PHILADELPHIA – The feeling that settled over the shoulders of Jim Montgomery as the final buzzer sounded on the Boston Bruins’ 63rd win of the season was not relief or mere joy. Not really. It was gratitude, an emotion close to the heart of the Bruins coach. It was a sense of calm, of what was supposed to happen, happening.
“For me, gratitude and just a peaceful feeling,” Montgomery said. “Just everything has felt right.” In Boston, it has been a season of remarkable games, remarkable statistics, a relentless march through all comers. With a new coach in Montgomery and a captain in Patrice Bergeron making what could be his last stand, it has often felt like the Bruins are on a path straight into the history books.
They often have been. On Sunday evening, at Wells Fargo Center, the Bruins once again wrote their names, etching 63 wins atop the list of single-season wins records for a team, besting not just the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3, but also besting the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning and the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings, earning a small piece of immortality. And that was how it came, piece by piece. “We just kept playing the way we know how,” forward Charlie Coyle said. “You take care of each night and each day and then that slowly adds up.”
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