In the marathon of life and atop the pantheon of Boston immortals, former Bruin Milt Schmidt passed away Wednesday at the age of 98. He was born in 1918, six years before the franchise with whom he played and served for a lifetime was founded. Only Ted Williams comes close in the breadth and depth of Boston lore; Bobby Orr in that of the Hub of Hockey.
Schmidt adorned the Black-and-Gold sweater for 16 seasons in the era of the Original Six and without the existence of television and any of the social media of the current age, taking his first shift in 1936.