Morning Skate: Quite a decade

What a long, strange decade it’s been, eh?

Ten years ago this evening, the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 39 years, beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7.

It’s one of those things that both feels like it was forever ago and feels like it was just yesterday, all at the same time.

Time flies, I guess.

While there hasn’t been another Cup win since then, it’s fair to say that we’ve been blessed with some pretty good hockey since then.

• 2012 - First-round exit
• 2013 - Cup Final loss
• 2014 - Second-round loss
• 2015 - DNQ
• 2016 - DNQ
• 2017 - First-round loss
• 2018 - Second-round loss
• 2019 - Cup Final loss
• 2020 - Second-round loss
• 2021 - Second-round loss

Can’t win ‘em all, but it has been fun.

It’s also somewhat remarkable that it’s been a whole decade of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, and David Krejci blessing our televisions/eyeballs.

I feel old.

Anyways, this all came to mind because the Bruins announced yesterday that they’ll be airing a four-part series featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the 2011 Cup celebrations.

Episode one airs this evening at 5:30 PM on NESN, followed by June 21 (8:30 PM), July 1 (9:30 PM), and July 7 (9:30 PM).

Some people are accusing the Bruins of milking a decade-old title, but whatever. It’s fun to reminisce, and there’s nothing else going on. Let the team have some fun.

Today’s highlight

What else would it be?

Today’s discussion topic

Game 2 of the Isles-Lightning series tonight - winner and score?