The Boston Bruins entered the 2022-23 NHL season with modest expectations. The group amassed 107 factors final season, earlier than bowing out within the first spherical of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. Through the summer time, the Bruins fired head coach Bruce Cassidy and replaced him with Jim Montgomery. Caesars Sportsbook gave them 25-1 odds to win the Stanley Cup, and we ranked them 14th in our preseason Power Rankings.

Then the season started, and the Bruins have been authoring one of many best common seasons within the trendy, wage cap period (since 2005-06).

By way of 48 video games, the Bruins have skated to a 38-6-4 document, good for 80 factors and an .833 factors proportion. Observe alongside right here because the B’s chase down NHL historical past, and watch them dwell in six unique video games on ABC, ESPN+ and Hulu, together with different video games obtainable to out-of-market viewers on NHL Energy Play on ESPN+, which is included in an ESPN+ subscription.

Wins: 38

By way of 48 video games, the Bruins are on tempo for 65 wins by season’s finish. The present document for many wins in a season (62) was set in 1995-96 by the Detroit Red Wings (who completed 62-13-7), and tied in 2018-19 by the Tampa Bay Lightning (62-16-4). Neither group gained the Stanley Cup in its respective record-setting season, because the Purple Wings misplaced to the Colorado Avalanche within the Western Convention finals, and the Lightning had been swept within the first spherical by the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Factors: 80

Boston is on tempo for 137 factors this season. This might shatter the present document for factors in a season held by the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens (132), who set that mark in an 80-game season. The Canadiens gained the Cup that season — over the Bruins.

Purpose differential: +82

Purpose differential just isn’t an simply projectable stat for various causes. But when we took the Bruins’ present differential — which is finest within the league by 41 targets — and extrapolated that out to 82 video games, they’d end at plus-140. That is a quantity that will blow by something within the wage cap period, however can be tied for seventh in league historical past. The 1976-77 Canadiens are atop the board, at plus-216.

Crew save proportion: .931

Linus Ullmark and Jeremy Swayman are one of many NHL’s finest goaltending duos, and together with a 30-of-31 recreation by Keith Kinkaid, the group has generated the league’s finest group save proportion, forward of the Winnipeg Jets at .921. Although not an official league document, the most effective mark for a group in a single season is .934, set by the 1968-69 St. Louis Blues.

Targets in opposition to per recreation: 2.04

All of these saves have resulted in not many targets for Bruins opponents. Their mark of two.04 targets in opposition to per recreation is nicely forward of second place Dallas (2.56) and a batch of groups between 2.59 and a pair of.63. The post-1967 growth document for lowest goals-against common in a season is 1.89, held by the 2011-12 Blues.

David Pastrnak

The 26-year-old winger is second within the NHL with 37 targets, and third with 70 factors, on tempo for 63 and 120 respectively. These totals do not method all-time NHL data, but when he hits that objective mark, it will be the fourth-most targets in a season by a Bruin, breaking Phil Esposito’s clear sweep of the highest 5 goal-scoring seasons in B’s historical past.

Linus Ullmark

By notching his twenty fifth win of the season in his twenty eighth recreation, Ullmark broke the NHL document for fewest variety of video games to achieve that victory benchmark. He leads the league in goals-against common (1.86) and save proportion (.937). The one-season NHL document for wins (48, by Braden Holtby in 2015-16) is in play. The fashionable-era document for GAA is 1.56 (Brian Elliott, 2011-12) and for save proportion is .940 (additionally by Elliott in 2011-12).

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Bruins’ upcoming video games

Notice: All video games not on ESPN, TNT or NHL Community can be found by way of NHL Energy Play, which is included in an ESPN+ subscription (native blackout restrictions apply).

Jan. 28: @ Florida Panthers
6 ET | NHL Community

Jan. 29: @ Carolina Hurricanes
5 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 1: @ Toronto Maple Leafs
7:30 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 11: vs. Washington Capitals
3:30 ET | ABC, ESPN+

Feb. 14: @ Dallas Stars
8:30 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 16: @ Nashville Predators
8 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 18: vs. New York Islanders
5 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 20: vs. Ottawa Senators
1 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 23: @ Seattle Kraken
10 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 25: @ Vancouver Canucks
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 27: @ Edmonton Oilers
8:30 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

Feb. 28: @ Calgary Flames
9 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 2: vs. Buffalo Sabres
7:30 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 4: vs. New York Rangers
1 ET | ABC, ESPN+

March 9: vs. Edmonton Oilers
7:30 | ESPN+, Hulu

March 11: vs. Detroit Red Wings
1 ET | ABC, ESPN+

March 12: @ Detroit Red Wings
1:30 | TNT

March 14: @ Chicago Blackhawks
8:30 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 16: @ Winnipeg Jets
8 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 18: @ Minnesota Wild
2 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 19: @ Buffalo Sabres
1 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 21: vs. Ottawa Senators
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 23: vs. Montreal Canadiens
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 25: vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
1 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 26: @ Carolina Hurricanes
5 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

March 28: vs. Nashville Predators
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

April 1: @ Pittsburgh Penguins
3 ET | ABC, ESPN+

April 2: @ St. Louis Blues
3:30 ET | TNT

April 6: vs. Toronto Maple Leafs
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

April 8: vs. New Jersey Devils
8 ET | ABC, ESPN+

April 9: @ Philadelphia Flyers
6 ET | TNT

April 11: vs. Washington Capitals
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+

April 13: @ Montreal Canadiens
7 ET | NHL Energy Play on ESPN+