As everyone in this area knows, Boston’s professional sports teams have enjoyed unprecedented success since the numeral “2” became the first digit on the calendar.Since the dawn of the new millennium, the Patriots have won three Super Bowls, appeared in another, and played in five AFC championship games; the Red Sox have won two World Series and appeared in two other American League championship series; and the Celtics have won one NBA title and been in the finals one other time.Until this year, the Bruins have been on the outside looking in, and often in a most frustrated way. Two years ago, after ending the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference, they lost in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs to the Carolina Hurricanes. Last year, after going up 3-0 against the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern semis, the Bruins allowed the Flyers to win four straight.This year, the Bruins are at least at the party. Tonight, they’ll find out whether they’ll be honored guests. They get the chance to win their first Stanley Cup in 39 years when they play the Vancouver Canucks, on the road, at Rogers Arena ? a place where goals, and wins, have been impossible to come by in this series.Mark Recchi, for one, understands the significance.”(The year) 1972 was the last time this town got to see a Stanley Cup,” he said after Monday’s Game 6 win. “(This is) a great sports town ? and great hockey town ? and it would be remarkable.”There has been a lot of success with the other sports teams, and the Bruins included, but it’s been a long time. We hope to do that.”Recchi and goalie Tim Thomas have emerged as the designated spokesman for the team. They’re the elder statesmen, and the ones at all the post-game news conferences. Recchi has the perspective of a veteran who’s been this way (twice, once with Montreal and again with Carolina), and Thomas has been the team’s backbone since the playoffs started.And both feel that the only way to complete the job is to thoroughly embrace the moment – the way Curt Schilling (who was on the jumbotron at the TD Garden Monday night talking about Boston’s recent sports successes) and the Red Sox did in 2004.”I’m going to try to embrace this opportunity and take the same attitude I’ve taken throughout the whole playoffs,” he said. “And you know, hopefully that will get me through that one last game ? to get to the goal that we’ve been shooting for all year long.”Recchi has said he’ll retire if the Bruins win the cup. But he’s not thinking of that now.”This (Game 7) is what we dream of,” he said. “There is no pressure. Go play. Go out and have fun with this. It’s what you play for, and what we’ve worked hard for all year long. We’re going to have a blast doing it. That will be the message (going into tonight’s game).”Recchi doesn’t think the Bruins will have any trouble mustering up the energy they’ve often lacked playing on the road in Vancouver.”We can do it,” he said. “We know we’re capable of doing it. It’s one game. I can’t imagine us not doing it and laying it on the line and doing things that are going to help us try and be successful.”