In 2004, the Boston Red Sox came back from down 3 games to none to beat the New York Yankees and win the American League Championship Series. It was a historic comeback, and the Red Sox would go on to sweep the Colorado Rockies and win their first World Series in 86 years.
Now another Boston team stands at the precipice of history, but this time on the other end. After going up 3-0 to the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the NHL playoffs, the Boston Bruins have dropped three straight. Now the series comes down to a game 7 in Boston on Friday night, with the Bruins attempting to being the answer to a trivia question.
This is my first post on hockey on this blog. I didn't get into the sport until I was 12 or 13, and really became a Bruins fan first, a hockey fan second. And since moving out of the Boston area, I mainly just follow the NHL playoffs and Olympic hockey.
A big reason is that the Bruins stunk since losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1992 Wales Conference Finals, two years after losing to the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Finals. Since then, it's been failure after failure.
That was until last season, when the Bruins won the Northeast Division and were a popular pick to win the Stanley Cup. The season ended in a minor disappointment with a conference semifinals seven-game loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.
This season was kind of a disappointment until the playoffs began. The potential of the Bruins finally broke through in a 6-game open series victory over the higher seeded Buffalo Sabres, and then a quick three games over the lower-seeded Flyers.
Since then, it's been a disaster. The Bruins lost Game 4 in OT, and since have been outscored 6-1. All of the momentum sits squarely in Philadelphia's camp.
A week ago I was hoping the Bruins could make a Stanley Cup run. Now I hope they don't end up as a historical footnote.
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