Boston Bruins

This Day in Hockey History – December 10, 1969 and 1970 – Losing Goalies

(Photo: The Vancouver Sun, as found on Newspapers.com) The night of December 10 was not a good one for two goalies playing...

This Day in Hockey History – December 8, 1987 – Hextall’s Goal to Goal

A goalie’s job is to stop pucks, not shoot them. Yet, on December 8, 1987, Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Ron Hextall became the...

This Day in Hockey History – December 7, 1967, 1968, 1975 – The Chief Scorer

Johnny Bucyk played for the Boston Bruins for 21 seasons (after playing two for the Detroit Red Wings before being traded in return...

This Day in Hockey History – December 5, 1939 – Bruins’ Shore Nevermore

A little over ten years after Eddie Shore set the record for most fights in one game, on December 5, 1939, the...

This Day in Hockey History – December 3, 1987 – Boston’s Lucky Number 7

(Photo: redsox20041027 , via Wikimedia Commons) On Thursday (November 29, 2018), the Boston Bruins continued a long tradition of retiring the numbers...

This Day in Hockey History – December 1, 1924 – Bruins Begin Brown and Montreal Makes Maroons

When the U.S. finally joined the NHL in 1924, the first American team came in holding hands with a second team from Montreal, Canada....

This Day in Hockey History – November 23, 1929 – Shore to Fight

One would think that with the record for the most fights in one game that Eddie Shore was cruisin’ for a bruisin’ when his...

This Day in Hockey History – November 20, 1928 – A Boston Garden of Fans

For their first four seasons, the Boston Bruins played at Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena, home of the Northeastern University Huskies). Then

This Day in Hockey History – November 14, 1971 – Cheevers Achieves

Gerry Cheevers’s claim to fame started with 30 stitches drawn on his facemask, but his greatest achievement was an unbeaten streak of 32...

This Day in Hockey History – November 13, 1955 – Goalies Squared Off

(Photo: The Boston Globe, as found on Newspapers.com) Two goalies, both alike in shutouts, in fair Boston, where we lay our scene, from...