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Hot Time in Olde Town Last Night While the Bruins Won the Stanley Cup [7 Videos]
Local hockey fans were thrilled after the Bruins won game seven, 4-0 over the Vancouver Canucks, on the road Wednesday night, for the team's sixth Stanley Cup championship.
The Bruins are distancing themselves from the Patriots. With Wednesday’s four zip elimination of the Canucks, the Bruins picked up the sixth Stanley Cup championship in team history.
They’ve got quite a ways to go before they catch up with the Celtics, but the B’s sixth title puts them one behind the Sox and three in front of the Patriots on the New England sports title tally board.
“It was awesome, once they buried that third goal I knew we were going to win,” Barry Razin said, out for the evening in town with several of his old Big Blue hockey teammates.
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Razin was the captain of the 1977-1978 Big Blue hockey team, and was watching the game with Paul Yasi, Tom Groom, Bill Chapman, Timmy O’Brien and Dana Patrikas, five of his teammates from that club that skated at the old North Shore Sports Center in the Northeastern Conference before they shut it down and turned it into a strip mall.
“They played great, all the “experts” picked Vancouver, but the Bruins got a few goals when they needed them, and (Tim) Thomas shut the door, he played great,” Razin said.
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The crowd at the City Bar and Grill in Vinnin Square was 100% behind the Bruins, with a packed house cheering every goal and big hit.
“I’ve been a Bruins fan for a long time,” Christine Cloutier said. “Everyone cheered hard for Boston, especially after they got their third goal.”
“I’m from Poland, and I’m new to the Boston area, the Swampscott area,” Kinga Strogoff said after the game. “But I tell you, this was so exciting, I’m definitely a hockey fan and a Bruins fan now.”
Meghan Quatieri works at Uno’s and she said the place was packed from 5:15 until the end of the game.
“People loved it, they cheered every time the Bruins made a good play, and they erupted when we scored,” Quatieri said.
Deborah Mattaliano was heading to her car on Humphrey Street after dinner at the Red Rock Bistro just before midnight, and said she was exhausted, “the game took a lot out of me, and I’m so glad the Bruins won.”
The Red Rock’s general manager Erica Petersiel said that the crowd went into a frenzy five times, after every goal, and when the game ended and the B’s were on top of the hockey world.
“So many people picked Vancouver,” Joe Capone said in the Red Rock after the handshake and the Conn Smythe Trophy was awarded to B’s goalie Tim Thomas. “Everyone picked the Canucks to take the Cup, but I knew that this was the Bruins year after (Nathan) Horton scored to beat Montreal in the opening round.”
