“He went into the closet to get something one day and there were a bunch of hats on a shelf of different colors. He said, ‘that’s kind of pretty — it would be fun to collect some of them ...

“We’ve gotten asked so many times: ‘Hey, what do you do with those hats?’ Yeah, we collect them,” Bruins head athletic trainer Dustin Stuck noted. As seemingly on-brand as it would be ...