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Couldnt stand the influx of Bruin fans after their cup run so I pretty much root against them. There fans are the worst. I separate Boston sports fans and Bruins fans because they think the world revolves around the black and gold when the other franchises have been 10x more successful
 
Anyone who says Bruins should be shot.

Rangers, once the Whale departed
 
I see you quoted it before I realized auto-correct screwed up Giacomin.

I go back before Villemure. Terry Sawchuck was Eddie's backup until a drunken fistfight with his roommate (Ron Stewart).

Emile Francis built some talented but too small teams (later did something similar for the Whale) but some of his decisions (especially his treatment of Giacomin) were infuriating.
 
B1GEast said:
Anyone who says Bruins should be shot.

Rangers, once the Whale departed
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I don't mind the Bruins living in WesMass to be quite honest. Since moving up here I have stated my dislike for the Sox and Pats (the fans made it worst since 2000, been here since 90) but the Bruins fans are somewhat different. You don't see as many pink hats running around jumping on that bandwagon and ruining the face of the program. I actually enjoyed some of the Bruins series especially vs the Canadiens a couple times. Almost to the point of rooting for them quite honestly.
 
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Easy to become a Bolts fan....

Start by moving to the Tampa Bay area.....the rest comes pretty natural.
 
Yale, UConn, SHU, QU, in that order. Tried the Islanders after the Whalers left but didn't totally feel it. But in the playoffs, I'd follow the Isles, Senators and Preds.

FWIW, I think the Rangers will move their farm team to Bridgeport permanently.
 
Grew up on Long Island during the Islanders 4 straight Stanley Cups. I was 6 when they won in 80. Great start to my fandom, been disappointing ever since! :)
 
Tommyboy said:
Grew up on Long Island during the Islanders 4 straight Stanley Cups. I was 6 when they won in 80. Great start to my fandom, been disappointing ever since! :)
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God I hated those Icelander teams. They were excellent. But jeez I hated them.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
Emile Francis built some talented but too small teams (later did something similar for the Whale) but some of his decisions (especially his treatment of Giacomin) were infuriating.
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Yeah the Cat was a strange fellow.

I mentioned Hadfield above. I loved the G-A-G line. (Hadfield and Gilbert centered by Ratelle) how about the original chief? :-)
 
August_West said:
Eddie! My favorite player.

Vic Hadfield was a friend of my dad's.
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Hadfield was my favorite forward (favorite Ranger after Eddie and Brad Park) back then. At one time he was the only Ranger to score 50 goals in a season. The GAG line was awesome.
 
August_West said:
God I hated those Icelander teams. They were excellent. But jeez I hated them.
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I hated that they were willing to be physical and play D (the things the early 70's Rangers seldom did which killed them) and I hated even more that their entire fan base in the mid 70's were Ranger fans who jumped ship.
 
"Still, there is proof that the Rangers-to-Bridgeport scenario has been discussed within the offices of Harbor Yards Sports & Entertainment. The company registered the domain names CTRANGERS.COM and CONNECTICUTRANGERS.COM on January 2."

Do they have to call the team the "Rangers"?
 
mauconnfan said:
I don't mind the Bruins living in WesMass to be quite honest. Since moving up here I have stated my dislike for the Sox and Pats (the fans made it worst since 2000, been here since 90) but the Bruins fans are somewhat different. You don't see as many pink hats running around jumping on that bandwagon and ruining the face of the program. I actually enjoyed some of the Bruins series especially vs the Canadiens a couple times. Almost to the point of rooting for them quite honestly.
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Never really minded the Bruins and respected the hell out of their Orr/Esposito cup teams. What I could not stand were the trades (Ratelle & Park for Espo, Middleton for Hodge) that made the Bruins younger while we got old & out of shape.

Very high on my laundry list of critical errors the NHL has historically made is when the Bruins and Rangers were building what would have been a great rivalry (early to mid 1970's) the league shook up their divisions leaving Boston and New York to seldom play each other. Brilliant.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Never really minded the Bruins and respected the hell out of their Orr/Esposito cup teams. What I could not stand were the trades (Ratelle & Park for Espo, Middleton for Hodge) that made the Bruins younger while we got old & out of shape.

Very high on my laundry list of critical errors the NHL has historically made is when the Bruins and Rangers were building what would have been a great rivalry (early to mid 1970's) the league shook up their divisions leaving Boston and New York to seldom play each other. Brilliant.
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The league divided up the "original six" to market the league in new markets.
 
