From the ECHL to Eastern Conference champs, Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy has come a long way - The Boston Globe
Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy was speaking to an acquaintance 10 weeks to the day since Alex Pietrangelo lifted the Stanley Cup over his head at TD Garden, a display of sparks erupting behind the Blues captain. It remains a sore subject.
Game 7 has yet to stop twisting its knife.
“Nope, not really,” Cassidy said, when asked if he’s over it. “Today I am. Tomorrow, depends if someone asks me a question that just happens to hit a nerve.”
Training camp begins the second week of September. The season opens Oct. 3.
“There’s no way,” Cassidy said, that he will be thinking about Game 7 while counting sheep in Dallas the night before the opener. He’s also honest enough to admit that he will indefinitely have a hard time seeing a Blue Note.
“There might be a time on the road next year and we’re sitting there and I’m watching St. Louis play, because they’re playing Montreal and we play Montreal the next night, and I’ll be like, [expletive], you know? That’s the time you might start going backward. But no.”
It was a short summer for Cassidy, slightly numbed by the way the season ended, and subsequent surgery.
He is eight weeks out from a long-awaited left knee replacement, is back golfing, and cleared to ride his bike. He is training mostly off-ice at Warrior Ice Arena, along with a group including defensemen Kevan Miller (broken kneecap), who might be able to start the season on time, and John Moore (broken humerus), who will not. Also seen recently: Charlie McAvoy, still without a contract. Cassidy hadn’t asked him about that, but said if McAvoy ever needed advice, “I would certainly give him my two cents.” Cassidy hadn’t yet run into Brandon Carlo, another unsigned restricted free agent, but expected to soon.
Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy was speaking to an acquaintance 10 weeks to the day since Alex Pietrangelo lifted the Stanley Cup over his head at TD Garden, a display of sparks erupting behind the Blues captain. It remains a sore subject.
Game 7 has yet to stop twisting its knife.
“Nope, not really,” Cassidy said, when asked if he’s over it. “Today I am. Tomorrow, depends if someone asks me a question that just happens to hit a nerve.”
Training camp begins the second week of September. The season opens Oct. 3.
“There’s no way,” Cassidy said, that he will be thinking about Game 7 while counting sheep in Dallas the night before the opener. He’s also honest enough to admit that he will indefinitely have a hard time seeing a Blue Note.
“There might be a time on the road next year and we’re sitting there and I’m watching St. Louis play, because they’re playing Montreal and we play Montreal the next night, and I’ll be like, [expletive], you know? That’s the time you might start going backward. But no.”
It was a short summer for Cassidy, slightly numbed by the way the season ended, and subsequent surgery.
He is eight weeks out from a long-awaited left knee replacement, is back golfing, and cleared to ride his bike. He is training mostly off-ice at Warrior Ice Arena, along with a group including defensemen Kevan Miller (broken kneecap), who might be able to start the season on time, and John Moore (broken humerus), who will not. Also seen recently: Charlie McAvoy, still without a contract. Cassidy hadn’t asked him about that, but said if McAvoy ever needed advice, “I would certainly give him my two cents.” Cassidy hadn’t yet run into Brandon Carlo, another unsigned restricted free agent, but expected to soon.