Are the Boston Bruins still in the running for the Stanley Cup playoffs?
In their third season, 1926–27, the team markedly improved. Ross took advantage of the collapse of the Western Hockey League to purchase several western stars, including the team’s first great star, a defenseman from Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan named Eddie Shore. The Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Final despite finishing only one game above .500, but lost to the Ottawa Senators. In 1929 the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers to win their first Stanley Cup. Standout players on the first championship team included Shore, Harry Oliver, Dit Clapper, Dutch Gainor and goaltender Tiny Thompson. The 1928–29 season was the first played at Boston Garden, which Adams had built after guaranteeing his backers $500,000 in gate receipts over the next five years. The season after that, 1929–30, the Bruins posted the best-ever regular season winning percentage in the NHL (an astonishing .875, winning 38 out of 44 games, a record which still stands), but would lose to the Montreal Canadiens in the F
Wait’ll next year http://bruins.nhl.com/ The Boston Bruins had plenty of reasons to believe they could win their first Stanley Cup in 37 years. They allowed the fewest goals in the NHL and scored the most in the Eastern Conference. They posted their most wins since that championship season with two of the best players at their positions, goalie Tim Thomas and towering defenceman Zdeno Chara. They tossed aside the Montreal Canadiens in a first-round playoff sweep. Boston was on a roll until the Carolina Hurricanes arrived into town. The Bruins split the first two games at home then lost the next two on the road. They rallied to force a seventh game where momentum and fans were on their side. The final goal wasn’t. “It’s just a sad way to end it,” Chara said after Carolina eliminated the Bruins 3-2 on 14-year veteran Scott Walker’s first career playoff goal at 18:46 of overtime Thursday night. “We had different goals and much higher goa
