The 1979–80 Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...

 season was the Bruins' 56th

Boston Bruins seasons

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 season

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. In the first round of the NHL Draft, the Bruins drafted Ray Bourque

Ray Bourque

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. The Bruins had two different coaches during the season. Fred Creighton

Fred Creighton

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 had a record of 40 wins, 20 losses and 13 ties, while Harry Sinden

Harry Sinden

Harry James Sinden was the long-time general manager, coach, and president for the Boston Bruins NHL hockey team, and was the coach of Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series...

 had 6 wins and 1 loss.

Game log

1979–80 Game Log
1979–80 Schedule

Playoffs

• Lost Quarter-Finals (4-1) to New York Islanders
• Won Preliminary Round (3-2) over Pittsburgh Penguins

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
	RW	80	40	52	92	24	31	9	0	4
	C	74	40	38	78	10	24	11	0	9
	C	67	28	45	73	8	11	14	0	1
	D	80	17	48	65	73	52	3	2	1
	RW	71	19	42	61	265	17	3	0	5
	D	76	14	33	47	39	37	6	0	5
	C	80	16	25	41	53	9	0	1	2
	LW	79	21	19	40	208	20	0	0	3
	LW	77	23	16	39	170	20	1	0	2
	RW	57	10	28	38	42	23	1	1	2
	C	71	10	25	35	28	14	1	2	0
	LW	44	11	21	32	19
3	1	2
	C	46	11	17	28	8	16	0	0	2
	D	78	8	18	26	62	22	0	0	2
	D	72	10	13	23	59	7	1	0	0
	D	32	5	16	21	27	11	2	0	2
	LW	69	9	11	20	110	7	0	0	2
	D	72	5	11	16	94
1	0	1
	LW	32	4	11	15	0	4	0	1	1
	RW	20	8	6	14	8
4	0	0
	D	52	0	5	5	45	14	0	0	0
	RW	17	1	3	4	16	0	0	0	0
	G	33	0	1	1	10	0	0	0	0
	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	G	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	G	42	0	0	0	62	0	0	0	0
	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	D	3	0	0	0	2
0	0	0
	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
	2479	42	24	11	7	116	2.81	4
	1933	33	20	9	3	88	2.73	1
	328	8	2	0	3	19	3.48	0
	40	1	0	0	0	2	3.00	0
	20	1	0	1	0	5	15.00	0
Team:	4800	80	46	21	13	230	2.87	5

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	PPG	SHG	GWG
	C	10	8	6	14	2	3	0	1
	D	10	2	9	11	27	0	0	0
	RW	10	3	6	9	69	2	0	1
	D	10	3	6	9	4	0	0	0
	RW	9	3	5	8	2	0	1	1
	RW	10	4	2	6	5	0	0	0
	LW	10	3	3	6	32	1	0	0
	C	10	3	2	5	4	0	1	0
	C	10	2	3	5	7	0	0	0
	LW	10	2	3	5	4	0	0	1
	D	10	0	3	3	9	0	0	0
	LW	10	0	3	3	65	0	0	0
	D	10	1	1	2	28	0	0	0
	D	6	1	1	2	2	0	0	0
	D	10	0	2	2	50	0	0	0
	C	4	0	1	1	2	0	0	0
	G	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	D	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	LW	9	0	0	0	29	0	0	0
	C	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	LW	4	0	0	0	5	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
	619	10	4	6	32	3.10	0
Team:	619	10	4	6	32	3.10	0

Milestones

Regular Season
Player	Milestone	Reached

Trades

Free agents

Player Former team Contract Terms

Player New team

Claimed from waivers

Player Former team Date claimed off waivers

Draft picks

Boston's picks at the 1980 NHL Entry Draft

1980 NHL Entry Draft

The 1980 NHL Entry Draft was held at the Montreal Forum. This was the first time that an NHL arena hosted the draft. The National Hockey League teams selected 210 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1979–80 NHL season and playoff standings. This is the...

 were as follows:

Round	#	Player	Position	Nationality	College/Junior/Club Team (League)
1	8.	Raymond Bourque	(D)		Verdun Éperviers (QMJHL)
1	15.	Brad McCrimmon Brad McCrimmon Byron Brad McCrimmon from Plenty, Saskatchewan, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. McCrimmon played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1979 and 1997. From 1997 to his death, he was a coach, ultimately with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...	(D)		Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL)