NHL team season
The 1971–72 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 48th season in the NHL. For the second time in three years, the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Offseason
NHL Draft
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Schedule and results
Playoffs
Boston defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–1 and the St. Louis Blues 4–0 to advance to the final.
Stanley Cup Finals
As of 2022, the 1972 Bruins are the most recent team to have won the Cup without a formal captain.[3] John Bucyk, as the team's senior assistant captain, accepted the Cup and circled the rink in the ceremonial skate.
Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers
Boston won Stanley Cup 4–2
- Scorer of game-winning goal in italics
Player statistics
Regular season
- Scoring
- Goaltending
Playoffs
- Scoring
- Goaltending
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Transactions
Awards and records
References
- Bruins on Hockey Database
- ^ "1971–1972 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
- ^ "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
- ^ Fischler, Stan (August 15, 2022). "Fischler Report: So You Want Your Son to be an NHL Star". thehockeynews.com. The Hockey News.
The last team to win a Stanley Cup without having a captain was the 1972 Boston Bruins. But they had Bobby Orr; so who needed a captain?
- ^ "1971-72 Boston Bruins Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 9, 2009.