Not many hockey fans can match the drive of Darren Preece, who's cheered for the Boston Bruins since he was a kid, perched on his dad's knee in front of the family television. "Our company is named after the team," says the president of Bruin Instruments Corp. With a staff of about two dozen, Bruin itself is no larger than a hockey team. Despite its peewee size, though, the chemical injection pump manufacturer is moving aggressively to sell its equipment across the United States and around the world.

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