Craig Cunningham is merely 23 years old and on his second professional contract after his entry-level pact ran its course. Yet the aspiring Boston Bruins winger is forming a can’t-miss common thread with minor-league baseball movie legend Crash Davis.
A combination of his own durability and blockage up the pipeline has put him in a position to break the Providence Bruins’ all-time games played record sometime in 2014-15.
Having missed two tilts through three 76-game AHL regular seasons, he ranks 12th on the leaderboard in question with 226 (per the Internet Hockey Database). He needs to suit up 53 more times to supplant current record-holder Jay Henderson, who sported the spoked "P” on 278 occasions.
That, you could say, would be a “dubious honor.” It would entail spending no more than one quarter of the coming campaign in the NHL.
With that said, spending a cumulative quarter of the schedule with Boston would speak to immense strides in Cunningham’s career. Having garnered a few spurts of action with Claude Julien’s club last season, the means to attain that look ...
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