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The person lives in the Valley and is asymptomatic, the release said. He is in isolation at home and people who have been in close contact with him have been notified. He is the only member of the organization who tested positive for the coronavirus during Phase 2 testing protocol. NHL training camps will open July 10 if the league and players’ union can reach an agreement to resume the season, the league announced Thursday. Setting this date gives the 17% of players who are overseas time to return in light of U.S. and Canada quarantine regulations. The league and NHLPA said the July 10 start of camps — referred to as Phase 3 — is pending medical and safety conditions and agreeing on getting back to games. Thursday also marked the first day Coyotes players were back on the ice at Gila River Arena for voluntary, small-group training sessions. Players were given the choice whether to participate. On Saturday, the Arizona health department reported 39 new coronavirus deaths and 1,540 additional cases. That increased the state’s documented totals to 34,458 cases and 1,183 deaths. Arizona Sports LOADED: 06.15.2020 1186363 Boston Bruins Fights broke out on the ice, with fans leaning out over the low glass and punching Leaf combatant Forbes Kennedy. If the same play happened today with the knowledge of brain injuries, Quinn would have been Bad Guys: Top villains in Bruins’ history suspended for multiple games and Orr would have been put in protocol. But both were in the lineup for the next game. Alex Burrows: Bruins fans should thank Burrows every time they see him By STEVE CONROY because his actions, along with a few other Canucks’ liberties, helped give the 2011 B’s the resolve to shake off a 2-0 Final series deficit and PUBLISHED: June 14, 2020 at 5:27 a.m win the club’s first Cup in 39 years. In Game 1 of what would become UPDATED: June 14, 2020 at 3:48 p.m. one of the most bitter series of the decade, Patrice Bergeron, just growing into his own as an inspirational leader, got in a post-whistle scrum with Burrows. As the linesmen tried to separate them, Burrows chomped down on Bergeron’s fingers. The next day, a seemingly Spectator sports are like any drama. There are plots and subplots, bemused Bergeron showed off the still visible bite marks on his finger to heroes and goats. a couple reporters. But it would soon become clear how much that And there are, of course, villains. Sports were reality television before chomp angered the B’s. During Bruins’ rout in Game 3, Milan Lucic and there was such a thing. Mark Recchi took off their gloves and mockingly stuck their fingers in Burrows face, daring him to take a taste. And late in Game 4, another big Perhaps no sport captures the concept of the villain quite like hockey. win for the B’s, goalie Tim Thomas took a healthy slash at Burrows in The Bruins have had their share of players who opposing fandoms have front of the net and the two briefly swung at each other before Dennis loved to hate, from Eddie Shore to Derek Sanderson to Brad Marchand. Seidenberg gabbed Burrows from behind. The series was now 2-2 and But there also have been plenty players of whom Bruins’ fans could not the Burrows bite had clearly fortified an already tight-knit Bruins team. stand the sight. Some of these ne’er-do-wells’ transgressions were all in The B’s, of course, won the series in seven, but the bad blood even the sometimes filthy game, others bordered on the criminal. spilled over into the next season when the B’s-Canucks played one of the more acidic regular season games in memory. The Canucks won that Here’s a list of the worst villains for the Bruins’ over the years — the game, but it had to be cold comfort for them after the B’s lifted the Cup in Hateful Eight if you will: Vancouver the previous June. Ulf Samuelsson: The Swedish defenseman, first as a member as the Maurice “Rocket” Richard: By 1955, it would have been understandable if Whalers and later with the Penguins, had a well-earned reputation of Bruins fans muttered and cursed at the mere mention of the great playing rough – sometimes dirty – in front of his own net. He had plenty Montreal Hall of Famer. He was not only an iconic talent who set the of fighting majors in his career, though he usually just held on for dear standard for goal-scoring – his name today adorns the trophy given to the life. But “Ulfie” earned his place at the top of the list in a 1991 playoff player who scores the most goal in a season – but he was also a fierce series when he changed the course of Bruins history. Cam Neely was competitor who perhaps more than any Hab played with his French- only 26 years old and had led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Final in two Canadian pride on his sleeve. And in the decade leading up to this point, of three previous seasons when, in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference the Habs had ousted the Bruins five times, just the start of a Boston Final, Samuelsson delivered a filthy leg-on-leg check on Neely that sent drought against Montreal that lasted 45 years. But in a game on March his career into a tailspin. Another hit in Game 6 added to the knee and 13 of ’55 at the Garden, things got ugly. After getting cut by a high-stick thigh problems that would dog the prototypical power forward for the rest by the B’s Hal Laycoe, Richard went ballistic on Laycoe, swing his stick of his Hall of Fame career. Neely played just nine games the following wildly until ultimately breaking it over the Bruin. Linesman Cliff Thompson season and never again played more than 49 games in a season. From tried to stop the assault, but Richard slugged him and went after Laycoe 1988-91, Neely played in 73 playoff games but after the hits he played again before he was finally subdued and sent to the dressing room. The just nine more post-season games. He retired at the age of 31, the same parties were called in for a hearing three days later and commissioner age Bobby Orr had to hang up his skates.