It was blistering hot today – a real jump into the furnace of mid-summer after a very long period of some hot but tolerable days.

As hot as today was, however, it can’t compare to how hot the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins were this post-season. So how about those Bruins? Never watched them all year but felt compelled to flip back and forth between last night’s Game 7 and the Red Sox on NESN. Hard to believe it’s been 39 years since their last Stanley Cup. I remember being 16 back in 1972 and working as a stockroom clerk at the W.T Grant’s department store when the Bruins of the Bobby Orr/Phil Esposito era won their last Cup before last night. That, my friends, was a long time ago.

I’m no hockey fan, but it’s great that Boston is once again the hockey capital of the world. Congratulations to the black and gold – hockey once again reigns supreme in Boston!

…at least until, it is hoped, baseball does in October.