One for the Ages

In one of the most entertaining 1-0 hockey games you might ever watch...The Boston Bruins hung on tonight to defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning to move on to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1990.

This is truly a moment that the longtime hardcore Bs fans have been waiting for...and it is much deserved.

21 years in the making, this Bs team has battled inconsistency all year long, before finding their groove in the playoffs -- mainly behind 37-year-old netminder Tim Thomas.

Thomas recorded the shutout when it was needed most, at home, in a Game 7 with it all on the line, and a raucous hometown crowd at his back.

The Bs played an almost flawless game. Keeping it 5-on-5 the entire game, and not giving the (rightfully-so) vaunted Tampa Bay power play any chance to do any damage.

21 years since they got here...38 since they last brought the Cup home.

The powerhouse of the West -- Vancouver Canucks are up next. The Bs will have to head across the continent for Wednesday night's game...and they have their worked cut out for them. Vancouver has been a wrecking ball all season long and it is going to take four more games like tonight out of the next seven in order to see the Cup makes its way back to Boston for the first time in nearly four decades.

The task seems daunting, but something tells me this team just might be up to the challenge.