Wayne Whittaker
Wayne Whittaker has been a Boston Bruins Correspondent for TheHockeyWriters.com since 2010. As a Berklee College of Music graduate, and Massachusetts native, Whittaker has been around Boston, the Bruins, and the game of hockey his entire life. His work has also been featured in Sports Illustrated, Huffington Post, CBSSports.com, and Yahoo.com.
Author's Posts
Boston Bruins: Closing The Book On A Tremendous Season
June 25th, 2013 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent So this is the other side. The side we witnessed from 3,000 miles away the night of June 15, 2011. While the city of Boston was busy toasting to the new champs, Vancouver Canucks fans sat in stunned silence as another team lifted the Stanley Cup in their arena. Last night the 17,565...
Home-Ice Advantage Very Real in Boston
June 19th, 2013 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent The crowd is roaring, the spotlights flashing, the goal horn is blaring, and the repetitive thump of a tired but familiar techno song serenades you to the bench. Congratulations, your team has just been scored on by the Boston Bruins in TD Garden. Home ice advantage is no myth. In...
Stanley Cup: Boston Escapes Chicago With Series Tied
June 16th, 2013 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent It's often said that visiting teams must "weather the storm" for the first 10 minutes of a hockey game. By then, play should settle down as emotions subside. On Saturday night, it turned out to be a 20 minute storm that was thrust upon the Boston Bruins by a dominant Chicago Blackhawks...
Boston Bruins: Believe One More Time
June 10th, 2013 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent I have a pretty clear memory of walking out of the TD Banknorth Garden on April 7, 2007. A completely unremarkable game had just taken place (a 6-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators), and another Boston Bruins season had come to a disappointing close. I distinctly remember one particularly...
A Bruins Win or Penguins Loss?
June 3rd, 2013 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent Penguins in 4. Okay, you know what…Pens in 5. Fine, Pens in 6, final answer. Pens…in…seven? And just like that, the tune has and may continue to change for hockey pundits as the series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Boston Bruins progresses. Many predicted...
Bruins and Penguins Prepare For Battle
May 28th, 2013 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent Rarely in sports do we get what we want. As players, management, media, and fans, the landscape of professional sports is always evolving, shifting, and surprising. Yet sometimes it becomes quite clear that certain things were just meant to be. A Conference Finals matchup between the...