Boston Bruins: First ever Stanley Cup Final Game 7 at TD Garden

History will be made on Wednesday night. One team will win the Stanley Cup. One thing is for sure; the 2018-2019 NHL season comes to an end for the next four months. Will the Boston Bruins hoist the Stanley Cup at home or will the St. Louis Blues win their first ever trophy?

It undoubtedly will be a historic night at TD Garden – Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, for the first time in eight years the fans get to see a seventh game in the Final for the Bruins. And for the first time in the Boston Bruins history, they will host such a game; they will play on such a stage for just the second time in history.

Before 2011, the Boston Bruins had participated in 19 different Stanley Cup Finals and they had never played in Game 7 in any of those. In 2011, everything changed as the Bruins went on to win their sixth championship in the seventh game. Two years later, the Bruins attempted to force Game 7 on the road again, but they failed in Game 6 against the Chicago Blackhawks.

That was the moment, after which the Bruins fans and players were left stunned as they had to see the Blackhawks rally around Corey Crawford to celebrate the Stanley Cup victory. Six years later, the Stanley Cup will be hoisted at TD Garden again. But this time around, the Bruins will have a crack at it as well.

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The city of Boston has hosted Game 7 of the NBA Final in 1984 when the Boston Celtics took down the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 7. It was the last time when the team from Boston won Game 7 of a final at home. Perhaps it’s fate that, that day was the 12th of June, just the same as the day of this year’s Game 7 between the Blues and the Bruins.

It took eight years for the NHL fans to see Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, something, that has been pretty frequent at the beginning of this century. The Colorado Avalanche won Game 7 at home against the New Jersey Devils in 2001. That time they had to force it with a Game 6 win on the road as the Bruins legend Raymond Bourque hoisted his first and only Stanley Cup.

Then two years later, the Devils won a home Game 7 against the Anaheim Ducks. In 2004, the Tampa Bay Lightning, similarly, after winning Game 6 on the road, beat the Calgary Flames at home to win their first ever Stanley Cup. In the following season, after the lockout, of course, the Carolina Hurricanes won Game 7 at home to top the Edmonton Oilers.

That was a nice streak of four Stanley Cup Final Game 7’s in five NHL seasons and all of those have been won by a home team. Ever since 2006, there have been just two such games played. The 2011 Game 7 was already mentioned, before that the Pittsburgh Penguins won Game 7 in Detroit in 2009.

Since 2009, the Boston Bruins have played in 10 Game 7’s and just one of those has been on the road. That only roadie came in Vancouver in 2011, which the Bruins famously won. From those nine home Game 7’s, the Bruins won five and lost four; three of these wins came against the very same opponent – the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Ever since 2008, the Stanley Cup has been hoisted at home just three times – the Los Angeles Kings have done it twice in 2012 and 2014, the Chicago Blackhawks have accomplished it in 2015. In all other eight cases, the Stanley Cup has been hoisted on the road. Don’t worry Bruins fans, there has been a streak of six consecutive seasons (2001-2007) when the home team got to win the Stanley Cup.

Will the Bruins get to hoist the Stanley Cup on Wednesday, or will the Blues get it done? The Bruins are 7-5 at home, the Blues are 9-3 on the road in the playoffs. Shedding the talks about the Stanley Cup, from the Bruins perspective, going for a 1-3 record at home in any series, means they wouldn’t deserve to win that series.

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