History is not kind to those teams that came agonizingly close to winning the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n
The Bruins in June became the 10th team since 1971 to lose Game 7 of the Cup final. Of the previous nine, not one made it past the second round of the playoffs the following season.<\/p>\n
The last time the Bruins took the ice together, the Stanley Cup was in the building. Hockey immortality was within their grasp.<\/p>\n
Now, when they take the ice on Thursday night in Dallas to open the new season, the Cup is a far-off dream as achievable at this point for the lowly Ottawa Senators as it is for the Bruins.<\/p>\n
You go from the shocker that you went that far in Game 7 and then youre in disbelief because you thought it was your destiny, said Kay Whitmore, a goalie on the Vancouver Canucks who lost Game 7 of the final the New York Rangers in 1994. You thought, It cant end this way.<\/p>\n
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