There is one stat from Saturday night that says it all. Look at faceoffs won by the Bruins
DURING Game 5 of the 2013 SCF, Bergie was rushed by ambulance to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago which is a little further away from the United Center than another top-tier hospital in Chicago but it is considered the best hospital in the region.
They were going to ADMIT him and only released him on the word of a Bruins team doctor from Mass General that he would be admitted at MGH as soon as the charter landed. He wasn't and played in Game 6 and THEN spent a few days at MGH.
Bergie is the de facto captain of the Bruins and everybody close to the team knows that. This is not a knock on Chara at all as he is a pillar in the room as well. It is the same dynamic the Big Bad Bruins had where Bucyk wore the C but Bobby was the captain in the room.
To this day I can't believe he recovered from this awful moment in 2007.
Already battered, Bruins ponder life without their most...
GLENDALE, Ariz. — It is somewhat puzzling that a team can lose an entire six-pack’s worth of defensemen and still keep its collective head held high.
It is not a mystery, however, that this same head begins to droop with the addition of a certain someone to the list of the lame.
In terms of numbers, losing Zdeno Chara (left knee), Charlie McAvoy (head), Brandon Carlo (upper body), Kevan Miller (right hand), John Moore (lower body), and Urho Vaakanainen (head) represents a 6-to-1 ratio of blue-line bodies lost compared to the one that’s now absent up front.
But it was not just any forward who watched Saturday’s game against Arizona from the Gila River Arena press box.
It was Patrice Bergeron.
DURING Game 5 of the 2013 SCF, Bergie was rushed by ambulance to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago which is a little further away from the United Center than another top-tier hospital in Chicago but it is considered the best hospital in the region.
They were going to ADMIT him and only released him on the word of a Bruins team doctor from Mass General that he would be admitted at MGH as soon as the charter landed. He wasn't and played in Game 6 and THEN spent a few days at MGH.
Bergie is the de facto captain of the Bruins and everybody close to the team knows that. This is not a knock on Chara at all as he is a pillar in the room as well. It is the same dynamic the Big Bad Bruins had where Bucyk wore the C but Bobby was the captain in the room.
To this day I can't believe he recovered from this awful moment in 2007.
Already battered, Bruins ponder life without their most...
GLENDALE, Ariz. — It is somewhat puzzling that a team can lose an entire six-pack’s worth of defensemen and still keep its collective head held high.
It is not a mystery, however, that this same head begins to droop with the addition of a certain someone to the list of the lame.
In terms of numbers, losing Zdeno Chara (left knee), Charlie McAvoy (head), Brandon Carlo (upper body), Kevan Miller (right hand), John Moore (lower body), and Urho Vaakanainen (head) represents a 6-to-1 ratio of blue-line bodies lost compared to the one that’s now absent up front.
But it was not just any forward who watched Saturday’s game against Arizona from the Gila River Arena press box.
It was Patrice Bergeron.