The Bruins have received all sorts of media attention for their night of celebration at Foxwoods after their Stanley Cup parade through Boston, with most of it focusing on the $100,000 bottle of champagne that showed up on their bar tab.
That bottle, though, wasn't purchased by anyone on the Bruins, as Shawn Thornton revealed earlier this week on a radio interview. Thornton said on the Felger and Massarotti Show on 98.5 The Sports Hub that the owner of the bar SHRINE bought the bottle for the team. Thursday night on CSNNE, Thornton, who's seen some of the negative comments being shared in the media, revealed that the Bruins are now using the bottle for good.
"The $100,000 bottle of champagne, we did not buy. It was a gift. So please stop giving us a hard time," he told Michael Felger. "It was a gift, and we're giving the bottle, after it's signed, to charity. So we're actually not bad guys."
Thornton also couldn't reveal who ordered the lone Amstel Light on the massive bar tab, but decided to "blame it on Shane Hnidy" anyway.
Thornton also didn't hold back when asked who he's rather bite (a rewording of the "Who Would You Rather Punch?" question he was asked during the season). Both Maxim Lapierre and Alex Burrows were options.
"I'll go with either of those two guys," Thornton said. "I can't stand those two."
