We here at Bruins Daily have opened the fan voting for our 64-player Greatest Bruin of All-Time tournament. Today’s matchups feature 16 of the best past and present centers in franchise history.
We’ll continue our tournament tomorrow featuring the club’s top 16 defensemen. You can check out the full bracket reveal from Monday here if you missed it.
Keep checking our Twitter account at @BruinsDaily for the next phase of voting, which begins on Tuesday. We’ve also embedded our polls here if you choose to vote directly on our website.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the Round 2 matchups of the first three brackets. But without further ado, here are the Round 1 center matchups:
Phil Esposito vs. Charlie Coyle
Adam Oates vs. Peter McNab
Joe Thornton vs. Marc Savard
Jean Ratelle vs. Fred Stanfield
David Krejci vs. Barry Pederson
Milt Schmidt vs. Cooney Weiland
Bill Cowley vs. Derek Sanderson
Patrice Bergeron vs. Ken Linseman
The winners of the center matchups will join the eight defensemen, wingers and goaltenders in the Round of 32.
Here’s a look at the upcoming second-round matchups featuring those 16 current and former Bruins.
Defensemen:
Bobby Orr vs. Art Ross
Ray Bourque vs. Torey Krug
Zdeno Chara vs. Mike Milbury
Eddie Shore vs. Brad Park
Wingers:
Johnny Bucyk vs. Terry O’Reilly
Ken Hodge vs. Rick Middleton
Brad Marchand vs. Dit Clapper
Cam Neely vs. David Pastrnak
Goaltenders:
Gerry Cheevers vs. Byron Dafoe
Tuukka Rask vs. Jaroslav Halak
Eddie Johnston vs. Tim Thomas
Andy Moog vs. Tiny Thompson
We’ll be back on Monday for a deeper outlook into the second-round matchups. The first phase of Round 2 voting begins on Tuesday featuring the top eight Bruins’ defensemen
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