Anyone else dislike Pens more than Habs??

[Kitchener Boy]

Habs and ISIS top the list for most hated.

Not much else is close.

 

[vjcsmoke]

Habs. Most HATED AINEC.

Playing against Pittsburgh on a regular basis only came recently with the realignment.

Pittsburgh is a very skilled team these days. We don't play them often but I still remember us crushing them in the playoffs when our defense actually was good back in the day. I don't consider them as rivals.

 

[MtlBoxFan]

Different kind of hate.
Habs hate is about rivalry, style of play, and losing to them too much over the years despite playing better.
Penguin hate is about deliberate career ending hits

 

[chizzler]

I usually hate the Pens, but I have no problem with them winning it this year. They deserve it. Turned it around when Sullivan showed up. Bought into his system. He brought his guys from the AHL. No problems.

 

[DKH]

I usually hate the Pens, but I have no problem with them winning it this year. They deserve it. Turned it around when Sullivan showed up. Bought into his system. He brought his guys from the AHL. No problems.

Years ago i used to get into it all the time with posters including the legendary Don Cherry over Sullivan. One of the singular great coaching jobs in NHL history if not the best.

Going back to 1967 this rates at or near the top

We had this guy and left him go

Also glad for Phil Kessel. Great series and when he gets to play the part of George Harrison he delivered big time

One of most dangerous offensive players I've ever seen and still has my all time favorite goal I witnessed live (game 6 second period vs Habs 2008)

 

[sarge88]

Pens lucked/cheated their way into their 4th cup. Still hate them more than any team aside from the Habs.

 

[ODAAT]

Pens lucked/cheated their way into their 4th cup. Still hate them more than any team aside from the Habs.

not saying I hate em but if they were on life support, I`d unplug em to charge my cell phone

 

[Don Cherry*]

Years ago i used to get into it all the time with posters including the legendary Don Cherry over Sullivan. One of the singular great coaching jobs in NHL history if not the best.

Going back to 1967 this rates at or near the top

We had this guy and left him go

Also glad for Phil Kessel. Great series and when he gets to play the part of George Harrison he delivered big time

One of most dangerous offensive players I've ever seen and still has my all time favorite goal I witnessed live (game 6 second period vs Habs 2008)

Well I guess "All Things Must Pass" no matter if it's the great George Harrison or all the donuts eaten by Phil.

 

[BMC]

not saying I hate em but if they were on life support, I`d unplug em to charge my cell phone

Yes. And if it were the Habs I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire

Pens just aren't in the same league when it comes to hate IMO. The Habs are #1 and then there is everyone else.

 

[Michel Dion]

As a near 50-year-old native Bostonian, my loathing of the Canadiens, Yankees and Lakers (Jets/Dolphins toss-up?) is simply part of my DNA. As others have said, I love to hate them - it's real, but also fun.

Thinking about the Penguins possibly winning the Cup is causing my blood pressure to rise as I write this very sentence. It's not possible to describe how deeply that prospect causes me painful emotional anguish. Mario's whining hypocrisy, the Ulf/Cooke shenanigans, Mario's whining hypocrisy, stealing the Bs colors to cash in on the 1979 Steelers/Pirates and Mario's whining hypocrisy are the worst offenses, but the reasons I hate them are legion. Did I mention Mario's whining hypocrisy?


Actually, the Pens never stole the Bruins' colors, because they never belonged to Boston anyway. Just like Montreal and the Rangers were ok with the Capitals using red and blue, the Bruins should have backed off. It was always a non-issue, especially since Pittsburgh pro hockey teams were wearing the colors decades before the Pens entered the NHL.

 

[sarge88]

I still hate the Pens, but my hatred for Montreal is so deep seeded that I'd rather see them win the cup than the team that has, what I consider to be the face of the Habs franchise for most of the past 7-8 years (and one of the least respectable players in the NHL).

Not to mention that I really dislike Neal, Laviolette, Fisher and several others on Nashville and I like Sullivan and Kessel (primarily because he was really good to my kids when we met him).

 

[BergyDGD]

The hatred for the Pens is more about specific players while hatred for the Habs encompasses everything about the franchise down to hating the site of the logo. The cultural divide between Boston and Montreal makes the Bruins vs Habs unlike any other Boston sports rivalry.

 

[jgatie]

Actually, the Pens never stole the Bruins' colors, because they never belonged to Boston anyway. Just like Montreal and the Rangers were ok with the Capitals using red and blue, the Bruins should have backed off. It was always a non-issue, especially since Pittsburgh pro hockey teams were wearing the colors decades before the Pens entered the NHL.

You resurrected a thread from a year ago to defend something as inane as this?

Pens just went up a notch on my hate meter.

 

[skullguise]

Pens hatred is dwindling for me. Still hate Mario and his whining, while he had hired crap like Cooke. And the tanking and "luck" to get Malkin and Crosby is always a thorn....

But with Sullivan at the helm on ice, and respect to their drafting and trades, I have more respect for them as that dislike dwindles. The year we swept them in the playoffs when all their fans were saying THEY'D sweep US was just so sweet.

So yeah, they got some advantages in ugly ways, but they have been pretty good at building the winning team otherwise.

I'd probably charge my phone from their life support system as well....but they don't come close to the Habs for me either.

EDIT: dang! Didn't see this was a necro-revival. Sorry for adding to it.....

 

[BergyDGD]

Oh also one more reason I hate the Habs is their captain. One of the most detestable players in the league, plays dirty and whines when he gets his retribution. Not to mention the 911 circus that took place. Pacioretty is simply a snot nosed trust fund brat whom I find it hard to find a single redeemable quality in, the same can be said for his trust fund friends in New Canaan, CT.

