On Dec. The Bruins moved from the Boston Garden to the TD Garden, going from a facility with 14, official seats to one with room for 17, The Bruins played at the Boston Arena capacity 5, from The Bruins and their fans suffered Stanley Cup Final losses 12 times: to Ottawa in ; to Montreal in , , , , , , and ; to Detroit in ; to Philadelphia in ; and to Edmonton in and He wore the No. Bucyk scored goals and had assists from to , including 51 goals during the season.
He ended his NHL career with regular season tallies. Jones was given a boarding call and a game misconduct and was later suspended. Billy Coutu of the Bruins was suspended for life. After losing a game in the Stanley Cup playoffs, he brutally assaulted a referee. Bourque made the change on Dec. Esposito, a prolific goal scorer for the Bruins between and , had his No.
Mike Knuble scored two goals 27 seconds into a game vs. Phil Esposito potted 55 goals. Tom Johnson, a Hall-of-Fame defenseman for Montreal, took over as coach of the Bruins during the season and led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup title in the campaign. Harry Sinden coached the Bruins to the Stanley Cup.
Carol Vadnais led Bruins with penalty minutes. Wayne Cashman had penalty minutes, and Dallas Smith had Filed under:. By Dan. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. If nothing else, it should be interesting to watch. Loading comments Louis Blues. Louis Blue. After all, the guy was captain of the Bruins for 14 seasons. It will be interesting to see what role he plays on the Isles as well. Some analysts have mentioned that he may be paired up with young Noah Dobson, in hopes that Chara can mentor him as he did with Brandon Carlo and Charlie McAvoy.
Kaprizov had a lot of hype coming to the NHL as a 23 year old from the KHL, and to say he lived up to the hype would be an understatement. What type of game will the team try to play game in and game out? The s saw the Bruins compile five first-place divisional finishes with many individual honors accrued.
Tiny Thompson won the Vezina Trophy as the league's premier goaltender on four occasions. Eddie Shore captured the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player in four seasons as well. They had tied the game with two goals in the last five minutes of a game against Chicago. Eddie Shore scored the second goal with one arena clock on the mark and the other clock past it.
Chicago coach Tommy Gorman protested, but the goal stood. Marty Barry then scored another disputed goal in overtime. Gorman pulled his team off the ice and the Bruins were awarded the forfeited game.
The late s brought several players to the Bruins that seemed to ensure their success for years to come. In , Ross had taken a chance on the acquisition of Bobby Bauer when many 'experts' in hockey maintained that he was too small. Frank Brimsek had led all goaltenders in the International-American League in with a 1. Born in Eveleth, Minnesota, Brimsek had one of the hardest jobs in hockey - succeeding Tiny Thompson in the Boston net.
Thompson had originally suggested to Art Ross the use of a 'backup' goalie, not only to prolong his own career by giving him an occasional rest, but also to give his eventual replacement some experience. Brimsek played the first two games of the season when Thompson was injured, winning both.
Zero" en route to capturing both the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie and the Vezina as the NHL's premier goaltender. In all, the first 15 years of the Bruins' existence in the NHL were glorious ones. They had eight first-place finishes in the league or their division, reached the Stanley Cup Final four times and twice won the coveted Trophy. An amazing 17 people associated with the franchise during that time span were eventually elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The next stretch of the Bruins history to date - from - began on an upbeat note with consecutive first place finishes and one Stanley Cup and ended with an optimistic outlook with the coming of age of Bobby Orr. In between, however, Bruins fans were treated to a roller-coaster ride of inconsistency as the team did not qualify for the playoffs in 11 of those 30 seasons, including an eight-year stretch between and The '30s closed out with the Kraut Line keeping up their pace.
Schmidt, whom Art Ross called 'the greatest of modern centers', led the league in scoring and for the first time in league history, three players not only from the same team, but the same line, finished the season in the top three spots of the individual scoring race.
The season also closed a bright chapter in Bruins history as Eddie Shore ended his career with the team after 14 seasons, seven First Team All-Star berths and four Hart Trophies.
The s began with great promise as Bill Cowley and Roy Conacher emerged as scoring stars and the team enjoyed a record-breaking game unbeaten streak with 15 wins and eight ties in They cruised to their third Stanley Cup championship and second in three years over Detroit with the first four-game sweep in Stanley Cup Final history. Although the Bruins made it to the Cup finals in , the remaining part of the decade was unrewarding with Dit Clapper's retirement on February 12, after becoming the first player to play 20 seasons in the league and Bauer retiring as well at the end of the season.
The s saw three Stanley Cup Final appearances, but Boston finished as high as second in the regular season just once Milt Schmidt retired in December, , assuming the coaching reins from Lynn Patrick, but the team continued its decline in the early '60s, with their eight-year drought of playoff appearances from the longest such stretch in Bruins history.
In , however, three events occurred which made the Bruins' record a little easier to bear. The second event was the promotion of Harry Sinden to coach of the team after serving as coach for Boston's minor league affiliates since Esposito and Hodge gave the Bruins much-needed offensive depth and, combined with the unparalleled two-way play of Orr and the shrewd and intelligent Sinden behind the bench, the Bruins were on the way to becoming the power team of the early s.
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