This tab is a fucking beast -- $156,679 and shit change.

Holy Baby Jebus. They dropped more in one night than I'll make in four years (before tax).

There are some questions that remain:

* Who bought the 1 Amstel Light and 1 Corona?
* 136 bottles of Bud Light? Seriously? We'll just piss in a jar and mix in some tap water next time and save the team $680. 
* What? No Sam Adams?
* We have no idea what BOT Ace MIDAS is but we have a feeling a drop of it is worth more than our collective lives.


In fact, we probably owe like $10,000 for showing a picture of what the bottle looks like
* What, on this list, did Seguin drink? The 18 Red Bulls? Or the 67 bottles of Fiji water?
* Bruins are huge wine-os

Some videos from the team's weekend excusion.



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The 2010-2011 Boston Bruins season was magical. It's the only way I can properly describe what I witnessed from October to June. Wow, October to June. When the Bruins won the Stanley Cup, I called my sources within the Bruins organization to see if the Days of Y'Orr staff could each get a day with the Cup. Source believed that Days of Y'Orr was an integral part of the Bruins cup run, starting with Unfinished Business back in September and continuing throughout the season. Source also stated that Tim Thomas printed out a picture of Top Gun Timmy and hung it in his locker, looked at it three times a day and would order mini sliders for it when they had cheeseburgers.

The plans between the Boston Bruins organization and our organization were underway. Before any of the players were allowed to take it, Days of Y'Orr was given first crack at it. Now, a lot of people are probably wondering why...well:

1. Boston was afraid Chara would bring it home and it would never come back to the US
2. Boston was afraid Andrew Ference would damage the inside of the bowl due to smoking hemp out of it
3. Boston was afraid the glare off of it would cause Marc Savard to drop it down the stairs
4. Johnny Boychuk's lustrious blue eyes would melt it
5. In his old age, Mark Recchi would put it down and forget where it was

Due to these concerns, we were allowed to get it first. So I shall recant for you, our wonderful readers, our day with the Stanley Cup.

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I arrived at the Days of Y'Orr headquarters around 8am. Justin, Robb and Patrice were already there and we were waiting on Jon, who is perpetually late. We started to discuss our plans with the Cup when Jon came busting through the door like HQ was on fire. It startled us a bit, but he just started stammering.

"Cup. Outside. Stanley. Here." and was pointing to the door. A loud knock echoed throughout HQ as the five of us ran to the door. We opened the door and standing in front of us was the ugliest little man we've ever seen. Pizz leaned back and whispered into Justin's ear.

"Ugly little spud isn't he?"
"I think he can hear you, Pizz."

The little troll like creature looked up at us and opened his mouth. Words began to flow through his baked bean looking teeth.


"You want precious?" He said as Patrice walked up to him and they got eye to eye. A few seconds later, Patrice turned to me and nodded his head.

"Yes. Give it here!" I yelled as a Tommy Lee Jones from Men In Black look alike got out of a black Escalade and brought the Stanley Cup to us.

"Take care of precious!" The little thing hissed as Jon slammed the door in his face.

We looked at the Cup in all of it's silver glory. The shine coming off of the Cup could melt our polar ice caps. Hell, it could melt our box of Snow Caps that Patrice is so found of. We looked at it, in awe, with no real idea of what to do first. All of a sudden it hit me. I grabbed the cup and ran upstairs as the other four followed me. I headed to the kitchen and grabbed a box of Honey Nut Cheerios and poured it into the bowl of the Cup. I then proceeded to dump some milk into it and threw Justin, Pizz and Jon some beer.


We proceeded to stuff our faces with chrome polish, milk and Cheerios. It was, literally, a breakfast of champions.

We finished breakfst and let Patrice lick the milk out of the bowl of the Cup. Jon jumped into the shower and brought the Cup with him. Because I wish to remain on the Bloguin network, I'll let you fill in the blanks. While Jon was in the shower, Justin and Pizz began to plan the party. We decided to have five thousand of our closest friends and family (or strangers, we don't care), celebrate this win with us. While they were making the calls and writing the tweets, I was outside in the pool blowing up the inflatable beer pong table. Nothing is classier than beer pong in a pool.


Everything seemed to be in place for one hell of a rocker. The strippers were attaching their boobie tassles, the poker tables were set up, the cock fighting arena was constructed and an influx of people flowing through the door like a Tyler Seguin shirtless pictures on the Internet. The rest of the night got a little blurry, but here are the pictures we found on the camera.

