Twelve years ago
June 17, 2012
That morning I was at work on 47th Street and my coworker at the diamond exchange said there was a big crowd before the NHL store.
I realized that the Bruins might have come to show off the Stanley Cup. My boss Manny asked where I was going. “Personal business.”
Sure enough inside the 6th Avenue store Bergeron, Chara, and Tim Thomas stood on an interior balcony. Bruins fans were ecstatic. The trio descended to leave and as Chara passed I asked if I could touch the Cup.
“Touch it. You can hold it.”
He handed the trophy to me and I kissed it. Tears of an eighteen year old remembering #4’s goal against the Blues.
Tears of joy.