Rookie camps open across the NHL in just over a week, and they can’t arrive fast enough. Fans, writers, and podcasters alike are running on fumes at this point, bored out of their minds and desperate for something—anything—new to talk about.
Even I’m starting to run low on material — and that’s not usually a problem for me. I can almost always find something current and relevant to dig into, but this stretch has tested even my well.
So today, I’m digging deep — real deep — and pulling apart some numbers from last season and what they might tell us heading into the upcoming year for the Boston Bruins. I couldn’t fill every number on the board, so if you’ve got a nugget that fits one of the gaps, drop it in the comments and help round this out.
1. The Bruins need one home victory to reach 2000 in their history.
2. Jeremy Swayman needs two shutouts to surpass Hal Winkler for ninth all-time. Nikita Zadorov needs two penalty minutes to reach 1000 in his career.
3. David Pastrnak needs three assists to tie Wayne Cashman for eighth all-time.
4. Mason Lohrei needs four goals to reach 20 in his career. Casey Mittelstadt needs four goals to reach 100 in his career.
5. The Bruins have five Russians either on the NHL roster or prospect pool, their most ever for a single season.
6. The Bruins are six shootout losses away from their 100th in franchise history.
7. David Pastrnak needs seven goals to tie Patrice Bergeron for third all-time.
8. JJ Peterka needs eight goals to reach 100 career goals.
9. Henri Jokiharju needs nine assists to reach 100 in his career. Mason Lohrei needs nine games to reach 200 in his career. Charlie McAvoy needs 9 PIM’s to reach 500 in his career.
10. Nikita Zadorov needs ten points to reach 200 in his career. Charlie McAvoy needs ten assists to reach 300 in his career.
11. Bruins goaltenders have won the Vezina Trophy on eleven occasions.
12. Bruins players have won the Hart Trophy on twelve occasions.
13. Nikita Zadorov needs thirteen assists to reach 150 in his career. Mark Kastelic needs thirteen games to reach 300 for his career.
14. David Pastrnak needs fourteen even strength goals to tie Brad Marchand for second all-time.
15. The Bruins had fifteen players with at least 20 points last season.
16. Sean Kuraly needs sixteen penalty minutes to reach 400 in his career.
17. Connor Clifton and Will Borgen need 17 points to reach 100 in their careers.
18. Casey Mittelstadt needs eighteen points to reach 200 for his career.
19. The Bruins are nineteen wins away from surpassing 3500 wins in their history.
20. David Pastrnak is twenty GWG shy of tying Johnny Bucyk for the most in Bruins history with 88.
21. The Bruins scored twenty-one more goals then they allowed last season.
22. Casey Mittelstadt needs twenty-two points to reach 300 in his career.
23. The Bruins are twenty-three losses away from reaching 2550 in their history.
24. Jeremy Swayman needs twenty-four wins to surpass Gilles Gilbert for seventh all-time.
25. Sean Kuraly needs twenty-five points to reach 200 for his career.
26. Michael Eyssimont needs twenty-six points to reach 100 for his career.
27. Will Borgen needs twenty-seven games to reach the 400th of his career.
28. Mason Lohrei needs twenty-eight points to reach 100 in his career. He also needs a plus twenty-eight to break even for his career.
29. Tanner Jeannot needs twenty-nine games to reach 400 in his career. Charlie McAvoy needs twenty-nine points to reach 400 for his career.
30. Jonathan Aspirot let the team with a plus-30 last season.
31. Elias Lindholm needs thirty-one games to reach 1000 in his career. Michael Eyssimont needs thirty-one to reach 300 games. Matthew Poitras needs thirty-one to reach 100 games.
32. Tanner Jeannot needs thirty-two penalty minutes to surpass 500 for his career.
33. Nikita Zadorov led the team with thirty-three takeaways last season.
34. It took thirty-four games for the Bruins to earn their 20th victory last season.
35. Thirty-five players dressed in at least one game for the Bruins last season.
37. Patrice Bergeron’s number gets retired!!
38. Jeremey Swayman needs thirty-eight games to surpass Byron Dafoe for seventh most all-time.
39. Charlie McAvoy needs thirty-nine points to reach 400 in his career.
40. Jonathan Aspirot needs forty games to surpass 100 in his career.
41. Alex Steeves needs forty-one games to reach 100 for his career.
42. The new halfway point of the season. Last year, they had a .512 points percentage at the halfway mark.
43. David Pastrnak needs 43 points to surpass Brad Marchand for fifth all-time.
44. All eyes will be on number 44, James Hagens.
47. Elias Lindholm needs 47 penalty minutes to reach 300 for his career.
48. Elias Lindholm needs forty-eight points to reach 700 in his career. Pavel Zacha needs forty-eight assists to reach 300 in his career.
50. Mason Lohrei’s plus/minus improved by plus-50 last season.
51. Marat Khustnutdinov needs fifty-one points to reach 100 for his career.
55. Jeremy Swayman needs fifty-five games to reach 300 for his career.
56. Sean Kuraly needs fifty-six games to reach 700 in his career.
57. Connor Clifton needs fifty-seven PIM’s to reach 400 for his career.
64. The Bruins are sixty-four games away from playing their 7100st game.
66. Connor Clifton needs sixty-six games to reach 500 for his career.
67. David Pastrnak needs sixty-seven points to reach 1000 in his career and sixty-seven games to reach 900 for his career.
71. Hampus Lindholm needs seventy-one games to reach 900 in his career.
73. Morgan Geekie needs seventy-three points to reach 300 in his career.
78. The Bruins allowed seventy-eight more HDC then the league average last season.
80. David Pastrnak led the team in SOG last season, 80 more than Morgan Geekie who was second.
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