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10 unusual facts about Boston Bruins


1933–34 NHL season

On December 12, 1933, near the end of the second period of a game between the Leafs and the Boston Bruins in the Boston Garden, Bailey was tripped from behind by Bruins defenceman Eddie Shore, in retaliation for a check that Toronto defenceman King Clancy had delivered to Shore.

1942–43 NHL season

With the suspension of the Americans, this was the inaugural season of the so-called Original Six era, with the NHL consisting of six teams (the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs).

Amherst Central High School

Jeremy Jacobs, owner of the Boston Bruins and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware North Companies; Forbes magazine ranked him #746 of the world's billionaires

Hockey Weekend Across America

Included in the same set of festivities were two other outdoor game, one involving college hockey teams and another an alumni game featuring former members of the Boston Bruins and Hartford Whalers, the namesakes of the two teams participating in the Whale Bowl.

McNicholas Quadruplets

Lindsay McNicholas is the wife of Adam Krug, Assistant Coach of the Indiana Ice, and her brother in law is Torey Krug who plays for the Boston Bruins.

Metcalfe, Ontario

Notable Jets alumni include Larry Robinson and two of his brothers, as well as Boston Bruins' Marc Savard.

Michael Holley

The show was renamed the Dale & Holley Show and features Holley and former Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer Dale Arnold who discuss the various Boston sports teams.

Phoenix Media/Communications Group

The sports and magazine division publishes the official yearbooks for the Boston Celtics, the Boston Bruins, and the Boston Marathon, in addition to program guides for the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, and the Bank of America Pavilion summer music series.

The Zambonis

The NHL has commissioned the group to compose theme songs for the Boston Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche.

TWC TV

TWC TV also acts as an overflow feed for MPBN during the aforementioned high school basketball tournament and for New England Sports Network when the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins are playing at the same time.


1946–47 Boston Celtics season

On an early June day in 1946, Brown, who operated the Boston Garden arena and was part of the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins, was the driving force behind the Basketball Association of America and the Celtics birth.

Albany Choppers

Among players for the Choppers were goaltenders Rick Knickle, former St. Louis Blue Bruce Racine and former Boston Bruin John Blue; former New York Islander and team captain Dale Henry, former Minnesota North Star Dave Richter, and Mario Lemieux's brother, center Alain Lemieux, who was the team's leading scorer until he was traded for cash.

Charlotte Grahame

Her husband Ron was part of the trade which eventually brought Ray Bourque to the Boston Bruins, with whom her son John would later become a teammate.

Chris Winnes

Recruited by a number of teams out of Northwood Prep School in Lake Placid, New York, Winnes was selected by the Boston Bruins in the 1987 Entry Draft (9th choice, 161st overall).

Don Koharski

Koharski is perhaps best known for an incident that occurred following Game 3 of the 1988 Prince of Wales Conference Finals between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils at Brendan Byrne Arena.

Flash Hollett

Frank William "Bill, Flash" Hollett (April 13, 1912 in North Sydney, Nova Scotia – April 20, 1999 in Mississauga, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings.

Fleming Mackell

After winning his 2nd Stanley Cup with the Leafs, Fleming David Mackell was traded by Toronto to the Boston Bruins in return for young Defenseman Jim Morrison.

Fragile Bird

The song was used for Hockey Night in Canada's intro for game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals between the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins.

Fred Cusick

Frederick Michael Cusick (November 7, 1918 - September 15, 2009) was an American ice hockey broadcaster who served as the Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer from 1971 until 1997 on WSBK-TV (Channel 38) in Boston, and from 1984 until 1995 on NESN.

Gord Kluzak

Gordon Glen Kluzak (born March 4, 1964 in Climax, Saskatchewan) is a retired NHL defenceman who played his entire abbreviated career for the Boston Bruins, and is now a broadcaster for the team.

Gord Pettinger

Gordon Robert "Gosh" Pettinger (b. November 11, 1911 in Harrogate, England, United Kingdom - d. April 12, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 8 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, and Boston Bruins.

Gregg Sheppard

Gregory Wayne Sheppard (born April 23, 1949 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a retired professional ice hockey forward who most notably played for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.

Hamiota, Manitoba

Hamiota is the birthplace of former Scottish rugby player Grahame Budge and Dallas Smith who played hockey with the Boston Bruins.

Henry Boucha

Boucha was enjoying a solid year in his home state when he was involved in a highly publicized stick incident with Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins in 1975 which left him with a cracked bone around his eye and blurred vision.

Joe Amorosino

Amorosino is an Emmy Award-winning sports reporter who has covered all three New England Patriots Super Bowl wins (2002, 2004, 2005) the Boston Red Sox World Series wins (2004, 2007), and the Boston Celtics NBA Championship win (2008) and the Boston Bruins most recent Stanley Cup Championship (2011).

Joe Lamb

Joseph Gordon Lamb (b. June 18, 1906 in Sussex, New Brunswick – d. August 21, 1982) was a professional ice hockey forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Maroons, Ottawa Senators, New York Americans, Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Eagles and Detroit Red Wings.

New Haven Nighthawks

Notable players for the Nighthawks include former New York Islanders great Bobby Nystrom; Willie O'Ree; Tom Colley, the franchise's career leader in games (534), goals (204), assists (281) and points (485); ex-Boston Bruin Billy O'Dwyer; career penalty minute leader (688) Al Tuer; ex-WHA star Bobby Sheehan, Bernie Nicholls, Blaine Stoughton and Mike Rogers.

Punch Imlach

After the 1956–57 season, Imlach moved to professional hockey, hired by the Boston Bruins as general manager of their Springfield Indians farm team.

Ray Bourque

Bourque is also an Olympian and has become near-synonymous with the Boston Bruins franchise, for which he played 21 seasons and became its longest-serving captain.

Sites of interest in Boston

TD Garden – home of the Boston Bruins and the Boston Celtics, formerly named the FleetCenter, this arena replaced the Boston Garden in 1995

Solomon Court at Cabot Center

The arena is built on the site of the old Huntington Avenue Grounds, where the first-ever World Series baseball game was held in 1903, and is barely over a quarter-mile (402 m) away to the southwest from the Matthews Arena, the original home of the NHL's Boston Bruins ice hockey team in 1924.

Ulf Samuelsson

In a game versus the Boston Bruins during the 1991 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Samuelsson hit Bruins' star forward Cam Neely with a legal bodycheck that injured Neely and caused him to develop a condition called myositis ossificans, which ultimately ended his career.

WEDG-TV

Outside of UPN programming, the lineup was filled with double runs and failed syndicated programming from WXXA, older films, and an assortment of sporting events including New York Yankees games (from WNYW, then WCBS) and Boston Bruins games from WSBK.

WJZB-TV

In the 1960s, it began airing Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics games (from WHDH-TV in Boston), and also aired classic movies, syndicated sports programs, travelogues and other standard independent fare.

Yan Stastny

Eight days later, he was traded by the Oilers back to the Boston Bruins along with Marty Reasoner and a 2006 second round pick (Milan Lucic) for Sergei Samsonov as part of an NHL trade deadline deal.