It was the biggest year for the Boston Bruins in decades, and I honestly could not have cared any less. Me, a sports writer for a major Boston newspaper and "die-hard" fan of everything Boston, was more concerned about the state of the putrid New England Revolution (MLS) than I was the conference-leading B's.
Like most (ex-)fans, you could blame the lockout. After that, hockey just did not have the same appeal to me. They just became grunts scooting around the ice while scoring less than a geeky high-school student.
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