The Boston Sports Century

It’s June 2001, and Boston sports fans are throwing a party. Ray Bourque has finally won a Stanley Cup. Not with the Boston Bruins, but with the Colorado Avalanche. Yes, the city of Russell and Orr—a city that runs on Dunkin’ and a they-hate-us-’cause-they-ain’t-us attitude—is celebrating the current success of a former player who had asked out of town two years before because of just how bleak he thought things looked.