(Ed. Note: There’s entirely too much sunshine in the summer. So your friends at Puck Daddy are offering a month of thrown shade and perpetual gloom. Behold, our Summer of Disappointment series, in which we ask fans of all 30 teams to recall the biggest bummer moments, teams and players in franchise history! Please wade into their misery like a freezing resort pool, and add your own choices in the comments!)

Written by Marshall from Days of Y'Orr



Most Disappointing Team: 2009-2010 Boston Bruins



If the night truly is darkest before the dawn, then the end of the 2009-10 Bruins season was darker than the bottomless bags of chocolate donuts than Milan Lucic scarfs down as part of his off-season conditioning program.

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Going into the Playoffs, nobody expected the sixth-seed Bruins to make much noise. But then they “upset” the Sabres, while the other top two seeds fell. Suddenly they had home ice in the second round against the Flyers, whom they promptly assaulted so hard there was an episode of Law & Order: SVU based on it.



A 3-0 series lead? Not even a team with Steve Begin and Matt Hunwick could drop four straight against a Michael Leighton-backstopped Flyers team. Right?





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A 3-0 game 7 lead? In the first period? Gone faster than Brad Marchand’s shirt on a Tuesday.



Do you know how embarrassing it is to have your team mentioned in the same fleeting breath as David Carradine when it comes to the all time biggest chokers? We’re all just grateful that this year the Sharks grabbed that torch harder than Claude Giroux grabs uniformed butt cheeks.





Most Disappointing Bruin: Zach Hamill



Four career NHL points. That’s fewer than the number of times Adam McQuaid has put himself on the IR packing his luggage.



Looking at a draft in hindsight is a terrible thing to do. I mean, how many teams passed on Patrice Bergeron twice? But looking at all the names that were drafted after the Bruins used the 8th overall pick on Hamill makes you wonder exactly how much cheap Canadian whisky Peter Chiarelli slammed down that day. At least if he had been on a Derek Sanderson style bender he could say he thought he was just drafting Anze Kopitar’s ugly brother.







Side note: It’s spelled “whiskey”. Get your crap together, Canada, Scotland and apparently also Japan.



Logan Couture, Ryan McDonough, Kevin Shattenkirk, Max Pacioretty. All selected within 15 picks after Hamill, whose crowning NHL achievement came in the form of being traded for the Puck Daddy “Most Disappointing Shot of a Legendary Career”: Chris Bourque. Which segues nicely into...















