Welcome to Boston Bruins On SI!
My name is Christopher Walsh, and I’m the publisher of Boston Bruins On SI. I personally wanted to welcome you all to our new site, which launched on the final day of the 2025-26 regular season, while the team was gearing up for a return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Why today of all days to begin? It’s simple, really. We didn’t want to wait for tomorrow.
This project is special to me, and I wanted to share with you all why.
In short, it stems from the 1987-88 Bruins. I was a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire and had promised myself that I would not give up on my old loyalties. I hailed from Minnesota, you see? And the whole East Coast rivalry in hockey that had been a big part of the Miracle on Ice legacy was a very real thing.
I didn’t want to be known as that guy from Minnesota, either. I took it to the extreme that I stopped listening to Prince (which I can now admit was a really, really stupid idea, and I have since rectified that mistake to the best of my ability).
Many of my friends were Bruins fans and every game was on TV. I couldn’t help but watch, and then grow impressed with the likes of Ray Bourque, Ken Linesman, Cam Neely, Geoff Courtnall, Steve Kasper, Randy Burridge, Bob Sweeney, Keith Crowder, Glen Wesley, Gord Kluzak, Rick Middleton and Jay Miller (I especially have to get him in since he went to UNH).
Bruce Shoebottom? Are you kidding me? Greg Hawgood? These guys have a permanent spot in my brain. Willi Plett was on that team, too.
Night in, and night out, they were so much fun to watch, and then with Rejean Lemelin and Andy Moog in net the playoffs were nothing short of must-watch, every game. The Adams Division semifinals against Buffalo went six games. The first playoff series win against the Habs in 44 years in the Division Finals. Then the seven-game conference finals against the Devils, which included the altercation between Jim Schoenfeld and referee Don Koharski, and the New Jersey coach yelling both "You tripped and fell you fat pig!" and "Have another doughnut! Have another doughnut!"
Yeah, I was hooked. How could I not be?
I didn’t know that I wanted to be a sports journalist until after I graduated, and before long my career started taking me around the country. It started in Florida, where I did some of the initial coverage of the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning (including the inaugural game against the Blackhawks and Ed Belfour, Manon Rhéaume’s preseason appearance against the Blues, and the first playoff series against the Flyers).
In 1998, I moved to Phoenix to primarily cover the NFL Cardinals and MLB Arizona Diamondbacks, in addition to the Suns and Arizona State, but I also covered every Coyotes game I could (yes, Schoenfeld was the coach believe or not). On my way to cover the Super Bowl in Miami, I hit the NHL All-Star Game in Tampa, Wayne Gretzky’s last.
My career subsequently went a different path, with a couple of seasons covering my third NFL team, the Green Bay Packers, where I started authoring books on the side (26 published so far). From there I gave college sports a try at Alabama, thinking it would only be for a couple of years, however Mal Moore hired some guy named Nick Saban. I had a front-row seat for the greatest dynasty in college football history.
In 2009, I left the newspaper world and joined my first online news outlet, and in 2018 decided it was time to be my own boss. I created BamaCentral, and through affiliation agreements wound up as part of the network now known as On SI (with Sports Illustrated). Somewhere in the middle of all that, I asked myself what I really wanted to do if given the chance and I kept coming back to the same answer: Get back to hockey.
So here we are, with a brand new online canvas (and social media accounts that are starting with no likes or followers), and an Original Six team to not only serve as our subject, but inspiration.
With that, some promises:
1) We’re going to work our tails off. We’re also going to have the most fun.
2) We want to provide something new in hockey coverage. Our aim is simple, to be the best news outlet online regarding this amazing franchise, but our goal is to make it your home for all things Bruins.
3) We are going to embrace the team’s history and not pretend the past is only in the past. There’s a reason why Bobby Orr is the main picture on our Facebook page called “Big, Bad Bruins.” We’re going to quickly start a series on what happened to all the players the Bruins drafted over the years, and sometime soon we’ll be adding more sections to the site.
4) Finally, we want you to please check us out and keep coming back, but we also want to hear from you. The easiest way to do that is to post a message on Facebook or drop us a line on social media.
Thank you!
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Christopher Walsh is the publisher of Boston Bruins On SI. He's also the founder of Alabama Crimson Tide On SI, which first published as BamaCentral in 2018, and the publisher of Nashville Predators On SI, along with the Boston College Eagles, Miami Hurricanes, and Vanderbilt Commodores sites. The longstanding sports writer is the author of 26 books including “100 Things Crimson Tide Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die” and “Nick Saban vs. College Football.” He's an eight-time honoree of Football Writers Association of America awards and three-time winner of the Herby Kirby Memorial Award, the Alabama Sports Writers Association’s highest writing honor for story of the year. In 2022, he was named one of the 50 Legends of the ASWA. Previous beats include the Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, along with Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Originally from Minnesota and a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, he currently resides in Tuscaloosa.