Claim: TD Garden has held Bruins games.

The 2013 Stanley Cup Final , commonly known as the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals , was the championship series of the National Hockey League -LRB- NHL -RRB- season , and the conclusion of the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs . The Western Conference playoff champion Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Eastern Conference playoff champion Boston Bruins in six games to win their fifth Stanley Cup in team history . The Blackhawks also became just the eighth team to win both the Cup and the Presidents ' Trophy -LRB- as the team with the best regular season record -RRB- in the same season . Chicago 's Patrick Kane was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs .   Due to a lockout that both shortened and delayed the start of the regular season , the 2013 Cup Finals began on June 12 , and lasted until June 24 -- tying the lockout impacted for the latest in June that the Stanley Cup was awarded . This was the first Stanley Cup Final series between two Original Six teams since , and the seventh since its first expansion in 1967 . It also marked the first time these two teams have met in the Stanley Cup Final .  In game six of the finals , trailing the Boston Bruins 2 -- 1 with 76 seconds left in the third period , the Blackhawks scored two goals in 17 seconds to win the series 4 -- 2 . The win was the Blackhawks ' second in four years , after also claiming the title in . It was the first Finals series since 2004 to be tied after 2 games . It was also the first Stanley Cup Final since to feature three overtime games , including the fifth longest game in Finals history .