Boston Bruins

Every NHL player the encyclopedia attributes to the Boston Bruinsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Boston Bruins has passed down, steadiest first. The G room is their most stable — 18 holders across 98 years, a new one every 5.4 on average.

1. G18 holders · 17 handoffs · 1929–2026 · one every 5.4y
   Tiny Thompson1929–1939→Frank Brimsek1939–1949→Don Simmons1957–1961→Eddie Johnston1963–1973→Gerry Cheevers1966–1980→Gilles Gilbert1974–1980→Pete Peeters1983–1986→Doug Keans1984–1988→Bill Ranford1986–1997→Andy Moog1988–1993→Rejean Lemelin1988–1993→Byron Dafoe1998–2002→Tim Thomas2003–2012→Tuukka Rask2008–2022→Anton Khudobin2012–2018→Jaroslav Halak2019–2021→Jeremy Swayman2021–2026→Linus Ullmark2022–2024
2. D34 holders · 33 handoffs · 1927–2026 · one every 2.9y
   Eddie Shore1927–1940→Flash Hollett1936–1944→Jack Crawford1938–1950→Fern Flaman1945–1961→Bill Quackenbush1950–1956→Jim Morrison1952–1959→Warren Godfrey1953–1963→Leo Boivin1955–1966→Dallas Smith1960–1977→Ted Green1961–1972→Don Awrey1964–1973→Gary Doak1966–1981→Bobby Orr1967–1976→Rick Smith1969–1980→Carol Vadnais1972–1976→Brad Park1976–1983→Mike Milbury1976–1987→Ray Bourque1980–2000→Mike O'connell1981–1986→Glen Wesley1988–1994→Don Sweeney1989–2003→Gord Murphy1992–2002→Kyle McLaren1996–2002→Hal Gill1998–2006→Dennis Wideman2007–2010→Andrew Ference2007–2013→Zdeno Chara2007–2020→Johnny Boychuk2009–2014→Dennis Seidenberg2010–2016→Adam McQuaid2010–2018→Torey Krug2012–2020→Matt Grzelcyk2017–2024→Brandon Carlo2017–2025→Charlie McAvoy2017–2026
3. LW33 holders · 32 handoffs · 1931–2025 · one every 2.9y
   Red Beattie1931–1938→Woody Dumart1936–1954→Roy Conacher1939–1946→Herb Cain1940–1946→Ken Smith1945–1951→Ed Sandford1948–1955→Real Chevrefils1952–1959→Doug Mohns1954–1964→Vic Stasiuk1956–1961→Johnny Bucyk1958–1978→Jean-Guy Gendron1959–1964→Wayne Cashman1965–1983→Don Marcotte1966–1982→Fred Stanfield1968–1973→Stan Jonathan1976–1983→John Wensink1977–1980→Dave Reid1984–1996→Charlie Simmer1985–1987→Randy Burridge1986–1991→Jozef Stumpel1992–2003→Ted Donato1992–2004→Shawn McEachern1996–2006→Sergei Samsonov1998–2006→P.J. Axelsson1998–2009→Marco Sturm2006–2010→Shawn Thornton2008–2014→Milan Lucic2008–2024→Daniel Paille2010–2015→Brad Marchand2010–2025→Loui Eriksson2014–2016→Danton Heinen2017–2024→Jake DeBrusk2018–2024→Taylor Hall2021–2023
4. RW40 holders · 39 handoffs · 1927–2026 · one every 2.5y
   Harry Oliver1927–1934→Dit Clapper1928–1947→Bobby Bauer1937–1952→Pentti Lund1947–1953→Johnny Peirson1947–1958→Leo Labine1952–1961→Jerry Toppazzini1953–1964→Larry Regan1957–1959→Tommy Williams1962–1969→Ed Westfall1962–1972→John McKenzie1966–1972→Ken Hodge1968–1976→Terry O'Reilly1972–1985→Dave Forbes1974–1977→Bobby Schmautz1974–1980→Rick Middleton1977–1988→Dwight Foster1978–1987→Keith Crowder1981–1989→Cam Neely1987–1996→Stephen Leach1992–1996→Steve Heinze1992–2000→Glen Murray1992–2008→Tim Sweeney1993–1997→Mariusz Czerkawski1994–2006→Anson Carter1997–2000→Rob DiMaio1997–2000→Dmitri Khristich1998–1999→Mike Knuble2000–2004→Brian Rolston2000–2012→Bill Guerin2001–2002→Martin Lapointe2002–2004→Phil Kessel2007–2009→Chuck Kobasew2007–2010→Blake Wheeler2009–2011→Mark Recchi2009–2011→Michael Ryder2009–2011→Nathan Horton2011–2013→Reilly Smith2014–2015→David Pastrnak2015–2026→David Backes2017–2020
5. C44 holders · 43 handoffs · 1929–2026 · one every 2.2y
   Cooney Weiland1929–1939→Marty Barry1930–1935→Nels Stewart1933–1937→Bill Cowley1936–1947→Milt Schmidt1937–1955→Art Jackson1938–1945→Don Gallinger1943–1948→Paul Ronty1948–1951→Dave Creighton1949–1954→Fleming MacKell1952–1960→Cal Gardner1954–1957→Don McKenney1955–1963→Bronco Horvath1958–1961→Murray Oliver1961–1967→Derek Sanderson1966–1974→Phil Esposito1968–1976→Mike Walton1971–1979→Gregg Sheppard1973–1978→Jean Ratelle1976–1981→Peter McNab1977–1984→Bob Miller1978–1981→Steve Kasper1981–1989→Barry Pederson1981–1992→Tom Fergus1982–1985→Ken Linseman1985–1990→Bob Sweeney1987–1992→Craig Janney1988–1992→Bobby Carpenter1989–1992→Vladimir Ruzicka1991–1993→Adam Oates1992–1997→Jason Allison1997–2001→Joe Thornton1998–2006→Patrice Bergeron2004–2023→Marc Savard2007–2011→David Krejci2007–2023→Tyler Seguin2011–2013→Gregory Campbell2011–2015→Chris Kelly2011–2016→Ryan Spooner2013–2018→Sean Kuraly2017–2026→Charlie Coyle2019–2025→Trent Frederic2019–2025→Pavel Zacha2023–2026→Morgan Geekie2024–2026

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1927–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.