

scotian1

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I have a five year old daughter. Ever since she was old enough to have a bed time we've always had cuddle time right before she goes to bed. If they're on, cuddle time involves either watching the Red Sox or Bruins with the lights down low. She's old enough now to understand hockey when she watches it. Last week she asked me "Number 17 for the Bruins is a rough player, isn't he?" I told her she was right. She just smiled.

My daughter knows that she's not old enough to stay up and see the whole game tonight, so asked me to either leave a Bruins or a Canucks hockey card next to her teddy bear so she'll know who won if she wakes up before I do tomorrow. I have a Milan Lucic card all picked out.

GO BRUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great story!!!
 

Marciano490

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I love this city....

I’m from Boston – harsh city by the sea – salt air in my lungs. Athens here, Sparta there, gold dome over cracked streets. Quadrant city – north, south, east, west – everyone in their right place. Too cold here for the melting pot. Here, the holy relic rock, the first shouts for freedom - ignored across the ocean, the first shots for freedom - heard ‘round the world. Pilgrims’ progress. Ancient shrines, paved-over battle fields, plazas where the powder dried. Company of monumental horsemen, swords, teeth drawn – snarling, righteous in their eternal charge.

My city. City of my birth, some friends cradled in its ground. Cross-marked and steel-bound, too soon to the tomb. Across the river, professors and panhandlers circle the Square, pleading, palms out, latter-day lepers, shit the ivy crawls over. In the Commons, commoners and Back Bay barons fall in together to stroll with the swans in an urban Eden.
 

SawxSince67

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The little town of Bethlehem.
I feel pretty good about this here.

My expectations are as follows:

Bruins exercise their stronger will.

Vancouver succumbs.

Causeway Street erupts in awesome.

Downtown Vancouver riots.

Tell me which part isn't feasible?

Exactly.

Book it.
 

jezza1918

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I dont have the time to scroll through all these game thread pages to see if this has been brought up before, so if it has, I apologize...
I am looking for any kind of mojo possible tonight, and as such does anyone remember back in 04 sox playoff game threads, every time Ortiz did something positive someone posted the quote from Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah,' "i heard there was a secret chord, that david played & it pleased the lord..."
I am thinking someone should do this tonight every time Krejci does the same. I would...except I live in effing VT and get next to nothing when it comes to the 3g network. Anyone? Or you can just laugh this off. Either way, go Bruins.
 

Frito Tankona

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I don't post often, but this is definitely the right time to do it. I grew up in a baseball family and didn't really follow the Bruins very closely until about four years ago, and didn't obsessively watch the games until the 2009-2010 season.

Last fall, I started grad school in upstate NY. My wife remained at our home in Boston and visited as often as possible (though not enough). It sucked. I missed Boston desperately, especially during a miserable Ithaca winter. I swear this Bruins team got me through that winter. I didn't have cable up there so I watched every game on some pirated streaming feeds. Each game was a ray of sunshine in an otherwise dreary place and my wife and I will be Bruins fans forever.

Back in Boston for the summer, it's amazing to see the transformation into hockey town.

Go Bruins!
 

Ferm Sheller

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Just allowed myself to picture Chara raising the Cup over his head on the mound at Fenway on Friday night and I lost all bodily function for like five seconds.
 

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I usually never post, but what the heck...

My dad passed away when I was a teenager in the mid 80's, and some of my happiest memories of being a little kid were when he would let me stay up late with him to watch the Bruins. To this day when I see the spoked "B" (and the old TV38 logo oddly) I think of him. I look forward to watching the game tonight with my young children, thinking of the past, and the future, and soaking up every minute of it.

Lets go Boys! Bring it HOME TONIGHT!!!
 

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This thread seriously is an incredible read.

It honors so many people...certainly the Bruins, the players and front office themselves....but it goes even further and honors the best part of what it means to be a fan of sports. I can count on one hand my posts in this forum because I don't have the sharp technical hockey knowledge, the relationship with the extensive Bruins history or backstory. However, I've read each gamethread since February just taking it in and appreciating what it means to be a Bruin fan and why it is you choose to spend your emotional energy cheering for this team. What has made this Bruins team fun to follow is that we look at guys like Marchand, Ference, Thomas, Bergeron....every single one of these guys reminds us of someone we might know..or remind us of us. They're not untouchable; they happen to have an incredible talent to play a game for a living, but make no mistake, they'd also throw back a beer with us given the chance.

My wife, who hasn't watched hockey for more than 30 minutes all season, asked what a power play was sometime during the Philadelphia series. Monday night, I heard her explaining the concept to her sister. She nailed it.

My 14 year old, who's a natural greaseball, never met a shower he didn't like, fights tooth and nail to keep his hair long, asked if he could make sure his Chara jersey was washed and clean this morning so he could wear it to school today.

