Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Bruins.com - Just two days after the Boston Bruins played their final game of the 2007-2008 season, the locker room was being cleaned out, and things were wrapping up in the Hub of Hockey.

There may have been a bit of sadness in the air as the final press conferences and locker room interviews took place, but there were certainly no regrets on this "Breakup Day."

“When we started the season…one of the things I said to our players was one of the things I [wanted] to dominate the season [was] that we play hard every night,” said Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli. “We did that through the course of the year and then throughout the playoffs.”

Both Chiarelli and head coach Claude Julien, who sat beside the GM as they both addressed the media one last time, had a positive attitude as they looked back at the many months they’d spent in the TD Banknorth Garden and on the road.

“I think guys really responded through a couple of periods of adversity,” Chiarelli said, “[and] I think it’s critical, crucial, to the development of our team to have the [playoff] series that we had.”