The Boston Bruins have a weird way of celebrating and they also have very expensive taste.
The NHL squad deserves full marks for what they did not long ago in Vancouver.
They eliminated Montreal in overtime of Game 7, they walked all over Philadelphia in four straight, then they edged Tampa bay for what was their second Game 7 win of the playoffs and they still weren't done.
Each of those teams could easily be legitimate Stanley Cup contenders in any given year. Montreal gets stronger, Philadelphia was last year's Cup finalist, and Tampa Bay would have been more favoured to win the playoffs then Boston ever was.
But as is not news anymore the Bs won the Cup following a Game 7 win in Vancouver.
Following their win in the Stanley Cup final over the Vancouver Canucks, the team known as the 'Bs' went out one night recently and indulged like rock stars.
There's nothing weird about that.
According to a story posted online at www.canoe.ca, they rung up a tab of $156,679.74 at the SHRINE nightclub at the MGM-Foxwoods casino, three days after their Cup win.
Bruins winger Shawn Thornton had exchanged texts with one of the owners of the club and the entire team wound up going bowling at Foxwoods before retiring to the bar.
Two things stick out here.
The Boston hockey club won the Stanley Cup for the first time in over 30 years and to celebrate their longest season since then (they played in about 107 hockey games) and to celebrate the greatest achievement in sports, they went bowling?
Also interesting, injured forward Marc Savard, who had been sidelined with a concussion, made it out for the fun, put up some good scores on the bowling alley.
The team showed an incredibly expensive taste in drinks too. Most notable on their tab that night, is a $100,000 charge for a bottle of Ace of Spades "Midas" champagne, a 30-litre tub of the premium grog which was served up by the club's owner. Apparently there are only six bottles of it in existence.
It was also twice as big as the bottle which Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban bought for his team after they beat the Miami Heat for the NBA title.
Also on the Bruins bill that night in terms of what they ordered, according to pictures found on the internet: nine bottles of Grey Goose vodka ($5400) which was supposedly a tribute to the goose egg (shutout) which goaltender Tim Thomas threw at the Canucks in the seventh and deciding game.; four bottles of Crown Royal ($1200) in honour of winning the Stanley cup on Canadian soil perhaps???. Three bottles of Captain Morgan ($900), one bottle of Croc Red ($350), 26 bottles of champagne -this must be the really cheap stuff?? Thirty-five Jager bombs ($525), 16 Red Bulls ($90), 16 sugar-free Red Bulls ($90), 135 Bud Lights ($680), two Coors Light ($10) and a Heineken Light ($6).
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