Carly Newton (Cook) ❃

just a new england girl livin’ in a landlocked world 🇺🇸 I mostly tweet about the Boston Bruins #GOBS ♻️♻️♻️

[Chris McCluskey @mcclusk]

This is unbelievable.

[m. stanfield @resetbasis]

In 2004, I was a bartender at the Cask 'n Flagon next to Fenway Park. I'll never forget what this series was like in Boston.

Down 3-0, everyone in Boston said, "The curse is real, maybe next year."

Down 3-1, everyone said, "Well, we were bound to win one."

Heading into game 6, the city started to feel different. The series was 3-2, and everyone knew no one had ever come back from a 3-0 hole. Especially not the cursed Red Sox. Still...maybe?

There was no social media back then; everyone watched the same thing at the same time. It was one of a handful of truly shared social experiences I've been a part of. "Where are you watching the game?"

When they won game 6, people started to believe it was destiny. Every single bar and restaurant was showing the game, and people came out of their homes to watch it in public spaces, hoping to be part of something historic. French restaurants, coffee shops, and any place with a TV became a packed sports bar.

I was behind the bar for Game 7. The game was played at Yankee Stadium, but the bars next to Fenway were at capacity for hours before the game. I've never been in an environment like that since; the tension and the excitement, the "what if we actually do this?" People hung on every pitch.

When they made the final out just after midnight, the place exploded. People celebrated, thousands came down to the Fenway area and ran through the streets. I watched the broadcast show people running through the streets as they ran past the bar's windows. No phones, no selfies, no Instagram, just people living in the moment.

Everyone on that team has a special place in Boston sports history. Whenever I see this video, I'm reminded of how incredible sports can be sometimes.

[anushka @mintyfia]

the beautiful and prosperous country of new england sports

[YG @Young_Gritty]

Rare “My body, my choice” take from Tage

[Big Head Hockey @bigheadhcky]

Every player drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs with a playoff hattrick, salary cap era:

• Nazem Kadri
• Mitch Marner

And neither of them did it in a Leafs jersey.

[a marcheron apologist @perfectionline]

I fear I miss the Bruins already. Toxic ass relationship.

[YG @Young_Gritty]

BREAKING: Gavin McKenna is expected to meet with State College Police tomorrow. The expectation is he request jail time instead of being drafted to the Maple Leafs.

[Ethan Gagnon @Icymane18]

Last successful 3-1 comeback in the NHL through 5
Game 1: Bruins
Game 2: Panthers dominate
Game 3: Bruins
Game 4: Bruins score 6
Game 5: Panthers in OT

Bruins vs Sabers
Game 1: Sabers
Game 2: Bruins dominate
Game 3: Sabers
Game 4: Sabers score 6
Game 5: Bruins in OT
#NHLBruins

[Mar³⁹ @maronmeadows]

hockey twt mad about Swayman being a vezina thropy finalist so... Jeremy Swayman hoes mad edit

[lex @nhllex]

“Intent to blow the whistle” as if the ref didn’t just watch the entire play unfold

[Conor Ryan @ConorRyan_93]

Jeremy Swayman this series

[Bruins Diehards @BruinsDiehards]

Hang it in the Louvre #NHLBruins

[Meth Bear @meth_bear]

If the Bruins season comes to an end tonight, at least we'll know the only play off game they won was the Josh Allen one

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[anushka @mintyfia]

january 1st versus today. need this injected into my bloodstream genuinely

[Conor Ryan @ConorRyan_93]

In less than a week, the Bruins have defeated the Sabres, Wild, Blue Jackets, and Stars.

Boston is rolling right now.

[Bridgette Proulx @bridgetteproulx]

Pastrnak on the Mittelstadt-Zacha-Arvidsson line:

"It's impressive. They never met each other and they've been a great line the whole year. Every time they are on it makes it so much easier for the rest of the group to follow up, and when they have nights like this, not many nights we come up short."

"Pav has been on a great goal streak and we'll need that, and it's been really fun to watch and I'm super happy for him."

[low yield lucy @picotop]

Tiger’s commute home from Jupiter Island