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By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
Happy 69th birthday to former Bruin Stan Jonathan. The diminutive but unflinching left-wing of the ‘Lunch Pail Era’ Bruins played 392 regular season games for Boston.
Bruins’ head coach Don Cherry had seen Stan Jonathan play for the Peterborough Petes during the 1974-75 season and asked GM Harry Sinden to draft him. It took him … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
In the summer of 1976, while the city of Boston was celebrating the country’s bicentennial, the Bruins were looking to bolster their NHL lineup. They thought they might have found their man—Ewan ‘The Elk’ Cartwright—who they invited to camp as a ‘walk-on’. The rest of the story is a relatively obscure … Keep Reading
By: Liz Rizzo | Follow me on Twitter @pastagrl88
The Boston Bruins have a long and storied history as being the third-oldest active team in the NHL and the oldest in the United States. Since their formation in 1924, the franchise has had 29 head coaches. While many weren’t always lucky, there are few that enjoyed tremendous success and were even privileged … Keep Reading
By: Gayle Troiani | Follow me on Twitter @LadyBruinsFan
Being an Original Six franchise in the Nation Hockey League means plenty of history to sift through when picking the best of the best. Having already compiled the lists of best defensemen, goalies, and right and left wings, the next “best of” series brought me to bench bosses.
This topic was a bit harder … Keep Reading
By: Evan Michael | Follow me on Twitter @00EvanMichael
On this day in Bruins history, July 5th, 1979, the fiery Don Cherry’s firing got a post fireworks replacement in Fred Creighton as the new B’s bench boss. But the story that Summer, and many subsequent Summers, was always about the foul-mouthed father of the Big, Bad Bruins of the ’70s.
For … Keep Reading
By: Evan Michael | Follow me on Twitter @00EvanMichael
“You’re crazy man, you’re crazy. I like you… but you’re crazy.”
If anyone, in my lifetime, would have told me the Boston Bruins could play the Montreal Canadiens (or the Toronto Maple Leafs for that matter) for the Stanley Cup, I would’ve responded with the above sentiment about sanity.
That’s not how modern hockey works. That’s not how teams … Keep Reading
By: Evan Michael | Follow me on Twitter @00EvanMichael
There’s no masking it for the Boston Bruins.
Not now during the pandemic of 2020. Not then during the pandemonium of 2019 (pictured above). And not way-back-when, panning back to the mid 70’s, late 80’s, early 90’s and forgettable “00” oughts (when the team was often panned).
When it comes to playoff … Keep Reading
By: Max Mainville | Check me out on Twitter @tkdmaxbjj
Boston Bruins Head Coach Bruce Cassidy has officially been named the winner of the 2020 Jack Adams Award, the trophy given to the best head coach during the 2019-20 regular season.
Cassidy became the bench boss of the … Keep Reading
By: Joe Chrzanowski| Follow me on Twitter @jchrz19
This is a topic that has been weighing heavily on me for the last year or so. With the Trade Deadline behind us and Danton Heinen off to Anaheim, perhaps it’s a moot point? However, the question remains, what was it about Danton Heinen that was such a turn-off for so many B’s fans?
If you spend any amount of time on … Keep Reading
By: Mark Allred | Follow Me On Twitter @BlackAndGold277
The Bruins organization lost a member of its family today with the announcement of the passing of 89-year-old Bronco Horvath from the official Boston Bruins Alumni Twitter Account. Horvath a longtime journeyman of the North American professional ranks spent 664 games posting 263-484-747 numbers in the American Hockey League and 434 games in the higher National Hockey League contributing 141-185-326 totals. … Keep Reading
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