With Gerry Cheevers and several other legends from the “Big Bad Bruins” era on site for Saturday’s showdown by Boston and Montreal, Linus Ullmark paid tribute to the Hall-of-Fame netminder ...

Goaltender Gerry Cheevers was the man behind the mask who became the visual representation of the Big Bad Bruins of the 1970s. Cheevers became the “father of goalie mask art” back when ...

Cheevers’ stitches-plastered goaltending mask is arguably the most famous in the game’s history. He played for the Bruins in their heyday from 1965 to 1972, then again from 1975 to 1980. He ...

Cheevers, ever a gambler on the ice, coached more by hunch and feel. Advertisement Cheevers's Bruins one day played Neilson's Canucks at the Garden, and outshot Vancouver "by something like 55-8 ...

Say hello to Gerry Cheevers, the 79-year-old Stanley Cup-winning goalie of Bobby Orr’s Big Bad Bruins in the 1970s. "People that won’t wear the mask are underestimating the seriousness of this ...

Boston Bruins goalie Gerry Cheevers waves his stick in the air after the Bruins defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 4-0, at Boston Gardens, Thursday, May 19, 1978, Boston, Mass. Montreal leads the ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Brad Marchand's been called a lot of nicknames in his brief Bruins career, but former Bruins goaltender Gerry Cheevers offered a new one on Thursday. Speaking at the Legends Lunch ...

It seems preposterous that Rask has been around so long that he’s now registered more playoff victories than Gerry freakin’ Cheevers. But even if you’re in that camp that still wants to ...

Gerry Cheevers. "The job of the goaltender is to give your team a chance to win and Tuukka's just been marvelous at that." "This young goaltender is just plain sensational." Cheevers, who won the ...

The Boston Bruins drafted Cheevers in 1965. He was a member of both the 1970 and 1972 Stanley Cup winning teams. In 1972, he went undefeated in 33 consecutive games which is a NHL record that ...