Here’s something that might make you feel old: Twenty years ago Wednesday, Ray Bourque was at the center of the hockey world as the 1996 NHL All-Star Game MVP.
The 1996 game came to Boston and was held in the brand-new, then-named FleetCenter where Bourque stole the show in front of the hometown crowd. The Hall of Fame defenseman scored the game-winning goal to lift the Eastern Conference over the Western Conference in what some consider one of the best All-Star Games in NHL history.
All-Star Game heroics are nothing new for the Bruins. In winning the MVP, Bourque joined fellow blue line legend Bobby Orr as Bruins who have won MVP honors. (Bill Guerin would join those same ranks just a few years later in 2001.)
It goes without saying that Bourque’s memorable 1996 showing is among the best in Bruins’ All-Star Game history. Here are a few others:
