NEW YORK – Pretty much every single Donato family member, every single friend, every single neighbor inside Suite 510 at TD Garden on Saturday night was a lifelong Boston Bruins fan.



Yet, for one night, some secretly – and some not-so-secretly – rooted for the Wild.



Once upon a time, Ted Donato played nearly 800 games in the NHL, beginning and ending his eight-team career with the Bruins.



Yet, in the first period, when the Wild’s Jason Zucker scored the game’s first goal, then Alex Stalock denied Charlie McAvoy on a 3-on-0, the longtime Harvard men’s hockey coach jumped up and cheered from the box overlooking center ice.



“I was worried the (NESN) camera would flash by me and say, ‘He’s a traitor now,’” Donato said, laughing, during the first intermission.



Hey, you can bet the Bruins TV analysts would have understood.



Donato’s son, Ryan, a 2014 second-round pick...