Bruins set new NHL record after beating Flyers for 63rd win of season

The 2021-22 Boston Bruins have rewritten the NHL file books following their 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday. 

With their 63rd win of the season, the Bruins now have probably the most single-season wins by any staff in NHL historical past, taking the file from the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings that went 62-13-7. 

This was imagined to be a transition yr for the Bruins, a staff that had a brand new head coach in Jim Montgomery and lots of query marks on the roster, together with whether or not captain Patrice Bergeron was returning after being knocked out by the Carolina Hurricanes within the Stanley Cup Playoffs final season.

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Charlie Coyle celebrates his first-period objective in opposition to the Flyers together with his Boston Bruins teammates on the Wells Fargo Middle on April 9, 2023, in Philadelphia. (Len Redkoles/NHLI through Getty Pictures)

However that rapidly modified when the Bruins went on a tear to start out the season, and by no means seemed again. 

“I feel it reveals the type of group we have now,” defenseman Connor Clifton informed Fox Information Digital about setting the brand new file. “We belief one another and the type we’re enjoying.”

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It was solely proper that David Pastrnak, the staff’s factors chief this season, scored his profession 298th, 299th and three hundredth targets for a hat trick within the win. It additionally totaled 60 targets for him on a season the place he earned an enormous eight-year extension price $11.25 million per season. 

That type Clifton alluded to runs by Pastrnak, which confirmed on the primary of his three goals in Philadelphia. Clifton received the puck on the blue line and was on the lookout for No. 88 streaking throughout the center of the offensive zone. 

A fast flick of the carbon fiber in his fingers led to an ideal go to Pastrnak, who despatched a missile on the Flyers’ internet. It discovered the five-hole of goaltender Felix Sandstrom for the staff’s second objective of the sport. 

About five-and-a-half minutes later, it was an influence play objective for Pastrnak, assisted by Tyler Bertuzzi and Pavel Zacha to make it a 3-1 recreation. And when the third interval had simply gotten underway, a Flyer turnover led Bertuzzi to seek out Pastrnak on the push for the hat trick. 

Boston Bruins goalies Jeremy Swayman, left, and Linus Ullmark have a good time a win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-1, in time beyond regulation. (Barry Chin/The Boston Globe through Getty Pictures)

Charlie Coyle additionally collected the primary objective of the sport simply 47 seconds after puck drop, sniping one previous Sandstrom for his fifteenth objective of the yr. 

For the Flyers, Wade Allison scored simply seconds after Coyle and Joel Farabee flipped in his 14th objective of the season within the second interval to make it a one-goal recreation. Owen Tippett’s twenty fourth of the season did the identical, making it a 4-3 recreation on an odd-man rush. 

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However Philly skilled what many different NHL groups have this season, because the Bruins had been in a position to execute to the ultimate buzzer, doing no matter it took to win. Zacha added a late third-period objective, assisted by Pastrnak, to be the dagger within the historic win. 

By means of all of the data, all of the success this common season, the Bruins have remained constant of their thought course of heading into the playoffs: The Presidents’ Trophy is not the one factor they need to hoist. 

They need the Cup. 

David Pastrnak and his Boston Bruins teammates celebrates the second of his two second-period targets in opposition to the Flyers on the Wells Fargo Middle on April 9, 2023, in Philadelphia. (Len Redkoles/NHLI through Getty Pictures)

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“We really feel we’re constructed for an extended playoff run,” Clifton defined. “Clearly an everyday season file has nothing to do with the postseason, so we secured our house ice benefit, and we return to zero. Now we have to seek out the type that’s going to provide us success within the onerous, tight video games which might be coming. It’s going to be difficult and we’re gonna face obstacles each collection we’re in, however we imagine in what we have now in that room.”