Call them the “20-Karat Goal Club,” standard bearers of the record for 20-plus goal scorers in a single season in NHL history. Those 11 members of the 1977-78 Bruins roster with 20-plus goals each were honored prior to the team’s game against the Calgary Flames Tuesday night.
“Very difficult to have eleven 20-goal scorers,” team President Cam Neely said in a pregame press conference and a reunion of the gang that shot very straight 40 years ago. “You might see four or five or six [today].”
“Eleven 20-goal scorers will never be broken,” former Bruins coach and current Hockey Night in Canada analyst Don ‘Grapes’ Cherry said Tuesday.