With the history of this league, how many good teams there’s been, it’s special. “We’re very proud of this group and what we’ve been able to accomplish. It’s not our be all or end all, but it’s an incredible accomplishment. We needed something to play for the remainder of the regular season. “We did set our sights on it the last little while where we had kind of locked up first. “It’s something we’re proud of,” admitted Brad Marchand. Instead, chasing the all-time record kept Boston playing the right way and allowed them to stay focused as a team on playing at a high level with the playoffs approaching. Chasing the record actually gave the Boston Bruins something to focus on even as they were far and away the best team in the NHL this season and could have just coasted to the President’s Trophy. It was an appropriate regular season finale for a Boston Bruins team that still could even push to 135 points for the season and a 65 th regular season win with another victory in Montreal on Thursday night.Īmazingly, the Bruins only had two stretches during their season where they lost consecutive games and only one spot on the schedule where they dropped two regulation games in a row, and that added up to the historical dominance everybody was celebrating on Tuesday night. Montgomery said he heard from both Jon Cooper and Scotty Bowman, the two head coaches of the teams whose record the Bruins broke when they recorded their 63 rd win of the season last weekend, and of course it was Bowman coaching those great Canadiens teams in the 1970’s that the Bruins just surpassed as well with the 133 points this season.
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