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Ross, a native of Naughton, Ontario, was managing a sporting goods store in Montreal when hired by Adams to run the franchise. 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. He also developed the fiber guard for the back of skates which protects the vulnerable Achilles tendon from injury.

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. 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.

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With a second place finish in 1926 27 and a trip to the Stanley Cup Final against Ottawa and a first place finish in 1927 28, the Bruins were rapidly becoming a force to reckon with in the National Hockey League. On April 3, 1928, the Bruins played their last game in the Arena before moving into the Boston Garden, losing to the New York Rangers, 4 1, in the last Semifinal playoff game.

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Art Ross’s talent for predicting the future waves of the game played a big part in the Bruins’ Cup quest that year. For many years, he had advocated a rule change that forward passing be allowed into the attacking zone and he had his team practicing it before it was enacted. When the rule change came through for 1928 29, his team was prepared and had an edge on the competition.

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The 1930s saw the Bruins compile five first place divisional canada goose deals finishes with many individual honors accrued. Tiny Thompson won the Vezina Trophy as the league’s premier goaltender on four occasions. Eddie Shore captured the Hart Trophy as the league’s most valuable player in four seasons as well.

On March 14, 1933, the Bruins won the only forfeited game in modern NHL history. They had tied the game with two goals in the last five minutes of a game against Chicago. Eddie Shore scored the second goal with one arena clock on the 20:00 mark and the other clock past it. Chicago coach Tommy Gorman protested, but the goal stood. Marty Barry then scored another disputed goal in overtime. Gorman pulled his team off the ice and the Bruins were awarded the forfeited game.

The late 1930s brought several players to the Bruins that seemed to ensure their success for years to come. In 1936, Ross had taken a chance on the acquisition of Bobby Bauer when many ‘experts’ in hockey maintained that he was too small. From the same team, Ross also acquired Bauer’s teammates, Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart, thus creating another great Bruins line, the “Kraut Line” or as they were also called, the “Kitchener Kids”.

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In all, the first 15 years of canada goose clearance the Bruins’ existence in the NHL were glorious ones. They had eight first place finishes in the league or their division, reached the Stanley Cup Final four times and twice won the coveted Trophy. An amazing 17 people associated with the franchise during that time span were eventually elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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The ’30s closed out with the Kraut Line keeping up their pace. Schmidt, whom Art Ross called ‘the greatest of modern centers’, led the league in scoring and for the first time in league history, three players not only from the same team, but the same line, finished the season in the top three spots of the individual scoring race. The 1939 40 season also closed a bright chapter in Bruins history as Eddie Shore ended his career with the team after 14 seasons, seven First Team All Star berths and four Hart Trophies. On January 25, 1940, Shore was traded to the New York Americans after he announced that he had purchased the Springfield Indians of the AHL and would play only home games for the Bruins.

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World War II intervened in the early ’40s with Schmidt, Bauer and Dumart enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force and Brimsek and Conacher leaving as well to join the canada goose outlet war effort. Although the Bruins made it to the Cup finals in 1943, the remaining part of the decade was unrewarding with Dit Clapper’s retirement on February 12, 1947 after becoming the first player to play 20 seasons in the league and Bauer retiring as well at the end of the 1946 47 season.

The 1950s saw three Stanley Cup Final appearances, but Boston finished as high as second in the regular season just once (1958 59). Milt Schmidt retired in December, 1954, assuming the coaching reins from Lynn Patrick, but the team continued its decline in the early ’60s, with their eight year drought of playoff appearances from 1960 67 the longest such stretch in Bruins history.

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Esposito and Hodge gave the Bruins much needed offensive depth and, combined with the unparalleled two way play of Orr and the shrewd and intelligent Sinden behind the bench, the Bruins were on the way to becoming the power team of the early 1970s.

These were magical years for Bruins fans, as Orr set league records and standards for defensemen, Esposito became the first player in NHL history to record a 100 point season and goaltender Gerry Cheevers seemed to stop everything that came his way. In 1969 70, Orr became the only player to ever win four trophies in a single season with the Norris, Hart, Ross and Smythe Trophies. In the playoffs, everything came together in near perfection. With the Quarterfinal series against the Rangers tied at two games apiece, the Bruins reeled off ten straight victories through Chicago and the first three Final games against St. Louis.

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