On Ice
BRUINS GOALIE TINY THOMPSON IN LOCKER ROOM, ca. 1928. Leslie Jones Collection, BPL Print Department.
Cecil “Tiny” Thompson, who goal-tended for the Bruins from 1928–1938, won four Vezina Trophies, awarded to the league’s best goalie.
The "Big Bad" Bruins professional hockey team moved from the Boston Arena to the Garden in its inaugural year. They played their first game on the new ice on November 20, 1928, before a standing-room-only crowd of 16,000 fans.