 

[JoeIsAStud]

I a getting close on this.

There is one big difference. I have hated the Habs since a small child. My Penguin hatred has grown (never hated Mario, but did Hate many from that team). I despise the last decade Penguins from top to bottom

 

[DevilsHughes86]

This is just dumb IMO

I think it's mostly about jealousy, same way people hate the Pats.

 

[BergyDGD]

This is just dumb IMO

I think it's mostly about jealousy, same way people hate the Pats.

Disagree, has any other fan base tied up 911 phone lines over a play on the field or ice? That incident right there just scratches the ice on why I hate the fans of the Habs and the organization as a whole. Ya has historically coming out on the short end helped the hate a bit? Sure. But my hatred for that team and those fans is in no way rooted in jealousy.

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

I love to hate the Habs. I just straight up hate the Pens.

I agree with this.

I LOVE the Montreal/Boston rivalry. It's great. I like to hate the habs.

I wish nothing but mediocrity and disappointment for the Penguins.

Also, the Franchise that took 2 superstars away from us in two generations. That goes beyond rivalry.

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

The hatred for the Pens is more about specific players while hatred for the Habs encompasses everything about the franchise down to hating the site of the logo. The cultural divide between Boston and Montreal makes the Bruins vs Habs unlike any other Boston sports rivalry.

Specific players? The good ones? Or the dirty ones? Dirty ones that the Franchise openly supported after taking out Neely or Savard? That franchise?

Entitled fanbase, and a franchise that is quickly catching up to the Bruins in number of Championships despite being in the league for less than half of the Bruins existence.

 

[Aeroforce]

This is just dumb IMO

I think it's mostly about jealousy, same way people hate the Pats.

I agree, and it's not just Bruins fans. Perusing comments on the internet, it feels like 29 fan bases against the Penguins'.

We can justify not liking a team because of players they employ, but I don't completely buy that. Most are openly pulling for a team that employs two guys with a history of shenanigans against Boston in PK Subban and James Neal.

I think it's simply a case that Nashville has never gotten this far so no one really 'hates' them; and Pittsburgh has won multiple Cups in different eras.

And besides, what team hasn't employed dirty players?

As for Mario, I give him the benefit of the doubt. As one of the greatest players ever who played a large part of his career in the clutching, grabbing, Dead Puck Era, I get where he's coming from.

And what do you expect him to do? When the league was letting/encouraging dirty play, icing a team of choir boys would have made the Pens not competitive and a laughing stock. It's highly possible he didn't want players like Cooke, but when every other team is playing that way, what's he to do? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

I love the team he's icing now; high on elite skill, very fast, with a great coach.

 

[jgatie]

This is just dumb IMO

I think it's mostly about jealousy, same way people hate the Pats.

Why would it ever be even close to Pats hating? Since Neely ran through No Shoulders Svoboda like a bulldozer through a stuffed bunny and then popped one past Patty Ru-ah back in '88, we've beaten them more often than not in the playoffs and we both have Cups (except theirs is 24 years ago). The Patriots are the current longest reigning dynasty in sports. The Habs are the current past dynasty whose younger fans only memory of championships is via grainy YouTube videos. They are a little better than the Oilers at this point, but much more obnoxious about it.

Whoops, unless you mean jealousy of the Pens. If so . . . nevermind.

 

[BruinLVGA]

Habs, Leafs, Pens. In that order, for me.

 

[Chief Nine]

Since the Bruins don't play Montreal as much as they used to, it doesn't quite seem the same these days. But, when I see Gallagher's smirking face after he crashes into the goal it conjures up all the animosity from many years past so I guess that in some way it is kind of the same, we just don't see them play the B's as much.

I hate when the Bruins play them in Montreal more mainly because of the way the crowd freaks out every time a Hab gets any kind of contact or winds up on the ice. It's sickening.

With Pittsburgh, I'm not so annoyed by them now as much as last year and before but if they were playing the Bruins, that would be a different story. There's enough history there with the Penguins. Ulfie, Cooke and Mario have generated enough heat to make them all time villains here for sure. Not quite as much as Montreal, but it's pretty close for me. That's probably due to they're not divisional rivals.

I guess I would say it's close but I'd also have to wedge Toronto in there too basically because most of the fans and the media are like obnoxious attention starved kids.

 

[ODAAT]

My first live Bruins game was in 1984. I was 8. I used to go see them play the Whale and Buffalo consistently. Occasionally I would see them play Montreal. There was definitely something different in the air. I understood the rivalry then and I still do.

But, personally I don't have blood curdling hate for Le Habitants. I do however want to beat up on the Pittsburgh Penguins on every opportunity. In my teens they were the team to beat! I remember going to a bunch of home playoff games at the Garden and losing my voice from yelling BARASSSSSSHOOOLLLLLLE!!!!!!

I would usually return home unhappy.

Then The Hit came. And my favorite player was never the same.

And they continue to field teams of pathetic, cheap knuckle draggers and pretty boys. The biggest egos in hockey IMHO.

So, every year I circle the home games vs the Penguins not the Canadians. I have been to numerous reg season and playoff games vs Montreal. They are great and sometimes a let down (reg season). But for me beating up some Penguins is where it's at!!

GO SHARKS!!!

nope, they don`t even enter the conversation of hatred I have for the Habs

I despise Mario but the Pens themselves? Not close to being a team I like but they can`t hold the hatred that burns inside me for the Habs, never will.