One huge piece of the Stanley Cup run has been the excitement on Twitter surrounding who will be the Bruins “Banner Captain” before each game. It lights Twitter aflame every time with wild speculation and hope, listing Boston sports legends folks are hopeful will be in the building to hype up the crowd. I’m actually not too wild about it, don’t get me wrong it’s fun to talk about online but the response in the building is typically pretty underwhelming. I’ve been at almost all the games and the largest roar was undoubtedly for Gronk in game 2 (I think?) of the Toronto series, I believe it was right after he retired. David Andrews also had a huge one, as he started this year’s o-lineman chugging beers at playoff games trend. I don’t think it’s got to do with who the player is, I think it has to do with the presentation by TD Garden. Their name is never announced it’s just quietly written on the jumbotron and the camera is at a weird angle (you barely ever saw Edelman’s face), so a lot of fans don’t even know who it is. It could be done much better if you ask me, professional producer John Feitelberg.

Since Papi was cowardly attacked, people have been taking to Twitter to talk about him being the banner captain. No, I haven’t seen anyone actually hope that Papi is the banner captain, but boy have I seen tons of people complain that everyone needs to stop saying he should be the banner captain. That may be confusing but it’s what’s happening. Oodles of people are screaming into the void that it’s disrespectful to ask Papi to wave that flag, you know since he just got shot and had two surgeries and all, and the void is echoing back “WHO THE FUCK IS REQUESTING THAT.”