While Boston may have it’s ups and downs recently, it is all in service to the ultimate prize of this level of the sport, the Stanley Cup. And as long as that is still an option for them, they will keep playing as hard as they can; day-in, day-out, as long as they can.
So have a heart, won’t you? For the players of their AHL team, their minor league squad...the Providence Bruins, who for the second time in two years, will be denied the chance to go for their own version of Lord Stanley: President Calder.