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Why are Boston Bruins the most hated team throughout the NHL?

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Howler21 said:
Have read in numerous internet sources that Boston Bruins are by far the most hated team in the NHL.

During the last decade I can easily refer this to the likes of Marchand, Chara, Horton, Lucic or S. Thornton, but is it historically only linked with their style of play i.e. the fact that Bruins have always been a harsh, tough and sometimes dirty team or there are also other reasons behind that?
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LOL.
 
The leafs are more hated because of their fanbase and media than the actual team in my opinion.

Personally, I feel like more often than other teams. Bruin players fight after one of their teammates gets hit whether it was clean or not.

The most obvious answer would be that the Bruin's rivals are some of the biggest franchises in the league. Coupled with some high profile incidents over the years such as Chara/Pacioretty incident, Lucic/Miller "accidental collision", Lucic threatening Weise/Emelin at the handshake line, Lucic "nutcracker", Marchand's multiple slewfooting incidents, Ference's glove malfunction, etc... It's easy to see why people hate the actual Bruins team.
 
Howler21 said:
Most Hated NHL Teams - Top Ten List - TheTopTens®

Boston Bruins Are The World's Most Hated NHL Team: Reddit (PHOTOS)


It is just a pair of sources. May be I am mistaken. I don’t have a clear picture as Iam living far away from both Canada and the USA. But based on what Iam reading in the internet and watch on YouTube it is just so.
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Second link... So the world hates the Bruins, except for South America who hates the Canadiens (?) and Africa who hates none other than the... Jets (???).
Like say "Drouin!" in the Barrio and my God, they'll skin you alive, man. Same in Sierra Leone: they'll be shooting each other to death in their civil war, but at the mention of Scheifele, they'll chase you to the end of the world. And I heard that in the Mongolian steppe whole herds of yak's will stampede if shown a picture of Bergeron. *shivers*

And the first link is just a paragraph written by someone and a bunch of comments by some folks.

This is satire, right?
 
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Huokaus said:
I think it all depends on the definition of 'hated'.

On ice product/players? Yeah, I can see the Bruins being pretty unpopular among both players and viewers. They have Marchand and all.

Hated team because of fans/tradition? Yeah, I can see Toronto being up there. Even though the bad apples are a minority as with all fanbases, when there's so many fans you will have a large amount of bad interactions with the bad apples and it can get to you. When I started following the NHL and lurking here a bit over 10 years ago I had no idea why the Leafs were so hated - I didn't grow up with the idea that the Leafs are something to be hated. When I had some critique towards them, I got responses like "keep on being a Leafs hater" and I had no idea what the hell that was about - they were just another team among others, nothing special. I didn't 'hate on them' just because I was supposed to, I just had something to say that wasn't all positive. After years of such interactions the idea of hating the Leafs (or well - the fanbase, albeit unfairly to a large amount of them) grew on me.
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Want to be negative fine. Just provide some sound argumentation.
 
It is because Boston is good and in a division full of Canadian teams, including the two biggest Canadian teams (media and all), and we have played them both in the playoffs lots the last 10 years. and then one of the times they go to the finals, they are up against the West Coast (media) Giant. There's so much hyperbole and (tv) bias against the Bruins that it isn't even funny.

Look at the teams that Pittsburgh and Washington went through to win their cups; nobody in Canada really cared.
 
Several reasons

- continued success of Boston Sports. Bruins have also enjoyed a good 10+ year run

- style of play. Continually among the league leaders in fights and employed players who have played at or over the line

- infamous rivalries of popular Canadian teams. Stealing the hearts of two Toronto teams in the past 5 years. Crushing the best Vancouver team and Canada's best chance at the Cup in a long time. The battles with Montreal.
 
Pyrophorus said:
Doesn't have the HHoF
Nor more players in it
Smaller fanbase and market
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Montreal is the mecca of hockey, deal with it. :cool:
 
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Chris18820 said:
Toronto is the center of the hockey universe. Double the population and the Hall of Fame is there.
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Montreal is the mecca of hockey, all the greats who played for Montreal, but there are also exhibits of the great rivalries. It's amazing to see the contribution the Montreal Canadiens have made to the world of hockey through the history of the NHL and hockey in general. Oh yeah and 24 Stanley Cups and the greatest and richest franchise history of all time.
 
