He played one game with the Boston Bruins, and later coached them for 5 seasons, starting with Bobby Orr's final 93 games as a Bruin.

WBZ's sports commitment also included the return of the Boston Bruins Radio Network to the station in 1995 ; however, the station lost the New England Patriots to WBCN ( 104. 1 FM, now occupied by WBMX ) starting with the 1995 season, and for several seasons afterward WBZ was an affiliate of the New York Giants Radio Network.

Billy Coutu was the first, and to date only, player banned from the NHL for life for violence in 1927 ; he assaulted referee Jerry Laflamme and tackled referee Billy Bell before starting a bench-clearing brawl during a Stanley Cup game between the Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators, apparently on the orders of Bruins coach Art Ross.

Patrick signed Sinden as player-assistant coach for the Kingston Frontenacs, the Bruins ' EPHL affiliate, starting in 1960 – 61.

Sather played three seasons starting in 1964 with the CPHL Memphis Wings and Oklahoma City Blazers, joining the Bruins at the end of the 1966 – 67 season and playing in 5 games.

As a starting point guard, Bibby and the UCLA Bruins won three straight NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships ( 1970 – 1972 ) under head coach John Wooden.

This newscast generally trailed both WLVI and, starting in 1996, an in-house newscast on WFXT ; on October 4, 1998, WSBK discontinued UPN 38 Prime News in order to refocus the station on sports and entertainment, though NECN continued to produce news updates within Bruins telecasts during the 1998-1999 season.

The Bruins would go on to lose to Arizona and Arizona State by a combined score of 58 – 47, but surprisingly shut out an Oregon Ducks team that a week earlier lost starting quarterback and Heisman Trophy Candidate Dennis Dixon to a knee injury.

He finally emerged as the Bruins ' starting goaltender at age 32.

However, as Boston suffered injuries to their two goalies Andrew Raycroft and Hannu Toivonen, Thomas earned his first call-up to the NHL in three years and took over as the Bruins starting goalie, completing the 2005 – 06 season with a 12 – 13 – 7 record, 2. 77 goals against average ( GAA ),. 917 save percentage and his first NHL shutout.

However, as Toivonen struggled, Thomas was again promoted as the Bruins ' starting goaltender, eventually posting a 30 – 29 – 4 record with a. 904 save percentage.

However, as Fernandez went down to injury early in the season, Thomas seized the opportunity and once again emerged as the Bruins ' starting goalie.

He enrolled at UCLA in 1972 and was a starting midfielder for the UCLA Bruins from 1972 to 1975.

Prior to the declaration of the 2012-2013 season lockout, he was named as the starting goalie for the Bruins, replacing Tim Thomas.

Despite Lemelin initially starting in net during the 1989 – 90 playoffs, when the Bruins were on a streak to win the Presidents Trophy, Moog would gain the starting position.

Richard, although somewhat dazed, jumped off the bench and drove to the net to score past a surprised Sugar Jim Henry, the Boston Bruins ' goaltender.

In 2011 Thomas won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins, and he also won the Conn Smythe Trophy ( Stanley Cup playoffs MVP ) in 2011 and the Vezina Trophy ( best goaltender in the NHL ) in 2009, and 2011.

* Charles Stewart ( ice hockey ) ( born 1895 ), National Hockey League goaltender for the Boston Bruins, 1924 – 1927

The team began auspiciously, signing former Detroit Red Wing star Tom Webster, hard rock Boston Bruins ' defenseman Ted Green ( the team's inaugural captain ), Toronto Maple Leafs ' defensemen Rick Ley, Jim Dorey and Brad Selwood, and former Pittsburgh Penguins ' goaltender Al Smith.

Terrance Gordon Sawchuk ( December 28, 1929 – May 31, 1970 ) was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.

The Red Wings traded Sawchuk to the Boston Bruins in June 1955 because they had a capable younger goaltender in the minor leagues ( Glenn Hall ), which devastated the self-critical goalie.

Former Boston Bruins goaltender George Abbott was born in Sydenham on August 3, 1911.

As an amateur, St. Louis played for the University of Vermont Catamounts on the same team as Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas, and on the same line as former Tampa Bay Lightning teammate Éric Perrin.

Making his NHL debut on October 7, 1995, he scored a wrap around goal against goaltender Blaine Lacher in a 4 – 4 tie with the Boston Bruins.