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It's been a good ride man. I came to Days of Y'Orr in January and immediately hit the ground running with "Grindin' Gears", a way to get my unorganized rants about the NHL, and more specifically the Bruins, out to the masses. People enjoyed them. I never tried to make it more than what it was - a way for me to scream like a maniac about everything you're thinking (or even saying on things like Twitter). So this is the last one for the season and how fitting is it that I'm not even going to rant at all. What the fuck am I going to say? I'm mad they won the Stanley Cup?

Yeah right. Yeah right!

I'll never be able to put the season into such eloquent words like Jon did on Friday. If you want a true breakdown of the 2010-2011 Boston Bruins season, read that. I can't say whether you'll cry or not, but you may want some tissues in the vicinity just in case.

It still feels like it's Wednesday night. I can still feel the elation rushing through my body as though my blood was taken away and joy was pumped through my veins intervieniously. I remember the chants at the bar. The "Let's Go Bruins" chants. The "We Want The Cup" chants. The "M-V-P" chants when Tim Thomas came into view. I remember the count down when the clock struck 10 seconds.

9 seconds. I can't believe this is happening.

8 seconds. Tears are starting to well up in the eyes of those around me.

7 seconds. This is really happening.

6 seconds. The Boston Bruins

5 seconds. are going to be

4 seconds. Stanley Cup Champions.

3 seconds. Can you believe it?

2 seconds. Screaming. Crying. Hugging. Elation.

1 second.

...and boom.
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The Days of Y'Orr staff pretty much took yesterday off to let everything sink in. Really, it still hasn't. We've spent so much time trying to find the words for what this means to us as fans (and when we say "we" or "us" in this post we don't just mean the DOY staff... we mean all of us....Bruins fans).

We keep watching the highlights over and over and over. It is never going to get old. Never. We all saw our dear Bruins hoist the Cup.

The Stanley Cup Win puts everything in perspective. Some of us have been waiting 40 years. Some 30 years. Some 20 years. Some still not quite old enough to fully understand what this historic win meant to the players, to this city, to us.

We've all lived and died with this team for years. When the Patriots won Superbowls, when the Red Sox won World Series, when the Celtics won an NBA championship...for us puck heads, something was still missing. There was a 35 pound, Cup shaped hole in our souls that no other championship could fill. And quite frankly, most of the DOY staff doesn't care about baseball or basketball. We wanted a Cup by any means necessary.

Boston's lessons really began in 2008. The lessons, the hard earned lessons they needed to know, started then. That classic series against the Canadiens that made the building vibrate but that ended in a sound defeat in Game Seven against the hated Habs. This journey all began at that moment. Various Bruins GM's had begun to assemble what would end up being the 2011 Stanley Cup champions but the hard, emotional lessons needed to win a Cup began with that series.

The Bruins were simply a team that needed to fall as far as possible in order to learn how to rise again. It wasn't easy. They were taken to school more times than we cared to remember before  Wednesday night. But they were studying and learning and preparing.

In 2009 the Bruins fell to the Hurricanes in overtime of Game Seven in the second round. In 2010 they fell to the Flyers in Game Seven after holding a 3-0 lead in the series. Our years of waiting for a Cup made us extra bitter about those defeats. What we didn't know at the time is that it was all necessary, all part of the process.

And that brings us to this season.

After the jump..... our Bruins are Stanley Cup champions.....

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You already know tomorrow's the Boston Bruins Duck Boat Parade in Boston. You probably know the route, have a good idea of where you want to stand, etc.

Doing a post on this anyways.

Via Boston.com, the parade is taking the same route as the Celtics in 2008. 

From the Garden, the parade will take the following route:

-Left on Staniford Street

-Left on Cambridge Street

-Right on Tremont Street

-Right on Boylston Street

And all the way to Copley Sq.
 
There'll be parking/driving restrictions obviously. Boston.com has all that info.

Parade starts at 11am but you'll want to get there early if you want to see what's going on. These parade's are always packed and are insane.

But totally worth it.

You also have a chance to win a ride on one of tomorrow's Duckboats. The NHL Alumni Org is raffling off a chance to be part of the parade instead of sitting with the rest of the peons. Tickets are $5/each with a minimal purchase of two tickets. Drawing ends at 8pm tonight. Winner is announced at 8:15. Add a comment

We'll get a recap up soon, we swear. A quick post during the lunchbreak at the dayjob just would've have cut it for last night's game.

For now feast your eyes upon the latest and final History Will Be Made video for the 2010-2011 season. 

History Returns to Boston.


Man tears are flowing as we speak.

DOY reader Marissa sent this in.

