Milbury: Bruins found their passion
Hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and for those among us who dare brave the shopping malls today, I hope you get through it with only surface injuries.
Just a quick pre-chat note here to link to today’s media column, which leads with NBC’s attempt, beginning with today’s Red Wings-Bruins matchup (1 p.m.), to make the “Black Friday” matinee game as national tradition just as it has been in Boston since the early ’90s. Mike Milbury, who is in his usual studio analyst role today, said he’s extremely impressed with how the Bruins have recovered from their slow start.
“They’re playing hard and they’re playing with passion, and they’ve gotten back to playing the way they did during their run to the Cup last year,” Milbury said. “And you can’t really blame them for starting slow. Last season was so long, with three seventh-game victories, and they had the right to have a great time over the summer, to celebrate what they accomplished. But it was such a short time away — what did they have, eight or nine weeks off, really? — so the slow start wasn’t unexpected, and the recovery from it has been impressive.”
There’s also an item on NESN’s hunt to replace Heidi Watney as its in-game Red Sox reporter, noting that Molly Sullivan (a Las Vegas native, North Carolina graduate, and self-proclaimed Red Sox fan) is perceived to be the front runner at the moment.
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