After a stellar junior career with Sorel and Verdun of the QMJHL, in which he was named the league's best defenseman in 1978 and 1979, Bourque was drafted 8th overall by the Bruins, with a first-round draft choice obtained from the Los Angeles Kings in a 1977 trade for goaltender Ron Grahame, whose son John would be a future teammate of Bourque's.

Bernard Marcel " Bernie " Parent ( born April 3, 1945 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League ( NHL ) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) with the Philadelphia Blazers.

He scored his first career NHL playoff goal in Game 2 of the first round against Boston Bruins goaltender Craig Billington.

As of 2012, Hejduk and goaltender Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins are the only players drafted by the Quebec Nordiques still active in the NHL.

Marty Archibald Turco ( born August 13, 1975 ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, playing most recently for the Boston Bruins.

The last departure occurred just one day before regular season play started, when goaltender Tim Thomas signed with the Boston Bruins.

He served as the Bruins ' backup goaltender during the 1980-81 regular season but again failed to make an impression and he did not participate in the 1981 NHL Playoffs.

Lemaire is the uncle of former Stars, Wild, and Bruins goaltender Manny Fernandez.

Perrin played college hockey at the University of Vermont, where he played with future Tampa Bay Lightning team mate Martin St. Louis and Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas.

On April 4 during a game against the Boston Bruins, Avery struck Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas in the back of his helmet with his stick as he looked up into the stands.

In a playoff game against the Montreal Canadiens on March 26, 1931, Ross had goaltender Tiny Thompson go to the bench for a sixth skater in the final minute of play ; even so, the Bruins lost the game 1 – 0.

Gerald Michael " Cheesey " Cheevers ( born December 7, 1940 in St. Catharines, Ontario ) is a former goaltender in the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association between 1961 and 1980, most famous for his two stints with the Boston Bruins, where he backstopped the team to Stanley Cup wins in 1970 and 1972.

On 15 January 2003, Tampa Bay made a trade with the Boston Bruins that brought goaltender John Grahame to the team as Khabibulin's new backup.

Hextall became the first NHL goaltender to score a goal by shooting the puck into the opponent's empty net, against the Boston Bruins in the season.

It was one of the most one-sided trades in hockey history – Bucyk went on to play 21 more years with the Bruins.

As a professional, he joined the Boston Bruins in 1968 and was a member of their Stanley Cup championship teams in 1970 and 1972.

He was one of four black players on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team ; the others were Woody Strode, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett.

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

The Calder was awarded to Boston Bruins defenceman Ray Bourque.

Although he was a member of the Bruins, the Atlanta crowd cheered Savard the entire night.

Ramsay, who had been an assistant coach for the Boston Bruins for the previous three seasons, was a former NHL player who had been a teammate of Dudley's on the Buffalo Sabres.

Because the NHL already had a team in the New England area, the Boston Bruins, the former WHA team was renamed the Hartford Whalers.

However, tragedy struck hours after the team's first-round loss to the Bruins, when defenceman Steve Chiasson was thrown from his pickup truck and killed in a single-vehicle drunk-driving accident.

The latter was responsible for trading away power forward Cam Neely to the Boston Bruins in 1986.

He was offered tryouts by the junior affiliates of both the Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings.

The Art Ross Trophy was presented to the National Hockey League in 1947 by Arthur Howie " Art " Ross, former general manager and head coach of the Boston Bruins and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee as a player.

The hockey team was discontinued after a successful history in 1992, with the void filled by other Bruins Varsity sports.

He was later traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1970 and to the Boston Bruins in 1973.

The last previous tournament not won by the Bruins was the 1966 tournament.

* Felix the Cat was featured on the NHL goalie Félix Potvin's helmet while he played for the Boston Bruins.

He was supposed to be succeeded by former alderman of The Hague Bruno Bruins, but the cabinet fell before he could be installed.

In December 1936, the Maroons captain Hooley Smith was traded to the Boston Bruins, a move which would mark the beginning of the end for the franchise.

The conflict was resolved on February 7, 1992, when the team dealt him to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Craig Janney and Stéphane Quintal.

Sidorkiewicz struggled for the rest of the series and Moog was spectacular for the Bruins.

On November 26, 1925, Thanksgiving night, the Pirates defeated the Boston Bruins, 2-1, on the road in their very first NHL game, which was held at Boston Arena.

Dryden was raised in Islington ( then just outside Toronto ) and drafted fourteenth overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1964 NHL Amateur Draft.

Langway was also an assistant coach under Tom McVie with the American Hockey League's Providence Bruins during the 1997 – 98 season.