Around the League 47: Vancouver Collects All The Petterssons

[Blueline Bomber]

Think you are missing the big picture: If you are a visiting player and the visiting locker is first class it leaves you with a very positive impression of that organization. That comes in handy when those players are on the market and you call them expressing interest in their services.

Except if they were interested in anything like that and base their decision off of that, they’d do it off the home locker room, since that’s what they’d be using. And to my understanding, the home locker room is miles better than the away, probably intentionally so.

 

[tarheelhockey]

So, like the 1973-2008 Bruins?

But really just the Ray Bourque Bruins teams.

I might be off base here, but aren’t the Bruins the likely choice for best regular season team over the past 50 years? I know they’ve only missed the playoffs seven times and had a slew of 100-point teams during that span.

For that all to amount to only 1 Cup, and that one only by the skin of their teeth, is pretty wild. Nobody really talks about it, but one game in 2011 kept them from being a Leafs-like punching bag. Guys like Bergeron and Chara have a completely different legacy because of that game.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I might be off base here, but aren’t the Bruins the likely choice for best regular season team over the past 50 years? I know they’ve only missed the playoffs seven times and had a slew of 100-point teams during that span.

For that all to amount to only 1 Cup, and that one only by the skin of their teeth, is pretty wild. Nobody really talks about it, but one game in 2011 kept them from being a Leafs-like punching bag. Guys like Bergeron and Chara have a completely different legacy because of that game.

Going back to the WHA expansion - the Bruins have almost 200 more points in the standings than the closest team. Only Vegas has a better points % but obviously they don’t count for something like this.

The story is pretty similar if you go back to their last Cup with Orr.

Funny side note - despite the Canes recent success, they are 20th among the 21 teams that were in that first post WHA season. Only Winnipeg/Arizona is worse and that franchise ended, technically.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Going back to the WHA expansion - the Bruins have almost 200 more points in the standings than the closest team. Only Vegas has a better points % but obviously they don’t count for something like this.

The story is pretty similar if you go back to their last Cup with Orr.

Damn, that’s an even bigger gap than expected.

Even if we take it all the way back to the Orr era, granted they won 2 Cups but that involved some serious choking in years when they really ought to have won more. Especially in ‘71.

And before that you have to go all the way back to WWII.

Which really puts into perspective that Game 7 in 2011 was the only thing keeping them from having only those two Orr-led Cups to show for the past eighty four years. That’s Rangers-level postseason futility from a franchise that has Vegas-level winning history.

Funny side note - despite the Canes recent success, they are 20th among the 21 teams that were in that first post WHA season. Only Winnipeg/Arizona is worse and that franchise ended, technically.

The idea of the Winnipeg/Arizona franchise just ending is still something that I have a hard time registering.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Damn, that’s an even bigger gap than expected.

Even if we take it all the way back to the Orr era, granted they won 2 Cups but that involved some serious choking in years when they really ought to have won more. Especially in ‘71.

And before that you have to go all the way back to WWII.

Which really puts into perspective that Game 7 in 2011 was the only thing keeping them from having only those two Orr-led Cups to show for the past eighty four years. That’s Rangers-level postseason futility from a franchise that has Vegas-level winning history.

Interestingly, only the Oilers/Penguins/Red Wings have been to more finals than the Bruins since the merger. Red Wings and Penguins only 1 more with 6. They just won most of theirs.

The Rangers have been to 2. Chicago has only been to 4 (but won 3). And of course the Leafs have never won 3 rounds in the playoffs.

 

[AD Skinner]

I feel like it doesn’t get talked about enough but those stats really drive home how impressive 2 finals in 5 years (really 4 since there was no 05 season) was for the canes. We saw a lot of mini dynasties since then with Chicago and LA and Tampa but that doesn’t diminish how wild that was

 

[chaz4hockey]

Damn, that’s an even bigger gap than expected.

Even if we take it all the way back to the Orr era, granted they won 2 Cups but that involved some serious choking in years when they really ought to have won more. Especially in ‘71.

And before that you have to go all the way back to WWII.

Which really puts into perspective that Game 7 in 2011 was the only thing keeping them from having only those two Orr-led Cups to show for the past eighty four years. That’s Rangers-level postseason futility from a franchise that has Vegas-level winning history.



The idea of the Winnipeg/Arizona franchise just ending is still something that I have a hard time registering.

Those late 60's through early 70's Bruins teams were great and with Orr/Espo and the rest of the squad also very entertaining to watch (they weren't mid 70's Philly but they were also very tough).

btw: agree on '71...I remember listening to that game on my transistor radio (lol, I'm old)