Boston Bruins End of Season Presser

[EpochLink]

I'd add Jake DeBrusk to the successful 1st round picks. He isn't a star or anything, but a solid contributor for a middle of the 1st round pick.

Yeah, DeBrusk did produce this year in Vancouver with 28 goals considering his centres were an injured Pettersson and a toxic seahorse in Miller. Streaky for sure but the man can drive the net and score goals.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

This one was an all-timer of dudes throwing each other under the bus and ownership making a fool of itself. Here is one brutal clip:



Cam Neely and Don Sweeney took turns blaming each other for the last season while sitting right next to each other.

Both are beyond incompetent as management and should have been fired by now.

 

[EpochLink]

Both are beyond incompetent as management and should have been fired by now.

Only way I see Neely leaving is if he steps down, I can't see ownership firing a Bruins legend.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

What am I missing here?

"Hey, the team sucked. Any comment on the increase in ticket prices?"

"Yes, operating costs have increased just as with everything else in this economy. We had to raise ticket prices accordingly."

What exactly is "brutal" about that? That seems like an exceptionally straightforward and reasonable reply.

The Bruins raise ticket prices when the Bruins are good, average, and terrible. The fan experience is outrageously expensive between tickets, parking, food, and NESN streaming at $30 per month on a brutal app.

 

[Fatass]

Bruins should have talked about a proper rebuild. That’s what they need to do.

 

[Bradely]

A two-year, 13% increase in ticket prices outpaces cost of living increases, plus with a loss of return this year for fans (the team sucked).

Second, and more importantly, this is a billionaire pinching pennies and explaining that any extra cost he might incur will absolutely be pushed down to his customers (with interest), who are infinitely less wealthy and also in the middle of an economic downturn.

So, yes, brutal. Stop normalizing billionaires being assholes, there is not and has never been any real justification for it.

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Maybe there is a reason why they are billionaire. Maybe being an assholes is part of why

 

[Bradely]

The Bruins raise ticket prices when the Bruins are good, average, and terrible. The fan experience is outrageously expensive between tickets, parking, food, and NESN streaming at $30 per month on a brutal app.

Fans do have the liberty to go or not to a game, buy or not a ticket or a jersey. the building is full, who in the hell would not do the same if you sold out.

Before going on Jacob, fans will have to stop purchasing and buying, then tickets will go down. Don't think this will happen.

 

[ForsbergMoDo21]

I don't consider myself wealthy, but I do run my own business, and I understand having to raise prices for services rendered. I raised my prices on new clients for 2025. Existing clients will get bumped up on July 1st.

The schick of "billionaires are raising prices because they are greedy" is such a worthless opinion because it demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of even the most basic business practices or even how wealth is measured. It's the "Scrooge McDuck" depiction where you probably think being a billionaire means you go to your local bank, open up your checking account, and there's $1,000,000,000.01 or more in liquid cash there.

And that's in no way "defense of billionaires". That's just a non-dumb person having a semi-realistic opinion about the real world. I actually thought the classic Simpsons gif was appropriate for your post.

So you’re just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire. Got it.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Bruins owner sucks and that team still had the ghost of a culture left by Chara and Bergeron- seriously, I think they made that much of a mark on a dude like Marchand where it just carried even into last year.. then they treat Marchand like shit on the way out the door and they’re just f***ed.

East is wide open with this gong show and NYR.

 

[Fatass]

Bruins are in big trouble. A club going backwards. Why did the give huge dollars (and term) to Lindholm and Zadorov? They committed to a 3/4 C and a 5/6D.

 

[12ozPapa]

How is any of this threadworthy? Seems pretty standard lip service to me

 

[lawrence]

I thought their plan was to tank this year and tank next year for the Mckenna sweep stake.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

...Sea Bass got cooked...and it stunk...

 

[Boud]

People siding with the incredibly wealthy over their peers will forever mystify me. Truly the ruling class's biggest victory.

But maybe you are also incredibly wealthy and are siding with a peer, who knows!

Unrelated to the ticket sales topic but honestly the people that are considered “rich” are the ones stimulating the economy and providing jobs to working class people. They create wealth but that also comes to the benefit of working class folks in many ways.

