STORY BY
TIM RHYS
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY DANIELLE MARMER
causality line from the franchise ’ s groundbreaking decision last summer to make Danielle the first woman in history to have an on-ice coaching position in the NHL to the team ’ s achieving its winningest season in the history of the league a few short months later . If this seems implausible , look at the circumstantial evidence . The salient facts are that the Bruins had never done anything like this before — made a hire like this … or won like this . But in 2023 , they did both - and thereby became hockey ’ s posterchild for making one ’ s own luck . As Mr . Mauboussin writes , science shows that hockey teams must get lucky to win , and the Bruins got lucky more often than any NHL team ever had . And just how did that happen ? What was the one ice-ceiling-shattering , historymaking change the club made going into its record-breaking season , you ask ? The hiring of Danielle Marmer ,
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