Boston Bruins: The 11 Biggest and Baddest Players in Team
History  By (Featured Columnist) on September 4, 2012  4,683
reads   1 of 13 Shawn Thornton's willingness to fight makes him
a classic Boston Bruin. Paul Bereswill/Getty Images  When it
comes to teams that are willing to mix it up nearly every time
they take the ice, no NHL team compares with the Boston Bruins.
The Philadelphia Flyers come to mind, but the Bruins had been
playing with their take-no-prisoners style for nearly five
decades before the great expansion of 1967 that brought the
Flyers to the NHL.  The Bruins have had their share of all-time
great players. Bobby Orr is No. 1 or 2 on the NHL's all-time
list—depending on whether you favor him or Wayne Gretzky—and he
is followed by Ray Bourque and Johnny Bucyk.  But the Bruins'
image is that of players who ask for no quarter and give none.
Orr, by the way, could handle himself with his fists as well as
anyone if he saw fit.  Players who were willing to fight and
take an elbow in order to make a