The Boston Bruins have completed their 27th game of this 2010-11 NHL season, which marks their one-third completion of the year.

So, before they host the Philadelphia Flyers tonight at the TD Garden for Game 28, I decided to take a look back at the 2009-10 season — which ended so badly — and compare it, statistically, to this year’s club.

A few interesting notes below: Their man-games lost to injuries were cut in half; shorthanded goals-for have doubled; and home attendance is way up.

Overall record/home/away

2009-10:
14-8-5 (33 points)
8-5-3 home
6-3-2 away

2010-11:
16-8-3 (35 points)
7-5-2 home
9-3-1 away

Scoring first/allowing first goal per game:

2009-10:
9-1-0 scoring first
5-7-5 allowing first

2010-11:
12-0-1 scoring first
4-8-2 allowing first

Home attendance:

2009-10:
273,983 (17,124 Average; 8 Sellouts)

2010-11:
243,644 (17,403 Average; 13 Sellouts – Includes 10/9/10 premiere attendance of 15,299 at O2 Arena in Prague versus Phoenix)

Total shots-for/against:

2009-10:
831 (30.8 per game) 792 (29.3)

2010-11:
871 ((32.3 per) 911 (33.7)

Total goals-for/goals-against:

2009-10:
63 (2.33 goals-per game) 61 (2.26 GAA)

2010-11:
80 (2.96 goals-for) 51 (1.89 GAA)

Penalty minutes:

2009-10:
336

2010-11:
360

Shorthanded goals-for/against:

2009-10:
2 – 3

2010-11:
4 – 2

Power play opportunities/percentage:

2009-10:
16-for-94 (17%)

2010-11:
18-for-99 (18.2%)

Penalty-kill attempts/average:

2009-10:
15-of-103 (85.4%)

2010-11:
12-of-93 (87.1%)

Man-games lost to injuries:

2009-10:
42

2010-11:
20

Tuukka Rask:

2009-10: 7-2-2 record; 2.02 goals-against average; .929 save-percentage
2010-11: 2-6-1 record; 2.51 goals-against average; .928 save-percentage

Tim Thomas:

2009-10: 7-6-3 record; 2.27 goals-against average; .902 save-percentage
2010-11: 14-2-2 record; 1.49 goals-against average; .955 save-percentage