How much support for Jacobs?

[Number8]

On a scale of 1-5 what is your favor-ability rating for Jeremy Jacobs as owner?

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[Therick67]

No zero option? because that's mine.

 

[Number8]

No zero option? because that's mine.

My mistake.

 

[whatsbruin]

I'll base my opinion on what I know, not what maybe.

I know he approves of , and has spent to the cap.

I voted 4, but want to change to a 3.
reason being he listened to Harry for way too long, and there are
rumblings he still is. Also his prices are too high.

 

[Trap Jesus]

As long as they spend to the cap, that's all that really matters to me. He had a reputation as being "cheap" before, but I can't complain if he's spending to the cap.

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

Prior to our last Cup, I didn't think he was very good, but he showed commitment by loosening the purse strings in order to acquire talent and relented in altering his mindset and control, which ultimately led to success. For that he deserves a lot of credit, IMO. I would vote him a 1 on that basis, but dropped it down to a 2 because, while he has the right approach philosophically, I think his residual reliance on Harry's input, and perhaps a misplaced loyalty to hiring former Bruins, has led to management selections which I don't think have panned out too well for the team. While Cam and DS have made some good moves, they've also made some bad ones. I would prefer that JJ had been more disassociated from the provincial tendencies, by and large. But, again, I think the Cup victory righted a lot of past wrongs.

 

[BruinDust]

I voted 4.

He spends to the cap now, I'll give him that. Keeps him from being a 5.

But overall, I don't like him. If he was my neighbor he'd be that neighbor I'd try to avoid speaking to.

Any goodwill he earned the last decade went out the window when he did a interview on HNIC with two other owners, and stated he wasn't in the Garden for the miracle comeback vs. Toronto in 2013, actually had left the building assuming the Bruins were done. The owner of the team couldn't be bothered to sit what, another 30-45 mins, to see the season through.

But expects fans to shell out obscene amounts of money to see the Bruins play even a regular season game.

Fact is, the culture of the organization starts at the very top. With Jeremy Jacobs, not Charlie, or Cam, or Don.

And the culture of this organization has been terrible for years with the exception of the years between 2006 - 2011 when Chiarelli was given more freedom to run the hockey team as he saw fit.

 

[BNHL]

I think as an owner he had a shot at 5-8 Cups,but history or underperformance got in the way. I also think he could have had a legitimate shot at more by being less stingy,prior to the cap.

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

I voted 4.

He spends to the cap now, I'll give him that. Keeps him from being a 5.

But overall, I don't like him. If he was my neighbor he'd be that neighbor I'd try to avoid speaking to.

Any goodwill he earned the last decade went out the window when he did a interview on HNIC with two other owners, and stated he wasn't in the Garden for the miracle comeback vs. Toronto in 2013, actually had left the building assuming the Bruins were done. The owner of the team couldn't be bothered to sit what, another 30-45 mins, to see the season through.

But expects fans to shell out obscene amounts of money to see the Bruins play even a regular season game.

Fact is, the culture of the organization starts at the very top. With Jeremy Jacobs, not Charlie, or Cam, or Don.

And the culture of this organization has been terrible for years with the exception of the years between 2006 - 2011 when Chiarelli was given more freedom to run the hockey team as he saw fit.

Just noticed that this poll was set up incorrectly. Choices are 5-4-3-4-5.

 

[Fenway]

Before the lost season he flat out lied to fans when he said the following.

Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs said yesterday that his team's ticket prices are too high and he hopes the next collective bargaining agreement with players will keep them from rising again.
The current labor contract expires next September. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has indicated that owners need a way to contain salaries that now cost them 75 percent of their revenue.

The Bruins increased ticket prices for the coming season by an average of 2 percent to - percent. Their $99 top price is one of the lowest in the league Bruins spokeswoman Heidi Holland said.

"Ticket prices are too darn high. Our prices are high. We've been chasing away the fans with it over the last couple of years" Jacobs said. "For every dollar that we've increased ticket prices we've spent more than two on a player.

"So we recognize we've got a problem. I hope that the commissioner in the next CBA is able to reach an agreement that allows us to stabilize the ticket prices and perhaps even lower them because I think we are chasing away a lot of our ticket base."

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20030913/News/309139957

That was in 2003.

My biggest beef with Jacobs is he treats the loyal STH's like cattle. One year the perk was a free box of popcorn

I thought he had changed when in 2006 he hired outsiders to run the team and 5 years later Stanley was ours. But now is has slipped back to the old boys network of running things.

The NHL owner that Jacobs had the most respect for was one William Wirtz.

The team would be in New Hampshire today if just one vote in the NH Legislature changed from a no to a yes. ( To approve dog racing in Salem, NH )

Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Boston, Mass.
Author: McDONOUGH, WILL
Date: Jan 15, 1981
Start Page: 1
Section: SPORTS
Document Text
It will be announced tomorrow that the Bruins have reached an agreement in principle to move their National Hockey League team to Salem, N.H.

This move is just part of a total package to rebuild the Rockingham Park racetrack, and construct a new 18,000-seat arena to house the team as it's prime tenant.

A press conference has been called to explain the details of the arrangments of the deal between the Delaware North Corp., the State of New Hampshire and the present owners of the Rockingham track, which was virtually destroyed be fire last summer.

