{"id":560139,"date":"2026-03-24T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:41:08","slug":"bruins-welcome-rhode-island-high-school-champs-still-moving-forward-from-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560139\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins welcome Rhode Island high school champs still ‘moving forward’ from shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON — The Boston Bruins dressing room was packed on Monday, the crush more like the Stanley Cup Playoffs than a weekday practice in the second-to-last month of the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t the usual crowd.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Bruins had invited the Rhode Island Division II State Champion hockey team, the Blackstone Valley Co-op team, to Warrior Ice Arena, giving them a chance to get on the ice with the NHL club, tour the behind-the-scenes of their facilities — even meeting with David Pastrnak<\/a>\u00a0in the training room — and interact with players they’ve only seen on TV.<\/p>\n

They had won the high school state championship on Wednesday, tying the game late in regulation and winning in quadruple overtime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tying goal came from\u00a0Colin\u00a0Dorgan with about 30 seconds left in regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just one month earlier, Colin’s mother, Rhonda Dorgan, brother, Aidan Dorgan, and grandfather, Gerald Dorgan, were killed in a shooting in the stands at the team’s Senior Day game at Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Feb. 16 in Providence. Colin’s father, Robert Dorgan, was identified by police as the shooter. He also was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing how the community can rally for us, all the gifts we’ve gotten, it’s so special,” team co-captain Camden Governo said Monday. “We’re so grateful for everything we’ve gotten. There’s nothing better than the community we have. We’re still moving forward. We’re still recovering. But we’re definitely doing good after that championship win.”<\/p>\n

As Governo spoke, the team gathered behind him, they cheered his sentiments.<\/p>\n

“These are all my brothers,” Governo said. “I love all these guys.”<\/p>\n

On the jerseys the team wore on Wednesday, there was a red heart patch with the initials of the family members who were killed, RD, AD, and GD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON — The Boston Bruins dressing room was packed on Monday, the crush more like the Stanley Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-560139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}