TD Garden was back to nearly full capacity Saturday night for Game 1 of the Bruins' second-round series against the Islanders, with the only seats blocked off being those directly behind and next to the team benches and penalty boxes.
The ovation when the Bruins hit the ice for warmups was loud; the one when they returned to the ice for the start of the game was downright crazy.
And before that, the first ovation with the building actually full came for the game's honorary fan banner captain, AJ Quetta. Quetta suffered a serious spinal cord injury during a Bishop Feehan hockey game on Jan. 26 and is now back in the area after spending time at Shepherd Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta.
The local community, and especially the hockey community in general and the Bruins specifically, rallied around Quetta, with a GoFundMe page set up by his family raising more than $1 million.
Check out the scenes from pregame below: