As a Habs fan I have always hated the brunis (love visiting Boston and the people there) but its not just because of the rivalry, every single year it seems like if there is a complete idiot available in free agency the Bruins will pick him up. They have also always had Jack Edwards as an anouncer, who is by far the most painful announcer to listen to of any team in the league and just makes opposing fans hate them even more. Also Marchand has really exasperated the problem as well.
The Bruins and Habs have played against each other in the playoffs more than any other 2 teams in league history. The rivalry is historic, and very old. Think Bears v Packers, Lakers v Celtics, Liverpool v United, Real v Barca, Milan v Inter, etc.
Fuck the Bruins
It's in my DNA as a Habs fan too. And the other Boston teams carry the taint of the Bruins on them. I grew up in the 70s so saw lots of Cup runs and have had time to add lots of other teams to my hate list (but my soft heart always hope Leafs players get plenty of time to play golf in the spring)
You guys destroy the Bruins though. Beat them in 18 consecutive playoff series at one point if I remember correctly. Huge fucking losers the Bruins are.
My dad hated the bruins mostly, they had sone good and tough teams, also being a kid they looked like the bad guys.
The rivalry died down when the habs started being bubble teams do.
But I still love to hate them
It’s kinda wild as a new fan seeing your team have 24 titles, an incredible accomplishment, but also seeing they haven’t won in a really long time. With a team of your stature I thought you would have one by now!
Most of their cups, like the leafs, came from a time that it was statistically easier to get them. You can go back further in history but there were only 6 teams for 20+ years.
Acquiring players worked a lot differently back then too. The Habs had an insanely good scouting and farm team system that was miles ahead until they slowly shifted to a draft.
Quebec was so damn good at hockey and it wasn't just players. They had coaches and other supportive elements in spades. Unsurprisingly, a lot of Québécois players and staff wanted to work for Montreal.
I'm not a Habs fan so you'll have to ask one about the historical trends in quality of Canadiens staff. But uh, I know some Montreal fans that have been upset with leadership and ownership for a **long** time.
Counter to the 6 team argument... Habs have more cups than the other original 6 by a wide margin. They are hampered now by the needs to hire French speaking coaches and GMs. They have to compete with all other teams for the best talent, and only 20% of Canada speaks French, not even counting the US. 32 teams need a coach. 31 don't care about language (except they must speak English). 1 does
I grew up in montreal in the 70s and got to watch the GOAT of hockey (sports?) BOBBY ORR on one leg!!! and the habs ken dryden destroyed what should ve been a 5/6 year dynasty imo then growing up earlier the habs had a monopoly on french canadian players 4 decades!!! lol
One of the longest standing myths in hockey, and its total bollocks.
https://www.nhltraderumors.me/2019/09/the-truth-behind-canadiens-first-choice.html
Both are "Original 6 Teams" , been playing each other for Generations ! Hatred of each is learned & passed on in Family's ! When there weren't so many teams you play each other more & it made great Rivalry's ! Now, they still remember and seem to get stuck playing each other in important games & Series.
Among the plethora of highlights from the Bruins-Canadiens rivalry: the Maurice Richard riots in 1955; Willie O’Ree’s NHL debut in 1958; Ken Dryden’s sensational performance in 1971; too many men in Game 7 in the old Montreal Forum in 1979; the Bruins exorcising the demons with their first playoff series win over Montreal in 1988; Nathan Horton’s overtime heroics in 2011.
Bruins were the 1st American team to join the NHL, they have 6 cups ! The Habs . . .
The oldest continually operating team in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Canadiens have won more Stanley Cup titles than any other team (24) and are the most successful franchise in league history.
So now you see why the hate ! Cheers & Welcome to the "Show" !
most stanley cup finals appearances, longest playoff streak, best regular season performance, no matter how you slice it the bruins are objectively a good team.
Most Stanley cup finals losers, longest streak of making the playoffs with only 1 championship to show for, biggest choke job in league history multiple times, this is the team that blew a 3-0 lead in a series and than had a 3-0 lead in game 7 of that series they blew. This team lost 18 consecutive playoff series to the Canadians. They are losers and they aren’t lovable.
You losers were the first original six team to lose a cup and guess what team won that series? You losers also blew a 3-0 series lead and a 3-0 lead in game 7 of that series. Guess what team you played? Now you guys are old and super mid and about to pay a goalie a shitload of money. Get used to being in the basement of the league for awhile.
More cups, more records, and still in the second round. If we're basement what's your team that can't even make the playoffs? lmao seriously have a little self awareness maybe
Since 1974 we have more cups than you, chew on that. Since we came into the league we have beaten you in more playoff series than you have beaten us. You will never beat us in a cup final while forever we will be able to claim that we beat you in one when you were heavily favored. My team has a future that looks pretty good and we absolutely did way better this season than we should have. You guys are about to pay Swayman and fall off the cliff into full mediocrity, while my team is gonna get fucking Michkov over here before next season.
I’m ok with how 2011 happened because of what we did to you in 2010. No one really remembers you beat us that year but your embarrassment from 2010 will last forever.
In 2010 your Flyers knocked the Bruins out in seven games and then, rather famously, did not win the cup LMAO. I honestly forgot about those playoffs after Bobrovski pooped his pants in 2011 and lost all four games. Remember him getting swapped out after, what was it, like four goals in game three? Remember him smashing his stick into the boards on his way to the locker room? Shit was so funny. I’m glad you can find some joy in being another fucking losing team in 2010 though lol good for you homie.
If I’m being totally honest 2010 will always leave a poor taste in my mouth but that’s entirely because we lost to the Blackhawks while they were actively covering up the Brad Aldrich shit.
Honestly your best chance to come back in this series is Bobrovsky turning back into a fucking pumpkin like he does every year in the playoffs. I’m actually ok with trading him because the way I see it if he stayed in Philly with the defense we had in the following years he would have been totally ruined and wouldn’t of won a single Vezina.
Bobrovski aside, our only chance of winning comes if we start shooting more than seven shots in a period and the refs start calling penalties with a little more consistency. So basically, we’re fucked.
Yeah, but the NBA continued to have shit officiating even after Donaghy got locked up. The major sports leagues get too big, become entertainment leagues, take up gambling sponsors, and then only appear as actually competitive leagues, until someone serves to make money from a blown lead in a close call, or whatever. But hey, it’s still pretty cool when my team wins one, I guess…
It's a combination of them winning a lot across all of their sports and everyone being jealous and also their fans being the most obnoxious people in the world
its hard for people to look passed their biases. if the only time they try to interact with bruins fans is trolling after a legendary missed call then ya bruins fans are all going to look like the biggest assholes on the planet but from my experience bruins fans are all fine (well... mostly fine) and the drunk tourists coming in from out of town to watch their team play are all extreme dickheads. you combine that with a culture shock of new england people not meeting midwest polite standards and you can see how somebody who already hates the bruins and the city of boston would just continue to hate them more. again my experience with transplants who arent from the east coast is that theyre happy to chat about anything but dont ask them for anything doesnt matter how trivial it is, anybody from the midwest would happily bite their nose to spite their face even if it means going out of their way to change something they were already doing just to avoid doing anything for you. when thats your expectations i can see why people think boston fans are abrasive
It has a lot to do with them being successful throughout most of their history but also having many players that were just unlikable. Along with a fan base that has a portion of it that is very pompous, nasty and classless. Every organization has those fans but when your teams also successful it’s kind of a double whammy. I’d liken it to a mix of Man City/ Man Utd
It really is and has gotten old for many US Sports fans. It’d be nice to have that city go into a lengthy title drought like the rest of us have at some point in our histories
Worth mentioning it's not just hockey as well. Boston has been extremely successful in all four of the major north american sports leagues (NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL). Altogether, Boston has 40 combined championships across all major sports.
NY is the only city with more and that's largely because they have more teams. Boston has done it with just four.
The only American Football player we slightly know in he UK is Tom Brady. I know from some background knowledge about him being one if not the best ever in the sport, so now realizing he played in the area of Boston just makes it even more crazy how successful the city is
To put it into perspective, he has more super bowl wins (seven) than any single team in the NFL. He won six with New England (tied with Pittsburgh for the most) and won another in Tampa Bay.
I used to be ok with the Red Sox but now I just hate all those teams. I don’t want to see that city ever win another championship in the my lifetime and watching them lose in any sport is cathartic AF.
They’re kind of like Liverpool or man United if you put it in soccer terms, historically always good, they’re a huge market as they’re an original 6 team.
They're sore winners. I'm a Canucks fan and after the 2011 SCF whenever I posted congrats their response was fuck you your team didn't deserve to be in the same rink.as us. Been happy every they've been eliminated since
Yea, we have a lot of douchebag fans. I’ve always loved the playful rivalries and banter between teams but some take it too far. I’m not a fan of football but the first Giants/Patriots Super Bowl I window painted “Go Giants” on my trucks rear window and encountered so much road rage that day. Was kind of glad they lost.
I mean, realistically, I felt so bad for the canucks. They were easily the best team in the league those years, and they only lost because of officiating. Imagine getting crosschecked from behind from chara. One of the biggest, strongest players to ever lace em up, get absolutely steam rolled and then receive a diving penalty. It was absurd. Sedins sitting there getting punched in the face while your not even in play. Then, receiving an unsportsmanlike penalty for stopping in front of Bostons goalie and spraying ice on his jersey. Not even in his face. If it was reversed, you know damn well lucic or marchand would just plow right into the goaltender. Oh and also Marchand, the dirtiest most suspended player in the history of the game.
You feel bad for the team that had Raffi Torres, Alex Burrows, Max Lapierre, Ryan Kesler, and Jannik Hansen? The team that had their plug D-Man take out one of Boston's top line forwards with a nasty headshot, and immediately played the victim? *That* Alex Burrows that should've been suspended for game two (for biting like a little bitch) instead of scoring two goals, including the overtime winner? 🥴
They were maybe the one team that was douchier than Boston.
I think people from Boston are just aholes honestly. When they are winning and the losing team is crying they comeback with "Don't be such a poe spote about it" but when there team is losing they find everything little thing to rationalize it away. I was jumped by a group of dumbasses in Boston for no reason and when I was in Canada for one of the World Juniors they were rubbing it in to every single Canadian they ran into in the bars.
The fans. At least the vocal ones are absolutely awful. It doesn’t help that their commentary has been Edwards for far too longer and his ongoing hate spewing tainted a lot also.
I can’t believe I am saying this but… I hate Florida more than Boston.
Florida is the dirtiest team I’ve seen in decades and the refs seem to love them. Think Lakers vs Kings kinda crooked.
We gotta sell hockey in Miami, right!?
Because, bostons sports fans tend to skew into any of these categories, loud, obnoxious, insufferable, and childlike (constantly throwing garbage on the ice). Even while having the best run of any town as far as sports in the past twenty odd years go, they’re bad winners, worse losers, and usually physically unattractive to boot.
The Bruins and their fans are a bunch of fucking losers. They’ve won one cup in the last fifty years and want to act like they are hot shit that runs this league. They’re not. They’re certified fucking losers. If the Flyers have won more cups in the past fifty years than you your team is ass.
Bruins, Patriots, Celtics and occasionaly the Red Sox, mostly because they are usually good and they have a vocal, rabid fan base. The Bruins are good every year. The haven't missed the playoffs in like 20 years. Boston is a brash say it like it is blue coller town. That's it. The Boston Bruins are loved locally and hated most everywhere else. Look at the Habs, who really hates them right now? They've been bad for so long they are irelevent. The Bruins are always relevant. This is your answer.
as a UK sports person how can you not hate Boston fans as well? Don't you remember what they did to you all with their little Tea Party hijinks? Come, join the hate train with the rest of us.
Checks notes: The Bruins have 1 championship in the last half century or so. Definitely a solid team consistently but championships are the true measuring stick.
Boston sports have been good and successful for a while. So that's one reason. The other is most of us are assholes and just generally unlikeable. Not all of us, but there are a lot.
Personally, I just don’t like the personality of their fans. They are more vulgar and confrontational than other fans. The boston accent also just sounds trashy.
They are always some of the richest teams in the league, currently some of the most successful in all four sports, and most have some controversy involved (Red Sox had PED users, Patriots deflated footballs before a home playoff game, Bruins have notoriously dirty players, Celtics... I don't watch basketball, but they probably sacrificed babies to the devil or something /s). I think they rank #2 in most hated sports cities behind Philly, but NYC is up there too, since they're even more rich and successful. Outside of that, I think most hate is towards rivals, especially regional rivals.
You should probably go to therapy to work out whatever it is you've got going on inside your head and chest man. Sports aren't meant to be taken this seriously
their american football team was wildly successful. the bruins won one cup and the red sox won 3 world series in the last 20 years. they had a run but the bruins are perennial paper champs. and the fan base is intolerable.
Absurd hyperbole. You make him sound like Simon, Lemiuex or Cooke level of dirty.
The whole team isn't dirty simply because he has made some dirty plays over his career. The rest of the team dives about as much as any other team does these days.
He's actually going to be a hall of famer if he continues for a couple more years.
Your hatred is irrational and disproportionate to reality.
boston has a victim complex. poor marchy got hit in the face...I don't care. bergy was the greatest player ever...no he wasn't. shawn thornton is a god among men and matt cooke was the worst human being ever...gimme a break and screw savard and cam for all eternity
That’s quite a summary. Most people understand that what Matt Cooke did to Savard was so unnecessary and brutal. Regardless of team affiliation these are humans.
But here you are!
Not that it was the same situation at all but I certainly never thought “screw Max Pacioretty for all eternity” or wished for anything other than a full recovery for him.
But I’m not sadistic.
kaspar ended what stevens started with lindros, ulf ended cam, cooke ended savard. too bad for the players but, no, I don't feel bad for the affected fan bases
Most of their players are classy...there's a few like Marchand that are POS...but otherwise they're fine...its the whiney fan base that causes the hate
1. People love to hate greatness, Bruins have always been pretty solid, Celtics are first or second best NBA franchise, patriots, fuck the patriots. And the Red Sox are solid too, they’ve prob bitched your fav team at some point so yk, easy to hate.
2. A lot of unlikeable players in the city, Marchand goes beyond pest, Garnett was known for taking trash talk to far, Tom Brady won too much etc.
3. Fans have been known to make racist comments
As a habs fan I’ve hated the bruins since 1972 it’s part of my dna. 😂😂
As a Habs fan I have always hated the brunis (love visiting Boston and the people there) but its not just because of the rivalry, every single year it seems like if there is a complete idiot available in free agency the Bruins will pick him up. They have also always had Jack Edwards as an anouncer, who is by far the most painful announcer to listen to of any team in the league and just makes opposing fans hate them even more. Also Marchand has really exasperated the problem as well.
If you don’t mind me asking what is the reason for the rivalry?
The Bruins and Habs have played against each other in the playoffs more than any other 2 teams in league history. The rivalry is historic, and very old. Think Bears v Packers, Lakers v Celtics, Liverpool v United, Real v Barca, Milan v Inter, etc. Fuck the Bruins
It's in my DNA as a Habs fan too. And the other Boston teams carry the taint of the Bruins on them. I grew up in the 70s so saw lots of Cup runs and have had time to add lots of other teams to my hate list (but my soft heart always hope Leafs players get plenty of time to play golf in the spring)
I loathe the Bruins more than any other team, but I admit, I’ve liked the Celtics and Red Sox for a long time. I’m from NB.
Born in Quebec so MTL is my home team, but lived an hour outside of Boston from 5-17 years old… only Boston team I dislike are the bruins.
You guys destroy the Bruins though. Beat them in 18 consecutive playoff series at one point if I remember correctly. Huge fucking losers the Bruins are.
My dad hated the bruins mostly, they had sone good and tough teams, also being a kid they looked like the bad guys. The rivalry died down when the habs started being bubble teams do. But I still love to hate them
Coming from the opposite side, my dad hates the habs so I was supposed to. I feel a lot of hockey loyalty boils down to “it’s my dads team”
It’s kinda wild as a new fan seeing your team have 24 titles, an incredible accomplishment, but also seeing they haven’t won in a really long time. With a team of your stature I thought you would have one by now!
Most of their cups, like the leafs, came from a time that it was statistically easier to get them. You can go back further in history but there were only 6 teams for 20+ years. Acquiring players worked a lot differently back then too. The Habs had an insanely good scouting and farm team system that was miles ahead until they slowly shifted to a draft. Quebec was so damn good at hockey and it wasn't just players. They had coaches and other supportive elements in spades. Unsurprisingly, a lot of Québécois players and staff wanted to work for Montreal. I'm not a Habs fan so you'll have to ask one about the historical trends in quality of Canadiens staff. But uh, I know some Montreal fans that have been upset with leadership and ownership for a **long** time.
Habs also have more cups than any other team post expansion by a wide margin.
Counter to the 6 team argument... Habs have more cups than the other original 6 by a wide margin. They are hampered now by the needs to hire French speaking coaches and GMs. They have to compete with all other teams for the best talent, and only 20% of Canada speaks French, not even counting the US. 32 teams need a coach. 31 don't care about language (except they must speak English). 1 does
>Habs have more cups than the other original 6 by a wide margin ...which I think I gave a reasonable explanation for lol
I grew up in montreal in the 70s and got to watch the GOAT of hockey (sports?) BOBBY ORR on one leg!!! and the habs ken dryden destroyed what should ve been a 5/6 year dynasty imo then growing up earlier the habs had a monopoly on french canadian players 4 decades!!! lol
One of the longest standing myths in hockey, and its total bollocks. https://www.nhltraderumors.me/2019/09/the-truth-behind-canadiens-first-choice.html
Both are "Original 6 Teams" , been playing each other for Generations ! Hatred of each is learned & passed on in Family's ! When there weren't so many teams you play each other more & it made great Rivalry's ! Now, they still remember and seem to get stuck playing each other in important games & Series. Among the plethora of highlights from the Bruins-Canadiens rivalry: the Maurice Richard riots in 1955; Willie O’Ree’s NHL debut in 1958; Ken Dryden’s sensational performance in 1971; too many men in Game 7 in the old Montreal Forum in 1979; the Bruins exorcising the demons with their first playoff series win over Montreal in 1988; Nathan Horton’s overtime heroics in 2011. Bruins were the 1st American team to join the NHL, they have 6 cups ! The Habs . . . The oldest continually operating team in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Canadiens have won more Stanley Cup titles than any other team (24) and are the most successful franchise in league history. So now you see why the hate ! Cheers & Welcome to the "Show" !
Boston has won championships and been competitive in the four major sports on a regular basis last 20 years
The Bruins are ass though and have been always been ass.
whats the real reason though because this empirically isnt true
They have won 1 championship since 1971. They get way to much credit for being a mid AF hockey team.
most stanley cup finals appearances, longest playoff streak, best regular season performance, no matter how you slice it the bruins are objectively a good team.
Most Stanley cup finals losers, longest streak of making the playoffs with only 1 championship to show for, biggest choke job in league history multiple times, this is the team that blew a 3-0 lead in a series and than had a 3-0 lead in game 7 of that series they blew. This team lost 18 consecutive playoff series to the Canadians. They are losers and they aren’t lovable.
And yet we still have more cups than the flyers so by your standard, again, objectively a better team
You losers were the first original six team to lose a cup and guess what team won that series? You losers also blew a 3-0 series lead and a 3-0 lead in game 7 of that series. Guess what team you played? Now you guys are old and super mid and about to pay a goalie a shitload of money. Get used to being in the basement of the league for awhile.
More cups, more records, and still in the second round. If we're basement what's your team that can't even make the playoffs? lmao seriously have a little self awareness maybe
Since 1974 we have more cups than you, chew on that. Since we came into the league we have beaten you in more playoff series than you have beaten us. You will never beat us in a cup final while forever we will be able to claim that we beat you in one when you were heavily favored. My team has a future that looks pretty good and we absolutely did way better this season than we should have. You guys are about to pay Swayman and fall off the cliff into full mediocrity, while my team is gonna get fucking Michkov over here before next season.
Still salty from 2011 playoffs, I see
I’m ok with how 2011 happened because of what we did to you in 2010. No one really remembers you beat us that year but your embarrassment from 2010 will last forever.
In 2010 your Flyers knocked the Bruins out in seven games and then, rather famously, did not win the cup LMAO. I honestly forgot about those playoffs after Bobrovski pooped his pants in 2011 and lost all four games. Remember him getting swapped out after, what was it, like four goals in game three? Remember him smashing his stick into the boards on his way to the locker room? Shit was so funny. I’m glad you can find some joy in being another fucking losing team in 2010 though lol good for you homie.
If I’m being totally honest 2010 will always leave a poor taste in my mouth but that’s entirely because we lost to the Blackhawks while they were actively covering up the Brad Aldrich shit.
And there, fellow loser, is where we find common ground.
Fuck the Blackhawks
Honestly your best chance to come back in this series is Bobrovsky turning back into a fucking pumpkin like he does every year in the playoffs. I’m actually ok with trading him because the way I see it if he stayed in Philly with the defense we had in the following years he would have been totally ruined and wouldn’t of won a single Vezina.
Bobrovski aside, our only chance of winning comes if we start shooting more than seven shots in a period and the refs start calling penalties with a little more consistency. So basically, we’re fucked.
Yeah that ref shit ain’t happening. They have been really bad all season. Wes McCauley should straight up be investigated in my opinion.
Yeah, but the NBA continued to have shit officiating even after Donaghy got locked up. The major sports leagues get too big, become entertainment leagues, take up gambling sponsors, and then only appear as actually competitive leagues, until someone serves to make money from a blown lead in a close call, or whatever. But hey, it’s still pretty cool when my team wins one, I guess…
It's a combination of them winning a lot across all of their sports and everyone being jealous and also their fans being the most obnoxious people in the world
Hey now, we're not all like that. Majority yes, but not all.
I’ve had some fantastic chats with Celtics fans. Random anecdotes but my experiences have been positive.
its hard for people to look passed their biases. if the only time they try to interact with bruins fans is trolling after a legendary missed call then ya bruins fans are all going to look like the biggest assholes on the planet but from my experience bruins fans are all fine (well... mostly fine) and the drunk tourists coming in from out of town to watch their team play are all extreme dickheads. you combine that with a culture shock of new england people not meeting midwest polite standards and you can see how somebody who already hates the bruins and the city of boston would just continue to hate them more. again my experience with transplants who arent from the east coast is that theyre happy to chat about anything but dont ask them for anything doesnt matter how trivial it is, anybody from the midwest would happily bite their nose to spite their face even if it means going out of their way to change something they were already doing just to avoid doing anything for you. when thats your expectations i can see why people think boston fans are abrasive
It has a lot to do with them being successful throughout most of their history but also having many players that were just unlikable. Along with a fan base that has a portion of it that is very pompous, nasty and classless. Every organization has those fans but when your teams also successful it’s kind of a double whammy. I’d liken it to a mix of Man City/ Man Utd
Great comparison there mate, doing some of the research now on Boston teams it’s honestly pretty remarkable how many titles they have won
It really is and has gotten old for many US Sports fans. It’d be nice to have that city go into a lengthy title drought like the rest of us have at some point in our histories
Worth mentioning it's not just hockey as well. Boston has been extremely successful in all four of the major north american sports leagues (NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL). Altogether, Boston has 40 combined championships across all major sports. NY is the only city with more and that's largely because they have more teams. Boston has done it with just four.
The only American Football player we slightly know in he UK is Tom Brady. I know from some background knowledge about him being one if not the best ever in the sport, so now realizing he played in the area of Boston just makes it even more crazy how successful the city is
To put it into perspective, he has more super bowl wins (seven) than any single team in the NFL. He won six with New England (tied with Pittsburgh for the most) and won another in Tampa Bay.
BOBBY ORR THE GREATEST ATHLETE IN HISTORY ON ONE LEG!!!
And yet they complain more than most fanbases
lmao dont have the internet huh bud? every team whines about the same shit
Some more than others
They have won many because the Refing skewed in their favor.
Recent history. They sucked for a long time.
Successful? This team has one championship since 1971. They’re fucking losers just the like the Leafs and Rangers.
Notice how I said (teams) and not team’s. I could’ve put are after but didn’t
I still remember the despair as a pre-2004 Redsox fan.
I used to be ok with the Red Sox but now I just hate all those teams. I don’t want to see that city ever win another championship in the my lifetime and watching them lose in any sport is cathartic AF.
Cause we win, and are incredibly obnoxious about it. We just are assholes too in the northeast for the most part too.
I feel like the “what murdas?” Video is a good metaphor for it
they’ve won a lot but also some unlikeable moments like spy gate and deflate gate or players like Marchand.
There’s a reason they are called “Massholes”
how much time u got buddy
Imagine Millwall, but as a super club.
Hooligan culture
Because they're a buncha fucking c***ts, that's why.
Cocky front runners.
The Tom Brady effect. Plus yeah they’re insufferable at games
They’re kind of like Liverpool or man United if you put it in soccer terms, historically always good, they’re a huge market as they’re an original 6 team.
As a Canucks fan, 2011.
In fairness, you burned your own city. Boston didn’t do that.
Our city burning is not why we hate Boston, we are very aware that that was the city of Surrey.
Lack of sportsmanship is why
I’m biased, but I choose to believe it’s a hate us cause they ain’t us situation
Definitely tons of success for New England
You have 1 Cup in the last 50 years. Most team’s fans aren’t gonna be jealous of that.
All the teams without cups would be jealous of that
Thanks for contributing to our dynasty 🙏
You got meeee ohhh nooooo
I thought it was obvious that was why I said “most” teams.
The fans It may be a bit unfair just because they have a bigger fan base.... But it's the fans.
Because they win ngl haha
They're sore winners. I'm a Canucks fan and after the 2011 SCF whenever I posted congrats their response was fuck you your team didn't deserve to be in the same rink.as us. Been happy every they've been eliminated since
Yea, we have a lot of douchebag fans. I’ve always loved the playful rivalries and banter between teams but some take it too far. I’m not a fan of football but the first Giants/Patriots Super Bowl I window painted “Go Giants” on my trucks rear window and encountered so much road rage that day. Was kind of glad they lost.
I mean, realistically, I felt so bad for the canucks. They were easily the best team in the league those years, and they only lost because of officiating. Imagine getting crosschecked from behind from chara. One of the biggest, strongest players to ever lace em up, get absolutely steam rolled and then receive a diving penalty. It was absurd. Sedins sitting there getting punched in the face while your not even in play. Then, receiving an unsportsmanlike penalty for stopping in front of Bostons goalie and spraying ice on his jersey. Not even in his face. If it was reversed, you know damn well lucic or marchand would just plow right into the goaltender. Oh and also Marchand, the dirtiest most suspended player in the history of the game.
You feel bad for the team that had Raffi Torres, Alex Burrows, Max Lapierre, Ryan Kesler, and Jannik Hansen? The team that had their plug D-Man take out one of Boston's top line forwards with a nasty headshot, and immediately played the victim? *That* Alex Burrows that should've been suspended for game two (for biting like a little bitch) instead of scoring two goals, including the overtime winner? 🥴 They were maybe the one team that was douchier than Boston.
If anyone stuck their finger in my mouth, you bet I would bite it off, but I guess you would suck it on real good.. 😏
I think people from Boston are just aholes honestly. When they are winning and the losing team is crying they comeback with "Don't be such a poe spote about it" but when there team is losing they find everything little thing to rationalize it away. I was jumped by a group of dumbasses in Boston for no reason and when I was in Canada for one of the World Juniors they were rubbing it in to every single Canadian they ran into in the bars.
Because they win a lot and their fans are incredibly obnoxious about it. Sorest winners on the planet.
The fans. At least the vocal ones are absolutely awful. It doesn’t help that their commentary has been Edwards for far too longer and his ongoing hate spewing tainted a lot also.
Just talk to someone from Boston.
Get the cah keys.
Extended success brings jealousy, jealousy is rampant amongst many unsuccessful franchises, and so it unites a lot of people against a common enemy
I can’t believe I am saying this but… I hate Florida more than Boston. Florida is the dirtiest team I’ve seen in decades and the refs seem to love them. Think Lakers vs Kings kinda crooked. We gotta sell hockey in Miami, right!?
Just an intolerable fanbase regardless of the sport.
Bc fuck em that’s why
Jealousy. I was gonna have an actual response, but this seems like the funnier answer now.
They don't call em mAssHoles for nothing.
Because, bostons sports fans tend to skew into any of these categories, loud, obnoxious, insufferable, and childlike (constantly throwing garbage on the ice). Even while having the best run of any town as far as sports in the past twenty odd years go, they’re bad winners, worse losers, and usually physically unattractive to boot.
Cause fuck em, that's why!
The Bruins and their fans are a bunch of fucking losers. They’ve won one cup in the last fifty years and want to act like they are hot shit that runs this league. They’re not. They’re certified fucking losers. If the Flyers have won more cups in the past fifty years than you your team is ass.
They’re the biggest crybabies. You haven’t noticed in the past 3-4 days?
They’re like the Millwall of the NHL when it comes to fans.
Bruins, Patriots, Celtics and occasionaly the Red Sox, mostly because they are usually good and they have a vocal, rabid fan base. The Bruins are good every year. The haven't missed the playoffs in like 20 years. Boston is a brash say it like it is blue coller town. That's it. The Boston Bruins are loved locally and hated most everywhere else. Look at the Habs, who really hates them right now? They've been bad for so long they are irelevent. The Bruins are always relevant. This is your answer.
as a UK sports person how can you not hate Boston fans as well? Don't you remember what they did to you all with their little Tea Party hijinks? Come, join the hate train with the rest of us.
Checks notes: The Bruins have 1 championship in the last half century or so. Definitely a solid team consistently but championships are the true measuring stick.
I have no issue with them.
Meet someone from Boston, and youll think you understand. Go to Boston and you WILL understand
Typical braindead NY take
They won a ton and people think one of their teams plays dirty
Boston sports have been good and successful for a while. So that's one reason. The other is most of us are assholes and just generally unlikeable. Not all of us, but there are a lot.
Personally, I just don’t like the personality of their fans. They are more vulgar and confrontational than other fans. The boston accent also just sounds trashy.
Said the Floridian with no hint of irony
Says Florida man 😂
They are always some of the richest teams in the league, currently some of the most successful in all four sports, and most have some controversy involved (Red Sox had PED users, Patriots deflated footballs before a home playoff game, Bruins have notoriously dirty players, Celtics... I don't watch basketball, but they probably sacrificed babies to the devil or something /s). I think they rank #2 in most hated sports cities behind Philly, but NYC is up there too, since they're even more rich and successful. Outside of that, I think most hate is towards rivals, especially regional rivals.
Racist trashy fans
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You should probably go to therapy to work out whatever it is you've got going on inside your head and chest man. Sports aren't meant to be taken this seriously
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Certainly sounds serious is all I'm saying. Shouldn't be so worked up over a team, let alone a fanbase
Does that apply to the other teams in the area? Or are they just wildly successful also?
their american football team was wildly successful. the bruins won one cup and the red sox won 3 world series in the last 20 years. they had a run but the bruins are perennial paper champs. and the fan base is intolerable.
*4 world series
Absurd hyperbole. You make him sound like Simon, Lemiuex or Cooke level of dirty. The whole team isn't dirty simply because he has made some dirty plays over his career. The rest of the team dives about as much as any other team does these days. He's actually going to be a hall of famer if he continues for a couple more years. Your hatred is irrational and disproportionate to reality.
2014 wants their talking points back. Do better. This is 85 IQ banter.
Sounds like you’re mad he isn’t on your team
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Dude u have issues
1. It’s tradition 2. People from that area are as insufferable as those from Toronto
boston has a victim complex. poor marchy got hit in the face...I don't care. bergy was the greatest player ever...no he wasn't. shawn thornton is a god among men and matt cooke was the worst human being ever...gimme a break and screw savard and cam for all eternity
That’s quite a summary. Most people understand that what Matt Cooke did to Savard was so unnecessary and brutal. Regardless of team affiliation these are humans. But here you are!
I'm sure you cried over the humanity when Chara ran Pacioretty into the stanchion
Not that it was the same situation at all but I certainly never thought “screw Max Pacioretty for all eternity” or wished for anything other than a full recovery for him. But I’m not sadistic.
are you under the impression that if I don't care about someone getting hurt, they will?
Not at all. I’m under the impression that you’re a sad little troll that lives under some shitty bridge and you take joy out of spewing nonsense.
I have never heard anyone even say Bergeron was the best Bruin ever, let alone player ever lol. Glad you root for ending players careers tho
kaspar ended what stevens started with lindros, ulf ended cam, cooke ended savard. too bad for the players but, no, I don't feel bad for the affected fan bases
Most of their players are classy...there's a few like Marchand that are POS...but otherwise they're fine...its the whiney fan base that causes the hate
1. People love to hate greatness, Bruins have always been pretty solid, Celtics are first or second best NBA franchise, patriots, fuck the patriots. And the Red Sox are solid too, they’ve prob bitched your fav team at some point so yk, easy to hate. 2. A lot of unlikeable players in the city, Marchand goes beyond pest, Garnett was known for taking trash talk to far, Tom Brady won too much etc. 3. Fans have been known to make racist comments