Bruins honor Super Bowl champion Patriots before game | Inquirer Sports

Bruins honor Super Bowl champion Patriots before game

/ 03:14 AM February 12, 2017

LeGarrette Blount - Dion Lewis - Martellus Bennett - Patriots victory parade - 7 Feb 2017

New England Patriots LeGarrette Blount (left), Dion Lewis (center), and Martellus Bennett wave during a parade Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, in Boston to celebrate the team’s 34-28 win over the Atlanta Falcons in Sunday’s NFL Super Bowl 51 football game in Houston. (Photo by STEVEN SENNE/AP)

BOSTON — The Bruins have honored the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots before Boston’s game Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks.

Fourteen members of the NFL championship team walked onto center ice wearing Bruins jerseys with their names and numbers on the back.

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Running back James White – who scored three touchdowns in New England’s 34-28 comeback win over Atlanta last Sunday, including the game winner in the first Super Bowl to ever go into overtime – dropped the ceremonial first puck.

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Special teams captain Matthew Slater and linemen Nate Solder and Sebastian Vollmer were a few of the notable players who participated.

There was a video package of highlights of the game played on the Jumbotron before they entered.

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