“That’s the game everyone is talking about,” Jimmy Hayes told Bruins Daily last month. “So I put it on my dad. If you need tickets, call my dad. He’ll take care of you.”
After Boston shipped Reilly Smith to South Florida last June in exchange for Jimmy Hayes – and the NHL schedule came out in mid summer – November 27 was circled on many a Hayes’ family and Dorchester calendar for official Boston bragging rights.
Way back it was the Esposito’s – Phil with Boston and brother Tony with Chicago. The last few years the Smith’s — Brendan wearing the red and white as a Red Wing and Reilly in black and gold.