Boston Bruins: How should we feel about former Bruin joining the Blues?

Not only did the St. Louis Blues prevent a Boston Bruins Stanley Cup win; they’ve now added a former Bruin as an assistant coach.

Now, on one hand, we should feel happy for Marc Savard that he’s stepped into a role with an NHL team. The former Boston Bruins center no doubt deserves the promotion after toiling as a skills coach with the Peterborough Petes junior hockey team and various analyst gigs on television.

However, the fact that just a month or so ago, Marc Savard was waving the flag as one of the Bruins’ banner captains on their run to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, and the fact that Savard is joining the only team that won a series against us in the 2019 playoffs makes it a little harder to swallow.

You can argue that petty grudges shouldn’t be held over a former player, but the sheer manner in which the St. Louis Blues went about defeating the Boston Bruins; with countless missed calls and reckless plays makes it very challenging to accept.

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If it had been a clean series and the Blues had won fair and square, no grudge held, not even considered a rival. However, this season coming, I fully expect any encounter with St. Louis and Boston involved to be fairly heated. No player in either line-up is easily going to forget the rivalry that was created over the course of seven games this June.

Unfortunately for Marc Savard, the next step in his professional coaching career means that he will be a part of that. Whether he loves the Bruins or not; he’s now a rival, and in a big way!

You can hazard plenty of ‘what might have been’ scenarios when it comes to Marc Savard’s Boston Bruins playing career. Fact was, his first year with the team he had a 96-point season and followed it up with two more upwards of seventy points.

He was certainly a point-producer prior to post-concussion syndrome putting him out of the game for good.

For his time with the Boston Bruins, we are of course thankful. The Bruins showed this by petitioning the league to ensure he had his name engraved on the Stanley Cup in 2011, despite not making enough appearances. Obviously, you’d prefer to see a player that spent some good times with the team end up working as staff with that very same team, but it doesn’t always (in fact, often it plain doesn’t) happen that way.

We respect the person that Marc Savard is. However, he is now very much in enemy territory. We don’t particularly like the St. Louis Blues; the loss is still too fresh!