Nostalgia kicked in on Tuesday as the Boston Bruins celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their latest Stanley Cup triumph.
Now here we are 3,650-plus days later. The Bruins endured close calls in the Cup Final in 2013 against the high-octane Chicago Blackhawks and again six years later, falling in a bitter Game 7 loss to the St. Louis Blues. They also sustained a handful of second-round exits in that span, including their most recent defeat at the hands of the Islanders, a pair of five-game series losses to the Lightning in 2018 and 2020 and a Game 7 setback to the hated Montreal Canadiens in their 2014 Presidents’ Trophy-winning campaign.