Delaware North, a Buffalo-based conglomerate, owns the Bruins and the Boston Garden.

For the past two months the executives of Delaware North and officialsfrom New Hampshire have been working on the details of a plan that would see Delaware North purchase the property to rebuild the track and construct the arena.

During this time, New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gallen and key members of the state legislature have met continually to draw up legislation that is vital to the finalization of the project.

It is expected that Gallen will announce his full support of the project and his backing of legislation that would require the state to pledge its credit to revenue bonds needed to finance the construction.

Another important part of the Rockingham package will call for greyhound racing at the track. In the past, Rockingham has strictly been for thoroughbred and harness racing. Twice, attempts to bring dog racing to Rockingham have been defeated.

However, proponents of the package feel that the fire at Rockingham has produced an economic crisis in the Salem area and that the climate to bring dog racing to the track at this time is much more positive.

It will also be revealed that the feasibility studies conducted in recent months will show that an arena in that location can attract enough fans to sporting events to make it financially successful. The managment of the Bruins had been concerned that they would lose a majority of their hard core fans if they moved out of their present home rink at North Station to a building 36 miles away.

If the new arena in New Hampshire does become a reality it would be a terrific blow to the city of Boston, which, at the moment, appears to be unconcerned.

"We have never had as much as a phone call from anyone connected with the government in Boston," said Sam Gifford, a spokesman from Delaware North, "and at this point . . . it's too late."

 

[Killerbeez]

In this day and age, if you have an owner that spends to the cap, invests in the team, building and surface that they play on, you're doing pretty well. Regardless of what we may think or believe, he doesn't seem to meddle too much in the operation of the team. He's a business man who runs the organization like a business and lets his lieutenants do their jobs. I think he is a very good owner in this cap world that hockey is today.

 

[EverettMike]

His obituary should include in the first sentence that he was the driving force behind shutting down the NHL for an entire season, and then he cost fans another half season by trying to break the union during a time when the NHL was doing its best.

 

[EverettMike]

If Jeremy Jacobs was told tomorrow he could make more money by pulling a Producers style flop he would.

 

[Fenway]

Just noticed that this poll was set up incorrectly. Choices are 5-4-3-4-5.

Fixed

 

[BklyNBruiN]

On a scale of 1-5 what is your favor-ability rating for Jeremy Jacobs as owner?

I don't really know how to answer this because I don't live in Boston, and yes I know that I can read the Boston papers on the web and I actually do a bit but I don't have that feel that you guys have who live in Massachusetts and know more about the Jacobs businesses and history etc.

Now, I have heard just about nothing but negative things about the Jacobs and most of it come from people here in our forum.

And with that I choose #4. But accidentally clicked on #5 errrr

 

[ReggieMoto]

I voted average. He spends to the cap. He's quiet in the press. I think he's about like every other owner in the league. Some better, some worse. TBH I don't know a whole lot more about him.

 

[ksp1957]

His obituary should include in the first sentence that he was the driving force behind shutting down the NHL for an entire season, and then he cost fans another half season by trying to break the union during a time when the NHL was doing its best.

Quoted for truth. The reason he wanted the cap is that he got tired of the Red Wings spending as much as they did and winning the Cup.


There are two phrases about Jacobs that I despise.

1) He (mis)spends to the cap
2) His team had 29 straight years of making the playoffs. How many of those 29 years did the team get knocked out in the first round ?

 

[northeastern]

He spend cap and stays quiet. This is good.

He also overcharges for everything. This is bad.

But it could be worse... I've come to accept all he cares about is money and Boston, the team, the fans and the sport don't really matter.

 

[KrejciMVP]

average team, average beer and hotdogs, average Jeremy Jacobs

 

[Bellefior]

Edited to remove double post

 

[Bellefior]

Everything I needed to know about Jacobs I learned when he left the Garden to catch an earlier flight when the team was down 4-1 against Toronto in the 2013 game 7.

My "favorite" memory of Jacobs. My husband and I went to the first game after the 2013 lockout. Cam was in line shaking hands with the fans. My husband asked me "who's the old geezer in the suit next to Cam?" I told him, "that's Jeremy Jacobs, I'm surprised the fans aren't spitting on him"!

 

[JoeIsAStud]

I have no problem with Jeremy Jacobs.

He self funded the Garden, and even payed a massive Fee to the government for the right to build, despite being in an era when everyone else was getting publicly funded venues, or at least massive government breaks

He has allowed his hockey people to make hockey decisions during the length of his run.

The biggest complaint I think you can have with him is he has been too loyal to some of those hockey people (ok Harry)

Edit: Had to go back in and clarify and add Jeremy to first line, as Charlie has seemed to be far more meddling than his father ever was, and he gets a much lower grade from me

 

[Bellefior]

He also overcharges for everything. This is bad.

But it could be worse... I've come to accept all he cares about is money and Boston, the team, the fans and the sport don't really matter.

I remember going to a game last year and buying the special souvenir cup. Cheap ******* was still using cups with Milan Lucic on them, who was gone at that point.

 

[chizzler]

Voted 4. Still remember him being cheap and letting Sinden drive away players. They could have won more cups if it weren't for that.

 

[Orr2Neely8]

Dog s*** owner..... and to think Bobby Orr ALMOST had a chance to share ownership before this jack wagon