The Boston Bruins are Boston’s ice hockey team, competing in the professional Atlantic Division of the NHL’s Eastern Conference. The team was founded in 1924, by the influence of Boston grocery tycoon Charles Adams. Adams chose the name ‘Bruins’ to name the club after the Old English word for ‘brown bear’, reflecting the team’s ferocity and tenacity.
The Bruins made history in 1958 by fielding the NHL’s first ever black hockey player, Willie O’Ree, who went on to earn 45 caps for the Boston team. The Bruins were also the first team to make use of the Zamboni machine, used for ice resurfacing.
In 1970, the Bruins defeated the St. Louis Blues in four games in the Final. Bobby Orr scored the game-winning goal in overtime to clinch the Stanley Cup, involving the stunning photograph above.
It was said of the final: “No one, absolutely no one, could have finished a goal in like manner. For years Orr had been described as someone who was graceful, elegant, powerful, without fear—poetry in motion. All these epithets were captured and immortalized in the photos of the goal that won the 1970 Stanley Cup”.
To the present day, the Bruins enjoy professional success in the NHL, and continue to grow as a team and as a business.
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