Photos from Andrew Ference (@ferknuckle), Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) and Milan Lucic (@MilanLucic4) on Twitter.
After holding another informal practice at Ristuccia Arena this morning–one in which the intensity was ramped up and reportedly Zdeno Chara looked frustrated when one of his shots rang off the crossbar–much of the team piled onto an Amtrak train and headed for New York to participate in negotiations between the NHL and the NHLPA.
On the way, they decided to actually have a little fun on Twitter, much of it orchestrated by Andrew Ference. Ference’s day began bright and early when he joined about 300 other runners–and the You Can Play Project’s Patrick Burke–in running the stairs at Allston’s Harvard Stadium as part of the November Project. Burke joined the mission on a dare, Twitter goaded him and supported this effort via monetary donations to You Can Play, but both Burke and Ference managed to run 1,000 steps.
Andrew and Patrick Burke post-workout, after completing 1,000 stairs at Harvard Stadium along with 300+ runners.^BB twitter.com/NHLBruins/stat…
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) September 12, 2012
So in one day, Ference fitted in running the stairs, a high-energy practice and a trip to New York for negotiations. Other people might use the train trip to maybe take a nap. Those other people are not Ference.
We have the whole team on the train down to NYC, even picked up an Oiler, Coyote, Penguin and Predator. #theplayers
— Andrew Ference (@Ferknuckle) September 12, 2012
(He didn’t reveal the names of the people from the other teams, but since Keith Yandle is both a Coyote and from Massachusetts, that could be who the Coyote is.)
He also gave his followers a look at who was nearby on the train.
I was telling my friend Adam how popular he is amongst my twitter friends. Can pass on any messages for him? twitter.com/Ferknuckle/sta…
— Andrew Ference (@Ferknuckle) September 12, 2012
Then there is my other seat mate. Hold you comments out of fear my phone will explode. #bestguyaround twitter.com/Ferknuckle/sta…
— Andrew Ference (@Ferknuckle) September 12, 2012
The responses he got supposedly broke his phone. It’s a good thing the iPhone 5 is coming out soon, right?
SEE! You ladies killed my phone… No more Bergeron tweets! twitter.com/Ferknuckle/sta…
— Andrew Ference (@Ferknuckle) September 12, 2012
Fellow tweeting Bruin Tyler Seguin got in on the fun, too.
@ferknuckle really likes twitter,bikes,tattoos and stairs twitter.com/tylerseguin92/…
— Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) September 12, 2012
I know he’s not much to look at but he has a great personality. The other one’s name is @tylerseguin92 twitter.com/Ferknuckle/sta…
— Andrew Ference (@Ferknuckle) September 12, 2012
@tylerseguin92 and Seidenberg hour away from NYC twitter.com/MilanLucic4/st…
— Milan Lucic (@MilanLucic4) September 12, 2012
They haven’t tweeted since arriving in New York–surely too busy getting information–but maybe on the return trip home, they’ll have a little fun tweeting again.
