COMMENTARY
The Bruins’ “Shirts Off Our Backs” ceremony stands as a time-honored tradition at the end of an 82-game gauntlet.
Beyond its sentimentality, the sight of the Bruins doling out their sweat-soaked sweaters to their fans routinely served as the end of one chapter — and the start of a spring inundated with fan banners, elevated blood pressure, and the sweet sounds of Audioslave blaring over the TD Garden speakers.
But six months after the Bruins opened a new campaign in South Florida, a season that once started with so much promise was perhaps best encapsulated by Tuesday’s postgame ceremony on Causeway Street.