B’s couple’s gift is win-win

With tickets to Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final fetching hundreds of dollars, we expected to see a lot of beautiful people beating their chests at the Garden last night. But hockey lacks the celebrity sizzle of some of the other major sports, so it was the rank-and-file rowdies who made most of the noise (and uttered a few vulgarities). That’s not to say there were no familiar faces in the crowd. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (inset) used his considerable connections to score tickets to last night’s clash with the ’Nucks. (Harper was trailed by a phalanx of security types who at one point commandeered an elevator to the bewilderment of a group of Bruins fans, who doubtless had no idea who the head of state in Canada is.) Also getting seats were No. 4 Bobby Orr, former Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, Canadian actress Rachel McAdams, who made an enthusiastic appearance on the Jumbotron, “CSI’’ actor Paul Guilfoyle, ESPN wiseguy Bill Simmons, Celts co-owner Steve Pagliuca, Liberty Hotel owner Dick Friedman, Eastern Standard owner Garrett Harker, Strega’s Nick Varano, Pats players Stephen Gostkowksi, Brian Hoyer, and Tully Banta-Cain, and former Bruins brawler Terry O’Reilly. But it wasn’t all about the boldfacers last night. Before the game, former B’s center Bob Sweeney met up with Joyce Eby, the Braintree mom and season ticket holder who won $10,000 in a Bruins-sponsored raffle during Game 3. Instead of buying an HD screen with her newfound wealth, Eby donated the cash — all of it — to the Red Cross (through the Boston Bruins Foundation) to help victims of last week’s tornado in Springfield. “We’re hoping this might lead other people to do something. These people are our neighbors,’’ she said. And she predicted a big win for the Bruins. “We’re going to spank those Canucks right back to Vancouver,’’ said Eby.