David Pastrnak’s objective provides Bruins the late lead (0:46)
David Pastrnak ideas the objective in to offer the Bruins the 5-4 lead vs. the Canadiens. (0:46)
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ESPN workersApr 11, 2023, 10:31 PM ET
The Boston Bruins entered the 2022-23 NHL season with modest expectations. The staff amassed 107 factors final season, earlier than bowing out within the first spherical of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. Through the summer time, the Bruins fired head coach Bruce Cassidy and replaced him with Jim Montgomery. Caesars Sportsbook gave them 25-1 odds to win the Stanley Cup, and we ranked them 14th in our preseason Power Rankings.
Then the season started, and the Bruins have been authoring one of many best common seasons within the fashionable, wage cap period (since 2005-06).
The Bruins have skated to a 65-12-5 file, good for 135 factors (an NHL record) and an .823 factors share. They grew to become simply the fourth team to win 60 games, and set the record for wins in a season.
Wins: 65
The Bruins completed the season with an NHL-record 65 wins, passing the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings (who completed 62-13-7) and the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning (62-16-4) for many wins in a season. Neither of these groups gained the Stanley Cup in its respective record-setting season, because the Purple Wings misplaced to the Colorado Avalanche within the Western Convention finals, and the Lightning have been swept within the first spherical by the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Factors: 135
The Bruins handed the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens (132 factors) for many factors in a season with a 5-2 win over the Washington Capitals of their 81st sport. The Canadiens set that mark in an 80-game season and gained the Cup — over the Bruins.
Purpose differential: +128
The Bruins’ objective differential is 62 objectives higher than the second-best staff (Stars at plus-66). The 1976-77 Canadiens at plus-216. maintain the NHL file at plus-216.
Workforce save share: .931
Linus Ullmark and Jeremy Swayman are one of many NHL’s greatest goaltending duos, and together with a 30-of-31 sport by Keith Kinkaid, the group has generated the league’s greatest staff save share, forward of the New York Islanders, at .921. Although not an official league file, one of the best mark for a staff in a single season is .934, set by the 1968-69 St. Louis Blues.
Targets towards per sport: 2.12
All of these saves have resulted in not many objectives for Bruins opponents. Their mark of two.12 objectives towards per sport is properly forward of the second place Carolina Hurricanes (2.55). The post-1967 enlargement file for lowest goals-against common in a season is 1.89, held by the 2011-12 Blues.
David Pastrnak
The 26-year-old winger is second within the NHL with 61 objectives, and is fourth with 113 factors. He is simply the second Bruin to attain 60 objectives in a season, with Phil Esposito doing it 4 occasions. The 61 objectives ties for the fourth most in a season in Bruins historical past.
Linus Ullmark
By notching his twenty fifth win of the season in his twenty eighth sport, Ullmark broke the NHL file for fewest variety of video games to achieve that victory benchmark. He leads the league in wins (40), goals-against common (1.89) and save share (.938). The one-season NHL file for wins (48, by Braden Holtby in 2015-16) is in play. The fashionable-era file for GAA is 1.56 (Brian Elliott, 2011-12) and for save share is .940 (additionally by Elliott in 2011-12). For good measure, Ullmark scored a goal in Boston’s 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 25.
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Bruins maintain rolling with sixty fourth win
The Boston Bruins beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 for his or her sixty fourth win of the season.
Bruins’ upcoming video games
+Spherical 1 of the playoffs: Bruins vs. Panthers, TBD
