the last time boston bruins won the stanley cup was 2010 -- 11.
the last time boston bruins won the stanley cup was 2010 -- 11.
when was the last time boston bruins won the stanley cup?
2010 -- 11
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the boston bruins qualified for the stanley cup playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. their conference quarter-final matchup was against their archrival, the sixth-seeded montreal canadiens. the series started off disastrously for the bruins, as they dropped two games in their own building. they would come back to win the next three games and, after dropping game 6, would ultimately win game 7 in overtime at home on a nathan horton goal. the next round featured a sweep of the second-seeded philadelphia flyers who, the previous year, had come back from down three games to none against the bruins to win the series. this propelled them to their first conference finals since the 1992 stanley cup playoffs. in the conference finals, the bruins matched up against the fifth-seeded tampa bay lightning. after dropping the first game by a lopsided score, the bruins fought back to win the next two games before dropping game four to knot the series at 2–2. the bruins took game 5 to put them a win away from the conference championship. game 6 was another loss for the bruins, but game 7 resulted in a 1–0 victory to send them to their first stanley cup finals in 21 years. in the finals, the bruins met the presidents' trophy-winning vancouver canucks. vancouver took the first two games at home, each by a goal, to build a 2–0 series lead. the bruins responded with two lopsided wins at home to tie the series 2–2, but vancouver won game 5 in their building to move the bruins one game away from losing the cup. the bruins managed to win game 6 to tie the series and then won their third game 7 of the post-season to win the stanley cup, their first in 39 years. after game 7, bruins goaltender tim thomas was named the winner of the conn smythe trophy for the post-season's most valuable player.
2010–11 boston bruins season