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August_West said:
Yeah the Cat was a strange fellow.

I mentioned Hadfield above. I loved the G-A-G line. (Hadfield and Gilbert centered by Ratelle) how about the original chief? :-)
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Johnny Bucyk.! Hell of a player (wish we had him).
 
Deepster said:
I stopped watching hockey the day the Whale said they were leaving town. I'm a sour old grouch about it and I don't care.
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Didn't you used to play?
 
Rangers are my team.

Mau, after my UConn days, I lived in LA 1981-86, attended Art Center College of Design. I worked briefly for photographer John Zimmerman who was the first to shoot the SI swimsuit girls. I was an assistant on a Lowenbrau Ad. Ron Duguay's 1st wife was the model leaning on a Corvette holding a Lowenbrau bottle. The shoot lasted all day with many skimpy wardrobe changes. I met with her for some testing shots. I did lots of that in those days. She was a beauty and the shots turned out great. When I returned to CT I saw a Lowenbrau poster from that shoot hanging over my bicycle mechanics work station. Due to pressure from MADD the bottle in her hand was replaced by a frisbee.

My son played hockey for many years. One of the AAA travel teams he played on from East Haven was run by several fathers who worked for the Whalers.

The Whalers became our second team.
 
Have not been able to pick up a team since the Whale left, I was thinking it would come to me in time...it hasn't. Been a Sox-Patriots-Celtics fan ever since I can remember, I would sooner become a Yankee fan then follow the Bruins.

The closest I came to accepting a team was a couple years ago when I caught a game in my company's box in MSG. Rod Gilbert was making the rounds to the corporate suites. It was the end of the 2d period by the time he got to our box and he reminded me of the baby delivery Stork in Bugs Bunny cartoons who could not stop hiccupping. Upon hearing a friend of mine played D1 soccer years ago, Rod called him a puuuuu$$$$$$ie, with his thick French-Canadian accent. I thought I had found my team........but it did not stick.
 
I remember going to a Whalers game against the Bruins, they had a lot of fans in the civic center, but it was a full house, and those damn Bruins fans cheered there team to victory after being down 3 to 1 for most of the game.

The whaler fans were so timid and couldn't match the intensity of Bruin fans. After that loss, I hated them even more
 
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After a certain team left Hartford I was in a hockey no mans land until I went local and became a Devil's fan. There was no chance of ever being a Rangers or Bruins guy so I got on board with Marty, the Scotts, Arnott, and my boy Patrick Elias. Never looked back and now I only wear Devil's gear.
(That other team, they're dead to me).

Now that UConn hockey is becoming more relevant I get my hockey fix all season at the XL.
How could you not be on the same side as the legendary David Puddy.
 
B1GEast said:
I remember going to a Whalers game against the Bruins...
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I watched an epic brawl in the 300's seats that started in Row 15 and ended up in Row 20 or so as each side worked to capture the higher ground. Sun Tzu was big back then.
One guy had his dress shirt ripped right off his back. All that was left on him were the cuffs. Now that's a quality shirt. I can still see they guy being hauled off by the cops with handcuffs carefully placed over those shirt cuffs.
 
Back on this, the one team I hated was the mid-1970's Flyers (Broad Street Bullies). What they played wasn't hockey, it was a rugby scrum on ice. The set the game back decades and the NHL stood by and let them do it.
 
Catsailor said:
Rangers are my team.

Mau, after my UConn days, I lived in LA 1981-86, attended Art Center College of Design. I worked briefly for photographer John Zimmerman who was the first to shoot the SI swimsuit girls. I was an assistant on a Lowenbrau Ad. Ron Duguay's 1st wife was the model leaning on a Corvette holding a Lowenbrau bottle. The shoot lasted all day with many skimpy wardrobe changes. I met with her for some testing shots. I did lots of that in those days. She was a beauty and the shots turned out great. When I returned to CT I saw a Lowenbrau poster from that shoot hanging over my bicycle mechanics work station. Due to pressure from MADD the bottle in her hand was replaced by a frisbee.

My son played hockey for many years. One of the AAA travel teams he played on from East Haven was run by several fathers who worked for the Whalers.

The Whalers became our second team.
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Great story thanks for sharing!
 
Chose the Devils after the Whalers left when I was a kid. Worked out pretty well for awhile, not so great lately.
 
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