Now, on one hand, we should feel happy for Marc Savard that he’s stepped into a role with an NHL team. The former Boston Bruins center no doubt deserves the promotion after toiling as a skills coach with the Peterborough Petes junior hockey team and various analyst gigs on television.
However, the fact that just a month or so ago, Marc Savard was waving the flag as one of the Bruins’ banner captains on their run to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, and the fact that Savard is joining the only team that won a series against us in the 2019 playoffs makes it a little harder to swallow.