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📍 Boston, Massachusetts
🏒 Home of the Boston Bruins

For more than a century, the Boston Bruins have been one of the most recognizable and accomplished organizations in hockey. Some of the sport’s most talented players have donned the Spoked B sweater, helping cement the Bruins in New England’s cultural psyche – and in NHL history. The team currently plays at the region’s busiest and most esteemed indoor venue, TD Garden. Sitting atop bustling North Station in downtown Boston, the Garden opened in 1995 and holds just over 17,000 for hockey games.

Located a mere 9 inches north of their beloved former home at Boston Garden – which was demolished in 1998 – the Bruins’ current venue still honors the memory of its legendary predecessor and the electric moments that it contained. Its name, least of all, carries on the Garden moniker, and the steep seating bowl emulates the notoriously intimate design of the old barn. Outside North Station is also a larger-than-life statue of Bobby Orr, the famed Bruins defenseman, in his iconic mid-air pose after having scored the Stanley Cup-clinching overtime goal over the St. Louis Blues at Boston Garden to conclude the 1970 Finals.

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One of the “Original Six” teams, the Bruins were the first NHL expansion franchise as well as the league’s first entry in the United States. They competed in the first-ever NHL game in the nation on December 1, 1924, contesting the Montreal Maroons on home ice at Boston Arena. The Bruins played at the venue – the world’s oldest hockey arena until its decommissioning in 2025 – for four seasons until moving to Boston Garden in 1928. In their first season there, the team would secure its first of several Stanley Cups. They’d ultimately spend 67 years at the old Garden, clinching four additional Cup titles and numerous divisional crowns. After the action headed to their present-day digs in 1995, the Bruins won yet another Stanley Cup – a 2011 victory over the Canucks – and several Presidents’ Trophies, including posting the NHL’s winningest season in 2022-23.

Heritage Hall

The members and memories that have built the Bruins’ storied past are on display at Heritage Hall, a small museum on the TD Garden concourse that’s only open for tours when no events are on the arena schedule. A Hall of Fame of sorts, the space honors players and coaches that have left a mark on the organization and the fanbase. The team’s iconic puck wall and their many trophies – including some Stanley Cups – are the visual centerpieces of the museum. Interactive exhibits and touchscreens are also scattered around for folks to learn about the Bruins legacy and even try their hand at a few slapshots of their own.

Heritage Hall is a part of the greater Sports Museum, essentially a guided tour of TD Garden and it’s memorabilia-lined club level hallways. The approximately hour-long journey takes fans through exclusive spaces and offers them birds-eye views of the playing surface. As groups move through the venue, the walls are filled with artifacts that showcase not only the Bruins, but the Celtics, college basketball, women’s sports, lacrosse, the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament, New England Olympians and even the Boston Marathon too.

During Bruins games, the Garden is a worthy representation of Boston culture and cuisine. Among the offerings are iconic New England dishes like clam chowder and lobster, in addition to featured outposts of local establishments such as Sal’s Pizza. The venue is also a pioneer in the “just walk out” grab-and-go markets that have become popular at arenas nationwide, with spots like the JetBlue Runway that enable fans to tap a card when entering, make their selections and then simply leave.

Above part of the upper balcony is also a massive bar area with countless screens, alcohol options, a live sports crawler, tabletops and drink rail seats that face the action. This popular location is surprisingly not exclusively ticketed, being open to all fans during games.

Although some of its design elements and amenities have made it stand out less amongst its downtown, multi-purpose arena peers, TD Garden is still a premier NHL destination and an admirable home for one of the most passionately followed teams in pro sports.