There's nothing like a little Rene Rancourt to lift a city's spirits.
On Wednesday night, the Boston Bruins and Buffalo Sabres played the first professional sporting event in Boston since the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday.
Rancourt, just like he always has at Bruins home games since 1976, began singing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Then he let the crowd take over.
Rancourt led the fans through the rest of the national anthem, and TD Garden burst to the rafters with patriotism.
His performance Wednesday aided Boston's healing process as well as my own.
While I feel the same sadness, despair and resolve I felt after Sept. 11, 2001, I take this act of terror personally. I've lived in Boston and I ran the Boston Marathon.
Even though I’m admiring this moment from afar, I grew up in Rhode Island, less than an hour from Boston. Rancourt was a voice of my childhood and has made a couple of surprise in-person appearances in my adulthood.
During the late 1990s, I covered the Mount St. Charles Academy hockey team for the Woonsocket Call in Rhode Island. M ...
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Rene Rancourt’s National Anthem at Bruins Game Helps Boston Heal
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