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Bruins looking into getting Marc Savard and Steve Kampfer’s names on Stanley Cup

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BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 02: Marc Savard #91 of the Boston Bruins takes the puck in the first period against the Tampa Bay Lightning on December 2, 2010 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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One of the grand highlights for players after winning the Stanley Cup comes from getting to have their names engraved on the Cup itself. After a full season of contributing or helping the team get to the ultimate prize in the postseason or Stanley Cup finals, being rewarded with your name living on forever on the Cup is an immense reward.

Of course, there are stipulations to getting your name on the Cup. You have to either play in 41 games during the regular season with the team or you have to appear in a game during the Stanley Cup finals. For a handful of Bruins players, there are some potential issues to getting their names on the Cup.

CSN New England’s Joe Haggerty points out how Marc Savard and Steve Kampfer run into some issues with the protocol to get their names on the Cup. For Savard and Kampfer, there’s a process that the Bruins and GM Peter Chiarelli will have to go through to try and get them included in the engraving party.

Chiarelli is hoping both will find their names on the Cup despite not meeting the general criteria that doesn’t take season-ending injuries into account among its qualifications. There is a petition process that the B’s manager is looking into when it comes to Cup inclusion, and just won of a number of things on Chiarelli’s punch list now that a dream playoff run has come to an end.

The NHL can be sticklers about these things but there’s no doubt that Kampfer would’ve met the required number of games had he not been injured and as for Savard... Let’s cut the guy a huge break here.

The NHL looked the other way when Matt Cooke essentially ruined his career last season and his unfortunate concussion in January derailed his ability to help be a part of the Bruins run this year. While the argument could be made by the league that Savard didn’t participate nearly enough to be considered a part of this year’s team, the motivation his comeback and follow-up injury had on his teammates to get the job done in the playoffs had a profound effect.

After all, whenever Savard was able to make an appearance at Bruins games at TD Garden during the playoffs he was featured on the big screen and the crowd would rise to their feet in approval while his teammates tapped their sticks for him on the ice. In Savard’s case, his being able to be around the team when he could was the only way he could help inspire the team. While the NHL won’t always buy into the feel good story, this is one situation where they should be OK with it.