BOSTON – Bruce Cassidy doesn’t care about legacy and isn’t all caught up in the hype surrounding the Stanley Cup Final.
When he was asked about these things on Wednesday morning ahead of Game 7 at TD Garden, he had a simple motivation headed into tonight’s winner-take-all game against the St. Louis Blues on home ice. It wasn’t about bragging rights or being the best, or even about going to Disney Land after winning the championship.
“I just want my name on the damn Cup,” said Cassidy. “That’s what I want.”
It’s a perfect answer from the B’s bench boss setting the tone for everybody else on the team headed into a game where confidence is high coming off Game 5’s 5-1 victory in St. Louis, and where Boston has the clear advantage in terms of experience and mindset. It’s also a reminder that while the motivation is extremely high for the B’s core group that have won before including Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci and Brad Marchand, there also guys like Cassidy, Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak, Brandon Carlo and others that have never hoisted the Cup before.
They want to reach the same hockey mountaintop that Boston’s grizzled veterans have been to before and they’re just 60 minutes of quality hockey away from making that happen. Cassidy’s short, to-the-point motivation is exactly what should be going through the minds of everybody in a Black and Gold uniform when the puck is dropped for Game 7 on Wednesday night.
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