Editor's note: As part of the League's Centennial celebration, NHL.com staff members were asked to write about their favorite Stanley Cup Playoff memory. Today, Staff Writer Amalie Benjamin looks back to Game 1 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final between the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks.
It had been more than 5 ½ years since my last NHL game, a span in which I had seen more baseball games than I could count covering the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Globe. But as I sat in a luxury suite converted into a press box on the night of June 1, 2011, in Vancouver, I reflected back on the last game I had covered, Dec. 1, 2005, the day after Joe Thornton had been traded from the Boston Bruins to the San Jose Sharks.
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