Thornton: A Boston Cup parade ain't nothing like Anaheim

From ESPNBoston.com site (linked here), in preparation for today's Stanley Cup victory parade for the Bruins:

BOSTON -- It has been a whirlwind two days for the Bruins since they hoisted the Stanley Cup in Vancouver. They're tired and weary, but ready to party with the city of Boston with their duck boat victory parade Saturday morning.

"I'm a little blurry, I won't lie to you," joked veteran winger Shawn Thornton, who also won a Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007. "It's going to be awesome. I'm so excited. All my friends are in town and even people I thought didn't really give a damn, they're going to be here. So it's going to be awesome."

Thornton said he thought this parade would be more of a draw than the one he participated in with the Ducks in Anaheim.

"This is going to be a little bit bigger, yeah," Thornton said with a laugh. "Not to take anything away from the people of Anaheim, they were awesome, too. We had 25,000 to 30,000 people in the parking lot, but I'm assuming this will be a step up.

"We had the Cup out the other day at Tia's and Stella's and a couple of other places but compared to Anaheim ... we had it on the beach in Newport and there was like 20 people looking at it and they thought it was a rec league trophy, nobody knew the difference. But having helicopters over the top of Tia's was a little bit different."