Editing Boston Bruins (section)

===Original Six era (1942–1967)===
The NHL had by [[1942–43 NHL season|1942]] been reduced, for the next 25 years, to the six teams that would come to be called the "[[Original Six]]".

In 1944, Bruins' [[Herb Cain]] set the then-NHL record for points in a season with 82.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 21, 1944 |title=Boston's Herb Cain Wins Scoring Honors |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XgtAAAAIBAJ&dq=Herb+Cain+82+points+record&pg=PA14&article_id=2902,3415045 |access-date=May 11, 2024 |work=The Montreal Gazette}}</ref> However, the Bruins did not make the playoffs that season.

The stars returned from World War II for the [[1945–46 NHL season|1945–46 season]], and Clapper led the team back to the [[1946 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup Finals]] as [[player-coach]]. He retired as a player after the next season, becoming the first player to play twenty NHL seasons. Brimsek proved to be not as good as he was before the war, and after 1946 the Bruins lost in the first playoff round three consecutive years. After Brimsek was traded to the Blackhawks, the only remaining quality young player was forward [[Johnny Peirson]].

During the [[1948–49 NHL season|1948–49 season]], the original form of the "spoked-B" logo, with a small number "24" to the left of the capital B signifying the calendar year in the 20th century in which the Bruins team first played, and a similarly small "49" to the right of the "B",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportslogos.net/logo.php?id=6515|title=Boston Bruins Anniversary Logo|website=[[SportsLogos.net]]|date=September 12, 2014|access-date=May 13, 2009|archive-date=December 11, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211235722/http://www.sportslogos.net/logo.php?id=6515|url-status=live}}</ref> appeared on their home uniforms. The following season, the logo was modified into the basic "spoked-B" form that was to be used thereafter.

[[File:Walter A. Brown, Boston Celtics, 1960.jpg|thumb|upright|left|In 1951, [[Walter A. Brown]] purchased the Boston Bruins from [[Weston Adams]].]]
The 1950s began with Charles Adams' son [[Weston Adams|Weston]] facing financial trouble. He was forced to accept a buyout offer from [[Walter A. Brown]], the owner of the [[Boston Celtics]] and the Garden, in 1951.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 13, 1955 |title=Garden Re-elects Brown; to Buy All Bruin Stock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4djAAAAIBAJ&dq=walter+a.+brown+buys+bruins&pg=PA23&article_id=5461,931457 |access-date=May 11, 2024 |work=The Telegraph}}</ref> Although there were some instances of success (such as making the Stanley Cup Finals in [[1952–53 NHL season|1953]], [[1956–57 NHL season|1957]], and [[1957–58 NHL season|1958]], only to lose to the [[Montreal Canadiens]] each time), the Bruins mustered only four winning seasons between 1947 and 1967. They missed the playoffs eight consecutive years (1960 to 1967).

On January 18, 1958, the first-ever black NHL player, [[Willie O'Ree]], stepped onto the ice for the Bruins. He played in 45 games for the Bruins over the [[1957–58 NHL season|1957–58]] and [[1960–61 NHL season|1960–61]] seasons. The "Uke Line"—named for the [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] heritage of [[Johnny Bucyk]], [[Vic Stasiuk]], and [[Bronco Horvath]] – came to Boston in 1957 and enjoyed four productive offensive seasons, heralding, along with scoring stalwarts [[Don McKenney]] and [[Fleming Mackell]], the successful era of the late 1950s. There followed a long and difficult reconstruction period in the early to mid-1960s.