My 11 year old, who was watching game 3 when Horton went down, yelled "do it for Horton!" when they showed #18 at the Garden during game 6.

I think every single man, woman and child that watches this game tonight has a reason why a Boston game 7 win would contribute to their lives so richly in a way that impacts them every day going forward. Every one of those reasons is meaningful, regardless of how long you've been a fan. If you're a fan of all the things that make sports a positive part of the identity of so many families, neighborhood parks and rinks, cities and countries....then you're cheering for the Bruins tonight.

This team and these fans truly, truly deserve it. There is no other ending more appropriate than to have The Cup on it's way to the Garden tonight.
 

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Nolan fucking Baumgartner is playing tonight. No word who he's replacing.
 

Jeff Van GULLY

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They're gonna fucking win this thing and the city of Vancouver will collectively shit their pants when the clock reaches 0.00 and Chara and co. raise the cup.

Go Bruins.
 

scotian1

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When I started following hockey the Bruins who played included names like Goalies Harry Lumley and Don Simmons, Doug Mohns, Vic Stasiuk, Leo Labine, Fernie Flaman, Bronco Horvath, Willie O'Ree, Jerry Toppazzini, and Leo Boivin. These players never had a chance to win the Cup with the Bruins. Win it for them and all the other names I grew up with that never got to lift the Cup!
 

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Just looking on stubhub, I think I'll spring for the $205,888 suite.
 

RG33

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I'm 38 years old. When I was in the first grade on a school trip to the skating rink I tripped and landed on my chin. The blow travelled up into one of my top front teeth which required three root canals that year.

Needless to say, I never really learned how to skate after that. My sports loves probably go Patriots>Red Sox>Bruins>Celtics, with the Bruins and Sox being very close for second place.

In July 2009, I bought my first house and asked my then-girlfriend to move in with me. Four months later, in October 2009, my older, wilder brother ran into some legal trouble. I won't go into it much detail, other than to say that the charges stemmed involve a dishonest and vindictive ex-girlfriend. Long story short, he needed a place to stay and I had just bought a house, so he moved in with me and my girlfriend. My brother is a great guy - his heart is as big as anyone's I've ever me - but he's loud and he's stubborn and he doesn't make concessions easily.

Let me tell you, life was difficult - not only because I had my older crazy brother living with me when I was trying to build a life and family of my own, but also because of the way our judicial system works. If you haven't lived through it, I can't even begin to describe it to you. It's like if you could take every bad experience that you ever had with the RMV or some other representative of the government that didn't care about you and then switched it from them not caring about you to them actively disliking you and openly working against you, giving you false information and directions just so they can trick you into breaking parole or something. Have you ever had a police officer lie to you and tell you to do something just so they could arrest you when you did it? I have. Luckily I called the lawyer as I was driving over to do exactly what the cop said to do and the lawyer talked some sense into me.

Also, when you are dealing with the court system, everything moves at the slowest speed possible. My brother got arrested in 2009 and still hasn't received his court date as of today.
We're going on over a year and a half later and there's not even a hint of when the court date will be. You just sit and wait and wait and wait.

As these things tend to do, the tension from the legal situation at times boiled over into the way my brother and I dealt with each other. At times I was resentful with him living with us(unemployed) while my girlfriend and I had to get up and go to work. At times I wanted him gone already.

In other ways, however, my brother and I grew closer. One of those ways was by watching the Bruins together. Prior to living with my brother, I would maybe have gone to one game a year, usually if someone offered free tickets or something. Since my brother moved in with me, though, I probably went to about five games a year, usually as my gift to him for his birthday or christmas or something (he was unemployed at the time). Mostly, though, we watched many many hockey games together on NESN. He's a big bruins fan and it rubbed off on me.

I married my girlfriend in May 2010. I think I always knew I would marry her, but it was by seeing her being okay with that fact that I asked my brother to move in with us that I realized she was the one. When we got married, my brother performed the ceremony. He was still living with us at the time. My brother moved out in January of this year. I had to ask him to move out. It had been over a year and it was time. My wife is now pregnant with twins. My brother is doing well. He seems happy and on the right track.

Unless, of course, the Bruins game is on and they are playing a flopping weak team like the Canucks or blowing the lead against the Flyers or what have you. Then he's a maniac, screaming at the tv and scaring the cats out of the room.

Tonight I hope for a calm gentle night of slaughter where we go up by five goals in the first period and never let off the gas.
This was like most of my English papers in college. Great opening. Great close. And everything in the middle sucked. C+
 

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I was going to post that 207 users were in this forum at 4:45. Then, my boss came over and had a 30 min convo. Now? We're down to 142. We ain't no pikers!
 

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Heading out to pregame in DC. Good luck to the boys and all of RMPS tonight. Strap in and hang on, no better way to end this season than Game Fucking 7! Bearataurs, Civics and Head Bleeders Unite! Lets win this shit!
 