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Their fans are the most biased. Had someone on here recently say that Bergeron, pasta and Marchant are all better than Crosby. Not sure if he was serious or not, nobody could be that dumb.

Jack Edwards is the most biased commentator in all of pro-sports.
 
PB37 said:
Several reasons

- continued success of Boston Sports. Bruins have also enjoyed a good 10+ year run

- style of play. Continually among the league leaders in fights and employed players who have played at or over the line

- infamous rivalries of popular Canadian teams. Stealing the hearts of two Toronto teams in the past 5 years. Crushing the best Vancouver team and Canada's best chance at the Cup in a long time. The battles with Montreal.
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More people in Canada were cheering for the Bruins than Vancouver in that series
 
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Pyrophorus said:
Doesn't have the HHoF
Nor more players in it
Smaller fanbase and market
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The Leafs history isn’t even comparable to what Montreal has done. Like not even close.

You guys are closer to the Rangers in terms of being the worst original 6 post expansion team.
 
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Howler21 said:
Have read in numerous internet sources that Boston Bruins are by far the most hated team in the NHL.

During the last decade I can easily refer this to the likes of Marchand, Chara, Horton, Lucic or S. Thornton, but is it historically only linked with their style of play i.e. the fact that Bruins have always been a harsh, tough and sometimes dirty team or there are also other reasons behind that?
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For Canadian fans that hate the Leafs or Habs... the Bruins are a great safe bet to cheer for.
 
snipes said:
The Leafs history isn’t even comparable to what Montreal has done. Like not even close.

You guys are closer to the Rangers in terms of being the worst original 6 post expansion team.
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Were not talking about history here. The Canadiens obviously have the most storied franchise.
The HHoF, more players have came from Toronto than any other place, more registered players, larger population and arguably bigger fanbase.
 
Chris18820 said:
Were not talking about history here. The Canadiens obviously have the most storied franchise.
The HHoF, more players have came from Toronto than any other place, more registered players, larger population and arguably bigger fanbase.
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For once I agree here but Montreal and Quebec province still produced a lot of hall of famers especially in the older days. And the Montreal Canadiens have the biggest fanbase.
 
Chris18820 said:
Were not talking about history here. The Canadiens obviously have the most storied franchise.
The HHoF, more players have came from Toronto than any other place, more registered players, larger population and arguably bigger fanbase.
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Here I thought we were talking about NHL teams. There’s no denying that the two greatest players, Gretzky and Orr came from Ontario but we’re talking about hockey teams.
 
Howler21 said:
Have read in numerous internet sources that Boston Bruins are by far the most hated team in the NHL.

During the last decade I can easily refer this to the likes of Marchand, Chara, Horton, Lucic or S. Thornton, but is it historically only linked with their style of play i.e. the fact that Bruins have always been a harsh, tough and sometimes dirty team or there are also other reasons behind that?
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Is that you Donald?

Many people are saying...
 
Pyrophorus said:
Want to be negative fine. Just provide some sound argumentation.
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Is this some next level satire or something?

I already said what I have to say about the subject, but just to simplify it for you: when people are annoying, other people will be annoyed at them. Sometimes if the annoyment is very big, it can spread to other people and things that the annoying people are associated with (e.g. in this case the Leafs team is innocent collateral of the hate towards annoying fans. People wouldn't feel so strongly towards the team if it wasn't for the fans).

I don't want to be negative just for the sake of being negative. I don't have any 'arguments' or anything. I'm just stating my personal experiences and observations without an agenda and that's all there is to it. That was kinda the point of the whole post. My line of thinking is like "hey, these interactions made me think this way - it's probable that some other people arrived to the same conclusion the same way".
 
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If I had to guess, reputation. When you're hated 8 years ago that's generally hard to shift public perception, or more likely for the bruins, the perception of public perception.
 
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