On a night when the Boston Bruins paid tribute to the legends woven through a century of hockey, it should come as little surprise that Milan Lucic also managed to defy Father Time.
For the first time in over 3,000 days, Lucic skated back on the TD Garden ice in a black-and-gold sweater.
And even during a ceremony where franchise fixtures like Bobby Orr, Patrice Bergeron, Tim Thomas, and Ray Bourque arrived on Causeway Street, it’s a testament to the reputation Lucic cultivated here that he received one of the loudest ovations in Boston’s season opener.
“Just being back here at the TD Garden and the flow of things and back on the home side with this crowd and all that, it was good to be back all and all … “It was a lot of fun to hear the “Loooooch” chants in Boston again,” Lucic said.