Bruins beat Flyers to set NHL record with 63rd regular-season win

The Boston Bruins established a new NHL record for wins in a single regular season Sunday, claiming their 63rd in a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

Boston surpassed the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning and 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings, whom they tied Saturday night with a win over the New Jersey Devils. The league-leading Bruins set the record in their 80th game of 2022-23.

They need two more points to break the NHL single-season record of 132, a mark held by the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, who played an 80-game season.

The Bruins have skated circles around the rest of the league during this campaign. They clinched the Presidents' Trophy on March 30.

However, Boston has four shootout wins in 2022-23, along with five points earned in overtime or shootout losses - advantages from which the 1995-96 Red Wings and all other teams in NHL history before 2005-06 couldn't benefit.

The Bruins played without six key players Sunday: Linus Ullmark, Patrice Bergeron, Charlie McAvoy, Taylor Hall, David Krejci, and Dmitry Orlov all sat out for various reasons.

David Pastrnak netted a hat trick in the win, capping it off with his 60th goal of the season that was also the 300th of his career.

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