The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and are one of the

Original Six The Original Six () are the teams that comprised the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1942 and 1967. The six teams are the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs ...

teams of the league. Founded in

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

, they are the league's third-oldest team and the oldest team based in the United States, with 2021–22 season marking the 98th year for the franchise. As of the end of their 2021–22 season, the Bruins have won 3,292 regular season games, accumulated 26 division championships and five conference championships, led the league in points fourteen times, appeared in the playoffs 75 times and won six

Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ...

titles.

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Notes

*From the 1924–25 season through the 1925–26 season, the NHL had no divisions. *From the 1926–27 season through the 1937–38 season, Boston played in the American Division. *From the 1938–39 season through the 1966–67 season, the NHL had no divisions. *Prior to the 1967–68 season, the NHL split into East and West Divisions because of the addition of six expansion teams. *The NHL realigned prior to the 1974–75 season. The Bruins were placed in the Prince of Wales Conference's Adams Division. *The NHL realigned into Eastern and Western conferences prior to the 1993–94 season. Boston was placed in the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference. *The season was shortened to 48 games because of the

1994–95 NHL lockout The 1994–95 NHL lockout was a lockout that came after a year of National Hockey League (NHL) hockey that was played without a collective bargaining agreement. The lockout was a subject of dispute as the players sought collective bargaining and ...

. *Beginning with the 1999–2000 season, teams received one point for losing a regular season game in overtime. *The season was cancelled because of the

2004–05 NHL lockout The 2004–05 NHL lockout was a labor lockout that resulted in the cancellation of the National Hockey League (NHL) season, which would have been its 88th season of play. The main dispute was the league's desire to implement a salary cap to ...

. *Prior to the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties. *The season was shortened to 48 games because of the

2012–13 NHL lockout The 2012–13 NHL lockout was a labor dispute between the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) that began at 11:59 pm EDT on September 15, 2012. A tentative deal on a new collective barga ...

. *The NHL realigned prior to the 2013–14 season. The Bruins were placed in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. *The regular season was suspended on March 12, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and officially concluded on May 26, 2020, with the announcement of a 24-team expanded playoff to be held in the summer. The Bruins played 70 of their scheduled 82 games, and having secured the highest point percentage in the eastern conference, were one of the four teams to play in a three-game round-robin to determine seeding for the first round. *Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the

2020–21 NHL season The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

was shortened to 56 games.

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