A seven-time All-Star, he also won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player four times. Although suffering from frostbite, he scored the game's only goal in a Bruins victory.īut it was Shore's amazing on-ice skill and talent that eventually put him into the Hall of Fame. He once missed a team train to Montreal in 1929 and drove straight through from Boston in a blinding blizzard to arrive in Montreal at 6:30 the night of the game. The stories surrounding Shore are legendary. Also renowned as one of the toughest players to ever play the game, Shore developed into the top box office attraction of his day. He was the first defenseman to take the puck from behind his own net and rush electrifyingly up ice to score. Charles Adams bought the Western Canada Hockey League, bringing an influx of new talent to the Bruins, including the inimitable Eddie Shore, an Edmonton farm boy who was the become the stalwart of the team for many years to come. The horizons brightened considerably during the 1926-27 season. It was to be the high point in a truly dismal season which saw the home team win only six of 30 games, three each at home and on the road. On December 1, 1924, the Boston Bruins played their first National Hockey League game, defeating the Montreal Maroons at the Boston Arena by a 2-1 score, with Fred Harris and Carson Cooper scoring the Boston goals. He also developed the fiber guard for the back of skates which protects the vulnerable Achilles tendon from injury.
A strong and innovative hockey man, he invented the beveled-edge pucks, as well as mesh nets that allowed the pucks to stay in rather than bounce back onto the playing surface. Ross, a native of Naughton, Ontario, was managing a sporting goods store in Montreal when hired by Adams to run the franchise. He received dozens of entries, none of which were to his satisfaction until his secretary came upon the idea of "Bruins".Īdams, who remained president of the club until 1936, when he turned the reins over to his son Weston, made perhaps his smartest move in naming Art Ross to the positions of General Manager and coach. The name of the team would preferably relate to an untamed animal embodied with size, strength, agility, ferocity and cunning, while also in the color brown category. One was that the basic colors of the team be brown with yellow trim, the color scheme of his Brookside stores. On that day, Charles Francis Adams paid the NHL a rumored $15,000 and received in return a piece of paper entitling him to the first United States entry into the league.Īdams, a grocery chain tycoon from Vermont, held a contest to name his NHL club, laying down several ground rules. Game 5: Golden Knights 4, Jets 1 Edmonton Oilers vs.Novemwas a red letter day for both the city of Boston and the National Hockey League. Game 6: Stars 4, Wild 1 Vegas Golden Knights vs. Game 7: Kraken 2, Avalanche 1 Dallas Stars vs. Game 7: Devils 4, Rangers 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Colorado Avalanche vs. Game 6: Hurricanes 2, Islanders 1 (OT) New Jersey Devils vs. Game 6: Maple Leafs 2, Lightning 1 (OT) Carolina Hurricanes vs. Game 7: Panthers 4, Bruins 3 (OT) Toronto Maple Leafs vs.
SPORTS NEWSLETTER: Sign up now for daily updates sent to your inboxĪll times Eastern, * denotes games played as necessary EASTERN CONFERENCE Boston Bruins vs. The NHL has released the schedule for the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Their first opponent is the Florida Panthers, who had won the Presidents' Trophy last season and needed a late-season surge to get back to the playoffs. The big number now is 16, the number of victories needed to capture the Stanley Cup, which the Bruins last did in 2011. The Boston Bruins' record-setting 65 wins and 135 regular-season points have rolled back to zero.
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