YORKTON – I am about to reveal one of my darkest secrets – as a youth I had dalliance with the Boston Bruins.
It was, as I look back now over some 50 years, a dark time.
I blame my dad though. You see he was a Montreal Canadians fan, so that of course pushed me to cheer for Toronto in defiance.
And, when I was seven, the Leafs even won a cup, although I was too young to take full advantage of the associated bragging rights that came with that Cup victory.
The Leafs weren’t the best after that, but the Bruins soon were as they had a hot shot kid named Bobby Orr show up, and there was the crazy cool goaltender mask of Gerry Cheevers, the flamboyant Derek Sanderson, and gritty John ‘Pie’ McKenzie and I strayed.
For a brief few years I cheered for Boston.
