The big, bad Boston Bruins are good — historically, record-breakingly good.
They have a better regular-season record than those Wayne Gretzky Oilers teams in the ’80s. Better than the 2000s Detroit Red Wings team with 10 future Hall of Famers. Better than Bobby Orr’s early-’70s Bruins.
With their 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils Saturday, the Bruins have 62 wins — tying the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning and the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings — and they still have three games left to claim the record as their own.
It’s a stunning success story for a team that most prognosticators expected to either barely
