It was, without a doubt, the most heavily-hyped match in what’s been a listless season for the Boston Bruins. For the price of admission, a boisterously disenchanted fan base wanted to see the hometowners (hard to call ‘em heroes at this juncture) wrest two points from the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins and have someone, anyone, exact a little revenge for Matt Cooke’s near decapitation of Marc Savard the last time the two sides met. Not necessarily in that order.
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