Concord, MA
“I'm not leaving without a fight.”
-“The Outsiders” by Need to Breathe
As this song played at my favorite Dunkin’ Donuts on Sunday morning (less than twelve hours after the Bruins lost Game Two to the Canadiens) , I chose to scan— rather than read every word, as I’m wont to do—every story about Boston’s Bruins in the Boston Globe. I plucked from amongst the rubble of negativity, a few positive points to include below.
Top Twelve Reasons to Believe in our Bruins
1. Comebacks: In best-of-seven series, the team down 0-2 has come back thirty-seven times to win that series.
2. Number 37: Patrice Bergeron won fifty-three percent of his face-offs, got a goal, and had six shots on goal.
3. Shots on Goal: Sixty-six in two games. Keep shooting and they will go in.
4. Ding Dong: Our shots that have been hitting a post, which don’t count as shots on goal, will go in, too.
5. Tomas Kaberle: The much-maligned defenseman was a plus-1 in Game Two.
6. The Power Play: The Devils, in 1993, were the dregs of man-advantage play in the regular season. They also won the Cup.
7. Hit the Road: The Bruins won two dozen games on the road this season, two more than they did at home.
8. Puttin’ on the Hits: Bruins, 35; Habs: 27.
9. Stranger Things: If the Penguins can go 15–10–4 sans Sidney Crosby and minus Evgeni Malkin, the Bruins can win this series.
10. Rebounds: The Bruins have strung together consecutive wins together after having lost two in a row.
11. Remember 2008: Down two games then, we can get this series to Game Seven.
12. Big Zed: Claude Julien says it's "looking good" for Chara to play in Game Three.
We need to breathe, Boston. Let’s back our Bruins.
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