"It might feel like the good Ol' Boston days for Dennis Wideman this weekend, on a team captained by defenseman Zdeno Chara and coached by Claude Julien and his staff. If only Wideman's time with the Bruins didn't end on such a sour note.

Wideman spent parts of four seasons in Boston that he enjoyed, despite things going downhill late in the 2009-10 campaign before he was traded to the Florida Panthers.

"The other things in Boston didn't end great. I had a bad year or a couple bad months there. But that's part of the game; that's what we're doing," Wideman said Friday. "Boston fans, they're intense and they expect you to play a certain way. I wasn't at the time, and they let me know about it. That's what makes Boston great."

Wideman went from a star paired with Chara in 2008-09 to a minus-14 guy the next season. He might just get a chance to play alongside the big Bruins' captain again Sunday to rekindle some past glory in the NHL All-Star Game."