Unfortunately, some inclement weather kept Marc Savard from getting to Boston on Thursday. The injured Bruins forward had planned on being in town for the first night of his new initiative. Savard has bought out a TD Garden suite for the rest of the year, and each night, that suite will house a Children's Hospital patient and their family. And the child will likely be one suffering an injury from head trauma, something Savard is familiar with as his career may be over thanks to lingering concussion problems. When he couldn't attend on Thursday, though, he got an assist from...
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