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By: Camryn Meece | Follow me on Twitter / X @MeeceCamryn
The Boston Bruins have one of the most recognizable logos in NHL history, and for the past eight decades, the famous Spoked-B has remained the team’s defining symbol.
Across professional sports, franchises often reinvent themselves. New ownership groups, generational shifts in players, updated uniforms, and redesigned logos are all part of an effort to attract … Keep Reading
By: Camryn Meece | Follow me on Twitter / X @MeeceCamryn
For decades, National Hockey League goaltenders played without masks. The position was built on visibility and toughness, with an unspoken expectation that stopping pucks meant doing so barefaced.
That began to change in 1959, when Jacques Plante became the first NHL goaltender to regularly wear a mask after returning to a game following a facial … Keep Reading
By: Andrew Patten | Follow me on Twitter/X @a_patten11
When looking at the Hockey Hall of Fame’s goaltending standards, there is a strange, persistent bottleneck. Elite modern netminders are routinely forced to wait at the gates, scrutinized under moving goalposts that their skating peers rarely face. But if the Hall of Fame is truly meant to honor individual excellence and sustained … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
Former Bruin star Jean Ratelle is celebrating his 84th birthday today. The hall-of-fame center played for the Bruins from 1975 through 1981 and also served the organization as an assistant coach and a scout after his playing career ended.
Ratelle served fifteen seasons with the New York Rangers before becoming involved in one of the … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
Sometimes the NHL draft can be hit or miss enterprise. Despite all of the personnel scouting and calibrating of player potential and organizational needs, no team is immune from a complete miscarriage of an entire draft year, where none of the selections ever see more than a cup of coffee in the NHL.
Draft … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
Today would have been Garnet ‘Ace’ Bailey’s 76th birthday. The former Boston Bruin left-wing died while aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The plane had been hijacked by Islamist terrorists and purposefully driven into the building. He was 53 years old … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
May 4th (1972): The Bruins lost Game Three to the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup finals, but Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr made NHL history when he scored at 1:10 of the second frame. The 24-year-old defenseman scored his seventeenth career playoff goal in only his 47th game, breaking the record for … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X at stmcclure1993
It’s officially springtime! The Boston Bruins’ 2023-24 regular season has come to a close, and with their second-place Atlantic division finish, Boston will be matched with the third-place Toronto Maple Leafs in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. So, with the NHL postseason ready to consume our attention, let’s take … Keep Reading
By: Steve McClure | Follow me on Twitter / X @stmcclure1993
There is no doubt a correlation between the elite type of playoff performance a goaltender must demonstrate for his team in the NHL playoffs and the actual hoisting of the Stanley Cup. Few goalies in modern times can afford to play below regular season form over the grueling long haul that today’s playoffs demand. … 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
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