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Screencap by @krejcis_moxie.
Fucking beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.



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We'll have plenty to say about this in the coming days. Right now, there are no words. There is only this:

 
The best team won. The Bruins are Stanley Cup champions.  THE BRUINS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS.  Add a comment

This is it, ladies and gentlemen.

Nothing more left to save. Nothing more left to do but watch two teams duke it out to hold 35 pounds of glory above their heads

We're expecting everyone in the Bruins line-up to bring it in full force tonight. Tonight's the ultimate Do or Die. They'll play like it. They've faced how many Game 7s over the past several years? Feels like a 100. The team's used to it. This year has been Boston's year for Game 7s.

Recchi will be a beast tonight. He'll be tossing bodies in the corners and tipping pucks in front of Luongo like he's 20 years old again.

Thornton will be hungry and hitting folk every shift.

Thomas will be Thomas. He'll have the record for most saves in a post-season by the end of the first period. Conn Smyth is a given.

Chara's slapper will have some extra zest to it.

Boychuk will be tuning up the band and laying down some sweet hip checks.

You get the picture.

Since the start of the year we've said the Bruins had Unfinished Business to make up for from last year. And this post-season has been their Redepmtion Tour.

Well tonight they can finish that business and redeem themselves in the ultimate way. 

There's been little game-to-game momentum this series but we think the Bruins bottled up some of that Game 6 dominance and took it on the flight with them. They'll remember what it takes to beat Vancouver and how to get to Luongo. Hometown crowd's not going to affect Boston tonight.

Tonight is all business.


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I always go back to the old saying "Act Like You've Been There Before". Growing up in the world of sports, both as a participant and as a spectator, I've tried to live by it. When it comes to parenting, I try to live by it. It's a phrase I almost use daily, teach to the kids I work with and try to teach my own child (soon to be children). Act like you've been there before.

For the city of Boston, we have been there before. We were there in 2001, 2003, twice in 2004, 2007 and finally in 2008. Although the streamers were different colors, the jerseys were from different sports and the trophy held in the air were different colors, the jubilation was still the same. Tonight, if the Bruins win, will be no different. The city will be flooded by a sea of black and gold. 39 years of frustration, hardship and shit luck will finally be washed away from a franchise that has struggled to gain acceptance in a town full of championships.

Years ago, and I mean three or four years ago, the Bruins were an after-thought in this city. The media, outside of a few dedicated writers, wouldn't step out on the Garden ice for all the money in the word. WEEI, a prominent AM radio station, would take Bruins calls only to mock the fans. Hell, one night I was watching the Bruins on TV, a family member came downstairs and said "What the fuck are you watching? The Bruins suck." Now, that mind has been changed. It was a niche sport that was followed by a few, but dedicated, fanbase.

Tonight everyone is a Bruins fan. I've heard stories about "bandwagon" fans. I've listened to coversations about the Bruins that have made me shake my head. You know what, I'm okay with it. I want people to like the Bruins. I want stations like 98.5 the Sports Hub to constantly take Bruins calls. I want blogs, newspapers and news outlets to constantly cover the black and gold. I want hockey to rise above the other sports in Boston and become what it used to be.

So why am I writing this to Bruins fans? Tonight is special. Win or lose, tonight is the pinnacle of what Bruins hockey has come to. A franchise that has struggled to find an identity climed out of the ooze and amassed a young nucleus of talent that can keep them relevant for years to come. Win or lose, this is going to be a fun team to watch for a long time.

While you are out tonight, be careful. Boston already has a stigma of being brutish hockey hooligans. The fans are "classless", "careless" and "thugs". We piss off people, piss on people, degrate fans of other sports teams and are the rudest mother fuckers this side of the valley. We're drunks who just "want to watch hockey fights" and "don't know the sport at all". All of these things, things that other cities has written or said about us, aren't true.

Don't allow a celebration to become violent. Don't cross the line from celebration to riot. There's no reason for a celebration, a time where you should be arm in arm with a fellow Bruins' fan, to come to violence, hate or hospitalization. There's no need to climb a street light or telephone pole. There's no reason to flip a car. There's no reason for the police to start using crowd control tactics. Celebrate tonight like it will never happen again, but be smart about it.

I know I shouldn't have to write this to the Bruins crowd, but there's always one person who ruins it for everyone. Be respectful of the businesses around you. Be respectful of the people are you. Once again, this isn't a time to light YOUR city on fire. This is a time to celebrate.

Be safe, be careful and more importantly, be happy.

LETS GO BRUINS!
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