Boston Bruins Flashback: Trade that cost team multiple Stanley Cups

Ken Dryden, a short career, but the greatest

Dryden won the Stanley Cup six times in only seven-plus seasons That’s the picture. An awful one for the Boston Bruins and especially their older fans, many of whom “haven’t the faintest” that Ken Dryden was once a Bruin.

This trade amounted to the worst trade in Bruins’ history, the worst trade probably in NHL history and clearly one of the worst trades in sports history, as well.

To close, and this is pure speculation, if that trade was not made, the Boston Bruins of the early 1970s would likely have created one of, if not THE greatest hockey dynasty in NHL history, to rival or even exceed the exploits of the Great Gretsky’s Edmonton teams. Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, and Ken Dryden, on the same team?

Oh … what might have been. The Boston Bruins could have even more Stanley Cup banners hanging from the TD Garden rafters. The B’s would have been the New England Patriots of the NFL.