BOSTON — The Bruins are two victories in the Stanley Cup finals from extending Boston’s reign of championship gluttony — 12 titles in an 18-year stretch that reached full-bloom obnoxiousness in February with, yawn, yet another Patriots triumph in the Super Bowl.
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They are also two victories over the St. Louis Blues from doing something that few of those teams, for all of their greatness, ever accomplished.
From the curse-breaking 2004 Red Sox to the Celtics in 2008 to even the Stanley Cup-winning group of Bruins in 2011, what those Boston teams lacked — and these Bruins have, in relative abundance — are actual players from Boston, or close to it.