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Do you believe in beginner's luck? [/size][/font][font="arial][size="2"]1st playoff run!!! Let it be Cup worthy!




[/size][/font][font="arial][size="2"]Since game 7 of the first round, little man has outgrown this outfit. My wife cut the feet off so he could still wear it. And why not? There's still work to be done... Finish it.[/size][/font][font="arial] [/font][font="arial] [/font]
 

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I fully admit to being a bandwagonner. I was a military brat who only got to visit family in New England ever so often due to much time spent overseas in Germany and in Alaska growing up. My hometown teams are Boston's four because I have no true hometown. I adopted my parent's hometowns in Vermont because of that. My family is not big on hockey. We're Sox fans first (one of my daughter's first words were "Big Papi" who is her favorite player), Pats second, Celts third and Bruins last. I used to follow hockey until '01 when I moved to Arizona from Alaska. I just recently over the past few years got into it again.

I'm going to miss the game tonight due to my daughter's last softball game. Every time the B's have played on Wed/Fri during the playoffs, my brother sends me text updates for the score as I man the 1st base coach box. Between the text messages and refreshing on my crackberry the posts on the game thread that I breeze through in between innings, I'll stay somewhat up to speed.

Reading the game threads during the playoffs has been refreshing. The passion in here flows and I am in a strong belief that they will win tonight. I know as a bandwagon fan, I don't deserve this but EVERY post here says YOU all who have been through the highs and lows do. The City of Boston, home of one of the Original Six, deserves to have the drought ended.

Fuck the Canucks. Win.
 

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Just tried to take a nap in anticipation of my 2 AM shift after the game tonight, basically laid on my couch listening to Game 6 in the background and really didn't get much sleep. Luckily the adrenaline of a Stanley Cup victory should be enough to push me through the day...
 

MalzoneExpress

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The Bruins will never give up.

The Bruins will never surrender.

The Bruins will send all those quiche-eating, Canucklehead fans home crying like the Nancies they are.
 

Ed Hillel

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I have an autographed Orr jersey that I've never worn, but I think tonight I'm going to break it out. Sacrilgeous or appropriate?
 

Jed Zeppelin

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Wait? What? Any chance it's for Edler?
If this 36 year old nobody with 143 career NHL games (and ZERO playoff games) beginning in 1995 is seriously suiting up for the first time this season in Game fucking 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.......

This game needs to start and the Bruins need to score and score and score until their fucking arms hurt from lifting them in celebration so often.
 

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I have an autographed Orr jersey that I've never worn, but I think tonight I'm going to break it out. Sacrilgeous or appropriate?
Kinda like poppin' the cork on the vintage Champagne if you ask me. I'd use it to celebrate, but not during the game.
 

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[font="arial] [/font][font="arial][size="2"]Since game 7 of the first round, little man has outgrown this outfit. My wife cut the feet off so he could still wear it. And why not? There's still work to be done... Finish it.[/size][/font][font="arial] [/font][font="arial] [/font]
Good to see you raising your kid right!
 

Carmine Hose

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This will be in rambling fashion because I don't have the energy to craft it properly.

I've followed the Bruins loyally since Raymond Bourque was drafted (I was 7). I was as senior in high school during the 1990 finals and on a Tuesday in May I took the train into North Station and scalped a corner balcony ticket at the original Garden for $75. That was about all the coin I had and was lucky to get in. The 3OT made me miss the train and I stayed overnight at the station. Wesley missed the net at the other end of the rink and Klima ripped his shot in front of me. Crushing. Such defeats really affected me up until I had children of my own. Now their sporting experiences are more important to me than mine.

My son plays hockey and loves it. In fact too much hockey. He'll be a first year Squirt this fall, playing on the A side for his town and on an Elite AAA club team - likely a mistake. Back in January, my son's Mite team just returned from winning their tournament gold medal in Lake Placid and was back to league play. He was chasing a puck in the corner and some future douche pushed him from behind (Mite is no checking) and I thought he had Travis Roy'd himself into the boards. It was eerily the same play. He didn't get up right away. The other parents were staring at me as I was muttering under my breath, "Get up buddy." I didn't know it was happening, but water was running down from my eyes onto my face. I don't cry, ever. He eventually got up and I alomst threw up at 6:15 am at a freezing cold rink. All was well again when he surreptitiously punched the offender in the back of helmet as they skated toward their benches later in the game after a whistle. Mite Marchand was born.

Win it for all the adolescent fans out there who are inspired to play the game by their idols. Given what I went through as a youth as a B's fan, and reading all the accounts herein, this game is more important to them than it is to me.
 

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Can we get some kind of confirmation about Baumgartner? Best I've found is a piece in The (BC) Province today about how he got called from vacation last week and has been practicing with the team.