The Boston Bruins keep stacking wins, and the rest of the league is starting to notice.
At 13-4-1, Boston has already turned its early-season run into one of the biggest stories in the 2026-27 NHL season. The odd part is that the Bruins have still managed to make their four losses look almost tidy: each time they’ve dropped two straight, they’ve stopped the slide before it could get any worse. That was the case again after an overtime loss to Dallas wrapped up a four-game West Coast trip, only for Boston to come home and hammer the Nashville Predators.
That kind of consistency is pushing the Black and Gold back up the national board. Lyle Fitzsimmons of Bleacher Report moved the Bruins to No. 2 in his latest NHL Power Rankings after dropping them to No. 4 last week following losses to the Carolina Hurricanes and St. Louis Blues at the end of October.
Three wins over the last seven days did the trick, including a 6-2 road win over the Pittsburgh Penguins and Sunday’s 4-1 victory over the Florida Panthers.
“The Bruins have been difficult to beat regardless of location so far in 2026-27 but it's been nearly impossible in Boston, where the team's Sunday defeat of Florida lifted it to 8-1-0 at home. Boston's 29 home wins last season were first in the NHL,'' wrote Fitzsimmons.
The Penguins game stood out as a loud road statement, especially in an arena that has given Boston trouble in recent years. Then came the Panthers, and the Bruins backed that up with another strong home performance.
Florida was missing some key pieces, including former Bruins captain Brad Marchand and Aleksander Barkov, but Boston still handled its business. The Bruins jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the opening period and got a 40-save effort from Jeremy Swayman in the win.
That said, power rankings in November don’t mean much on their own. What does matter is avoiding the kind of skid that can wreck a team’s standing in the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference later on. So far, Boston has done exactly that.
The Bruins are 2-0-0 in November, and the schedule stays home-heavy for now. Their next three games come against the Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota Wild, and Los Angeles Kings, a stretch that should tell plenty about Marco Sturm’s team by the middle of the month.
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