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.