There are some bad and good apples at all levels of the scale from rich to poor and it’s not because someone is “rich” that they are automatically without virtue.

I think there’s a big misconception nowadays where many people are against people who make money because they aren’t playing within that system that allows them to get there. If you are a moral individual and can play that system you can do extremely valuable and positive things for society.

But yea, it does suck that the ticket prices keep going up, no debating that.

 

[BruinLVGA]

Everyone in Boston management should be fired for drafting Letourneau in the 1st round. Was that the worst Draft +1 for a 1st rounder in NHL history? Their scouting staff needs to go as well.

For everyone too lazy to check, Dean Letourneau, a center, put together a 36 games, 0 goals, 3 assists‘ season with Boston College in the NCAA.
A turd of biblical proportions of a season, indeed.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

more like Depresser

 

[Voight]

This one was an all-timer of dudes throwing each other under the bus and ownership making a fool of itself. Here is one brutal clip:



Cam Neely and Don Sweeney took turns blaming each other for the last season while sitting right next to each other.

Whats hilarious is the Jacobs' refused to pay their arena workers when COVID shut everything down and only did so after being publicly shamed. Yet now they're crying poor.

 

[Voight]

Possibly the worst excuse ever. This might've made sense if Sweeney had come from outside the organization. He was AGM when he got hired/promoted so he definitely would've been involved in the draft prep process.

 

[Voight]

I agree with your overall point here, but in fairness to the management at the time, Kessel was a cap casualty and Toronto came in hot with a hostile negotiation and threat of an offer sheet. It was more about money and Brian Burke trying to flex on people than it was about Kessel’s character.

Yea I don't recall Kessel ever having character issues. If anything, he seems like a guy team mates love to go to war with.

 

[Patdud]

Neely is the worst team exec in the league, he needs to go. warrior as a player but what a coward as an exec.

 

[MoneyManny]

Do you consider your business to exist on the same plane of existence of a billionaire's? I ask that sincerely.

There is a huge difference between a small business trying to keep profit margins healthy and a billionaire squeezing blood from a stone out of habit. A billionaire does not live "in the real world" as you quote it, which is the problem.

Contextually, I question whether you have followed the Jacobs' family financial history with the bruins; their practices have been especially galling as it relates to wealth hording.

The question of how liquid Jacobs is means nothing to me. People of his stature are able to take lines of credit we can't even dream about just based on equity alone. If he did not raise prices for the bruins, he would be just fine. It is ludicrous to try and argue otherwise.

Wonder if there's a bank that would insure $1,000,000,000 liquid lol

 

[tarheelhockey]

Yea I don't recall Kessel ever having character issues. If anything, he seems like a guy team mates love to go to war with.

As a Bruin, he got some heat for being lazy about fitness and a bit soft. But at the end of the day, he was going to get paid and everyone in the league knew the Bruins couldn’t fit him under their cap.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Possibly the worst excuse ever. This might've made sense if Sweeney had come from outside the organization. He was AGM when he got hired/promoted so he definitely would've been involved in the draft prep process.

Oh its worse, if Sweeney was so handcuffed by no prep time, why didnt he just take the BPA 3 times?! That would've gotten him Barzal, Konecny, Chabot.

Even if the scouts are convinced a reach will be a star, not taking Barzal with one of the picks is criminal. 2015 had the same team need as 2025, a young 1C.

 

[BruinDust]

For everyone too lazy to check, Dean Letourneau, a center, put together a 36 games, 0 goals, 3 assists‘ season with Boston College in the NCAA.
A turd of biblical proportions of a season, indeed.

I'm surprised none of the media brought that up. When Cam asked KPD for specifics, Letourneau should of been his response.

 

[BB79]

What an embarrassment. Blaming security and ushers having to be paid but never blaming ridiculous player contracts...*coughSwaymancough*

F Jacobs. Haven't attended a game since 2018, probably won't again as long as Jacobs is around. Ironically my last game at the Garden was Bruins vs Blues...a year before they met in the SCF