BOSTON — Ryan O’Reilly hugged his parents with the kind of emotion you can’t really put into words.



They were on the ice, where he had just captured the Stanley Cup in a season nobody would believe in a fiction novel.



The 28-year-old native of Seaforth, Ontario, thanked his parents again and again, and hugged them as tightly as can be.



“Ah gosh, that was really emotional,” said O’Reilly, his voice cracking. “The hours and the money they put in, I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be in the NHL having this as a job if it wasn’t for them and all the stuff they put in. It really was emotional. I couldn’t stop thanking them for putting their lives aside for us and doing whatever they had to to bring us to hockey games and training. I just can’t thank them enough.”



It was mom and dad that a year ago reminded their son he was not the problem in Buffalo. That he would rebound in St.