One. More. Win.

And the Bruins are back in the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1990. Five months before I was born. Countless players have donned the black and gold in between, yet none of them have been able to bring Lord Stanley back to Boston for the first time since 1972.

On this current roster, only four players have appeared in a Cup finals before: Mark Recchi, Shawn Thornton, Chris Kelly, and Andrew Ference, with Rex and Thornton being the only Cup winners. And since Thornton is likely to be a healthy scratch, coupled with Recchi's advanced age, there is virtually no Stanley Cup experience coming from the core of this roster. Zdeno Chara and Tim Thomas both have some individual hardware to fall back on, with Norris and Vezina trophies alike, but neither have ever been to the promised land. Heck prior to this season, neither of them had even been to a conference final.

And for the young guns on this squad, such as Bergeron, Lucic, Krejci, the only thing they're used to in the Stanley Cup Playoffs is heartbreak. All three have been with the team since this nucleus began contending in 2007-2008, and each successive season has ended in a Game 7 defeat, each one more frustrating than the last. Bergeron even goes back to before the lockout, when the Bruins blew a 3-1 series lead in the quarterfinals against--who else--Montreal.

Nathan Horton, who's arguably been the teams best player in these playoffs thus far, had never played a single playoff game before this year.

If there's anything the Bruins have taught us over the past several years, it's that nothing is ever set in stone. How else could they have become just the third team in NHL history to blow a 3-0 series lead? But tonight, down in Tampa Bay, the Bruins are on the brink of triumph. History will be made.