What made you a Boston Bruins fan?

[xizor81]

Raymond Bourque and Cam Neely.

I'm from Montréal and my father started despising the Canadiens when they kicked Guy Lafleur out. Being 6 at the time, I had to find another team.

Plus being a Bruins fan in Montréal is the best way to piss off all the annoying fans and homers that are brainwashed by all the self-righteous crap they say on TV, papers and online.

 

[MistahZig]

Grew up in Habs territory. My grandfather promised my dad that if I started playing hockey, he'd buy all the equipment.

When I did the only thing he bought... was a Bruins jersey lol

Grew up playing hockey (even played briefly with Daniel Briere when I was a teen) and watching the Habs on tv with my dad. Bruins Habs games were my favorite games. Favorite player was Cam Neely.

Became a Bruins fan because I got sick and tired of the Habs trying to build a team to look like their 70's golden years of grace and speed, which is now obsolete. That and preferring the more rough approach of the B's, which was my playing style growing up.

Go Bruins go!! ;o)

 

[RustyBruins72]

i've posted this a couple times but one more can't hurt.

May 10th, 1979. I am in front of my TV with my dad watching my habs wearing my autographed hat and PJ's on.

Too many men.

OT

Game over.

Me: "Dad, they don't deserve to win, they cheated."
Dad: "They didn't cheat, they had too many men on the ice"
Me: "No dad, they cheated, they cheated. They don't deserve to win."
Dad: "Sorry Russ, it was a penalty, they didn't cheat."
Me: "No dad, they cheated. CHEATERS!!"
I run to my room and cry for 2 hours. Woke up the next day a bruin fan.

 

[unifiedtheory]

Born and Raised and live in Vancouver (and suburbs).

My very first memory of any sport is sitting in front of the T.V. on a Saturday watching H.N.I.C. and I still hear my Dad's voice say "watch the guy with the puck, #4, he's the greatest hockey player you will ever see"....

I had a Bobby Orr doll as a kid. I have class pictures in grades 1 & 2 of me in a Bruins sweater.

Orr made me a Bruins fan and Raymond Bourque kept me a Bruins fan.

When I played ball hockey as a kid my friends would be Daryl Sittler, Guy Lafluer, Steve Shutt or Ken Dryden.

I'd be Rick Middleton, Barry Pederson, Pete Peeters or Marco Baron.

I have been a Bruins fan since birth and I will die a Bruins fan. I am a football guy #1 (my team is the Dolphins) but the team I have always been proudest to support is my Bruins. Living in Vancouver and being a Bruins fan is the BEST. Nothing is better than running Saturday errands sporting a Bruin sweater. The looks I get, 18 months since the Cup, are priceless.

 

[Pie O My]

Raymond Bourque and Cam Neely.

I'm from Montréal and my father started despising the Canadiens when they kicked Guy Lafleur out. Being 6 at the time, I had to find another team.

Plus being a Bruins fan in Montréal is the best way to piss off all the annoying fans and homers that are brainwashed by all the self-righteous crap they say on TV, papers and online.

said it before and i'll say it again - I reserve a special place in my heart for all B's fans who live in Bellyofthebeast, Quebec.

 

[BruinsRule774774]

Born and raised in Montreal. My Pops was a Bs fan so naturally became one too as it was kind of pounded into me (thank God)
He grew up loving Orr and Espo. I was born in 79 and Ray became my idol. Still have his humpty dumpty potato chip mini hockey card in my wallet. Was at the parade Ray held outside the arena that's named after him in 2001 in TMR when he won it for the Avs.
Moved down to central mass in 2002 only 1hr from the garden.I usually goto about 3-4 gms a year. My family is still up in enemy territory.
School was tough and of course most of my friends are habs fans.
Summer of 93 was the worst summer of my life haha.

 

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[doc5hole]

Growing up in Minnesota, I learned to skate before I learned to swim. I loved college hockey with the U of M's Golden Gophers, and loved the Minnesota North Stars. Loved Modano, Neal Broten, Dino Ciccarelli, Bobby Smith.....

Then in 1993, one season removed from a Cinderella Stanley Cup run in '91, an evil, terrible man named Norm Green took the NHL from the State of Hockey and moved it to a place where they have to manufacture ice. So.....we had no NHL team to cheer for.

I went off to BU in 1993 and the Bruins were waiting for me.

That was an awesome Minny team that ended the Montreal dynasty in '80 and swept the Bruins the next year en route to the Cup final vs. NYI. Craig Hartsburg anchoring a strong D, Steve Payne, Al MacAdam, just excellent. I think they got a little full of themselves in 81-82, and a gritty Chicago team turned the tables on them. That was also a great era for the Blues with Federko, Sutter, Babych, Liut, Crombeen, Micheletti. Good times for those clubs.

 

[doc5hole]

My dad is a huge Ranger fan, we lived in the Bronx for a bit back in the day, he used to take me to Ranger games. We were in the crowd December 23rd 1979, I was 12. The Milbury shoe game. Watching the B's go into the crowd and wack guys in the crowd was all she wrote - big B's fan ever since. In fact, I have a nice pic from that game of Milbury in the crowd in my office. Loved the B's since.

That was sort of a last hurrah for that era. Don Cherry was gone and Fred Creighton was coaching them that year, but most of the Bruins from the late-70's were still on that team. What an ending to a game, Esposito breakaway on Cheevers for a chance to tie in the final seconds, doesn't score, buzzer, Phil smashes his stick on the ice and, simultaneously, this thing is happening behind the Bruins bench and it just goes crazy. I've never seen McNab violent before or after that incident, but he was one of the first ones (if not theee first) up in the stands.

 

[Minny Shinny]

That was an awesome Minny team that ended the Montreal dynasty in '80 and swept the Bruins the next year en route to the Cup final vs. NYI. Craig Hartsburg anchoring a strong D, Steve Payne, Al MacAdam, just excellent. I think they got a little full of themselves in 81-82, and a gritty Chicago team turned the tables on them. That was also a great era for the Blues with Federko, Sutter, Babych, Liut, Crombeen, Micheletti. Good times for those clubs.

This guy here was a little baby mite rink rat during those years, but I remember going to the old Met Center (now of course, where the Mall of America is located) and watched those 80's North Stars teams....and yes! Craig Hartsburg! were the years that hockey hooked me, and the reason I'm up at 1245am watching PHX/SJ some 30 years later.

Amazing Blues teams, as you say. Current Wild fans can't wait to get realignment back on the table and renew those old rivalries with STL, DET, CHI.

Ah. Memories. This made me smile.

 

[bruins04]

sergei samsonov. that isn't a joke...

also, in nhl '94... they were the team i just couldn't lose with. for as long as i can remember hockey, i've been pulling for the bruins.

 

[badbrewin]

When I was 6 back in '76, my uncle was a big name player in the QMJHL and was a huge fan of Orr. At 16, he was a young uncle and lived right above us so I'd spend all my free time up there and just idolize everything he did. He had Orr posters all over the place, it was Bruins this and Bs that, we'd watch every televised game together and 36 years later, it just stuck and now my wife and 2 kids are Bs fanatics too.

There are likely no 2 similar stories when it comes to Bs fans from Montreal.

 

[Rubber Biscuit]

The earliest game I ever remember going to was the Bruins at the Islanders. The B's were wearing their Pooh Bear jerseys.

I was maybe 5 years old and I was already a Bruin fan, which was weird enough around here, but even crazier since my dad is a Habs fan.

I do remember after that game I was hooked on Ray Bourque and that would ultimately be why I would stick with the Bruins.