Monday, May 01, 2023

“Bruins fans disappointed after Game 5 loss to Panthers” (WBZ)

Steady streams of black-and-gold-clad fans worked their way up TD Garden’s many stairwells Sunday night, backs turned against the cruelty of what they had just witnessed down on the ice.

Shocked into silence by the Bruins’ overtime loss to the Florida Panthers in Game 7 of this first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, their stunned faces and slumped shoulders told a story destined to be remembered forever, not for the glory envisioned after these Bruins turned in a record-setting regular season, but for the embarrassment and disappointment of one of the worst choke jobs in Boston sports history.

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...[WHO THE FUCK ARE] The Florida Panthers? Nothing more than a speed bump on the way to June, an overmatched opponent that was the last team to qualify for the playoff field...This is superb writing by Tara Sullivan of the Boston Globe.