Vancouver Canadians catcher Jackson Hornung grew up in a Boston suburb and he can still sound disappointed about the 2011 Stanley Cup Final vs. the Bruins.
Hornung was cheering on the Vancouver Canucks to beat the Boston Bruins so ardently back then that his elementary school classmates playfully chased him around the playground one afternoon during the series.
Hornung, 23, is from the Ashland, Mass., which is about a 30-minute drive from Boston. He played as much hockey as he did baseball as a kid. He’s the son of a transplanted New Yorker and Hornung says that his favourite NHL teams are the New York Rangers and whoever happens to be playing the Bruins, which leads us back to that seven-game set 13 years ago.
“My friends can attest to that day,” Hornung said of the playground shenanigans. “It was a funny day because I got a lot of crap.
“I still get a lot of crap. My friends say I’m a bandwagon guy. I’m not. I just don’t like the Bruins.”
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