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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Fourth Rate Column

When you have nothing else to write about and you've used up your quota of 'picked-up pieces' columns for the month, you write about which team's on the bottom of the local sports totem pole.
Four is a number always associated with the Boston Bruins.

Bobby Orr — the greatest hockey player of all time — wore No. 4. Black-and-Gold No. 4 jerseys pepper the stands wherever the Bruins play. The best Boston sports bar is The Fours on Canal Street.

Now, as the Bruins get ready for a new season, they once again are all about number four . . . but this time not in a good way.
When I saw this column, I got the sense that Shank had written something like this before. A search of the archives did not ratify this belief, but you'll be shocked to find out that the overwhelming majority of Shank columns on the Boston Bruins were written... after a loss.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

and he acts like he is a hockey krishna all of a sudden. but then again he ripped claude julien for years calling him "coach for life claude" oh but when he was fired on the day of the pats parade which btw had to happen because the team was skating on mud dan gets angry about the timing. yeah dan you are a hockey expert all of a sudden