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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.What do the UCLA Bruins and the Cincinnati Celts have to do with this messageboard?With the Bruins stinking badly and the Celtics getting the 5th pick in the draft..will these teams ever be relevant again ?
Hockey's pretty popular around NE if you haven't noticed. Ever been to the Hockey East finals, BeanPot tourney, or even Massachusett's High School Elite 8 tournament. Bruins were a pretty hot ticket even in the Celtic's heyday! Both franchises will find their way to the top of the hill again. How long! That's the question?Why do the Pats & Sox rule New England?
1. Because those are sports people can relate to. Everybody has played football and baseball. Basketball, too, for that matter, but I'll get to that in point #3.
2. The Pats & the Sox give fans their money's worth year in and year out.
The key component in any good hockey team is a great goalie. The Bruins haven't even had a GOOD goalie since Lemelin. Regarding this years team, IMO they had no goalie, and only Chara on D. The other 5 defensemen aren't even worthy NHL players. But the biggest problem with that team is the coach. Lewis is terrible!! Never tape to tape passes, always chasing the puck, no heart or intensity what so ever. What happened to Bergeron? I felt like (and still do) he was gonna be another yzerman. Didn't happen!!
As a playing sport, it's far more popular than basketball in the northeast (except maybe NYC and Long Island, but they're usually too pansy for hockey anyways).
Assuming you mean the Celtics heyday of the 80's (and not the 60's) then, yes, the Bruins were popular too - because they had a few darn good years in there themselves. They made the Stanley Cup finals twice in that period, not too shabby.Hockey's pretty popular around NE if you haven't noticed. Ever been to the Hockey East finals, BeanPot tourney, or even Massachusett's High School Elite 8 tournament. Bruins were a pretty hot ticket even in the Celtic's heyday!
Even if the B's get better, who is going to care? The NHL is becoming less relevant by the minute. They cut off the conference finals in OT last weekend to give you a full hour of a horse racing pregame show! When horses walking around a track is preempting your conference finals, that is a baaaaaaad sign. The NHL is off ESPN and now on OLN and Vs. I wouldn't even be surprised if the NHL folds within the next 20 years.