When is it going to be our turn?
I'm not talking about winning the Cup.
I'm not talking about winning the Eastern Conference Finals.
All I want is a measly second round playoff round win! Is this too much to ask?
2009-10 Lost in 2nd Round
2008-09 Lost in 2nd Round
2007-08 Lost in 1st Round
2006-07 DNQ
2005-06 DNQ
2004-05 NHL LOCKOUT
2003-04 Lost in 1st Round
2002-03 Lost in 1st Round
2001-02 Lost in 1st Round
2000-01 DNQ
1999-00 DNQ
1998-99 Lost in 2nd Round
1997-98 Lost in 1st Round
1996-97 DNQ
1995-96 Lost in 1st Round
1994-95 Lost in 1st Round
1993-94 Lost in 2nd Round
1992-93 Lost in 1st Round
17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
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17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/17/2009 9:22 AM EDT
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/17/2009 9:50 AM EDT
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/17/2009 10:02 AM EDT
- Gardensupportor
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At least it hasn't been 86 years, yet.
Posted by bluefox70
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/17/2009 3:55 PM EDT
- chocolab511
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wow 3 series wins in 17 years... -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/17/2009 4:23 PM EDT
- BEAR812
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I wonder how many times in those 17 years they actually finished higher than Eighth place. Seems like there were a lot of years I remember them just getting in as the 8th place seed... In 96-97 that was the first year we missed the playoffs in 29 seasons. -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/17/2009 4:35 PM EDT
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And its not that far removed in 88 and again in 90 when we lost two Cup finals to LOADED Edmonton teams... I used to think those Bruins teams those years were our Best chance... Neely and Bourque. Wow... time flies. I wonder if maybe they should go back to the old 5 game format in the first couple of rounds or knock about 20 games off the season. Season just seems too damn long and we dont ever seem to ready for spring. Injuries or just getting cold at the wrong time. -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/18/2009 6:57 PM EDT
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The Sheep are happy because they LOOOOVE meaningless regular season finishes, it gets them through thier dateless summers... -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 7:41 AM EDT
- codder72-1
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OK there is no way all those years are correct! The Bruins cannot be that pathetic, can anyon verify this? -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 9:25 AM EDT
- MTLBRUINFAN
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OK there is no way all those years are correct! The Bruins cannot be that pathetic, can anyon verify this?
Posted by codder72-1
Unfortunately it is correct . 1990 best team in the NHL and lost to the Oilers in the final . 1991 again Eastern Conference Champions , lost to the Pens in the Conference Final in a series which turned once Neely was cheap shotted.
Since then I think 2002 and 2004 were good teams who got bounced by inferior Montreal teams. Bad goaltending as usual and players with no balls aka Joe Thornton, Bill Guerin, Hall Gill , etc...etc... -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 10:14 AM EDT
- BlackNGoldBlood
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The Sheep are happy because they LOOOOVE meaningless regular season finishes, it gets them through thier dateless summers...
Posted by damngood
I have counted at least 10 times that damngood (AKA Chowdahkid, FredfromNH, chocolab, etc.) has used the word "SHEEP." I wonder if damngood, I mean chowdahbrains, or is it fredfromNH... has a vocabulary of over 10-20 words? I forgot, he's also completely mesmerized by the word "lemming."
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 1:37 PM EDT
- ZILLAGOD
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I am one of the lucky ones.
I was here when the Bruins won their last Cup.
I remember the '70's teams and how we were a force EVERY year.
I remember this team being competitive and talented through most of the '80's.
Unfortunately Harry Sinden and Bill Wirtz of the Hawks were the main guys pushing for years to get a salary cap in the league. These two teams ( Bruins and Hawks) imposed their own salary caps before it became a reality.
Is it ironic or a coincidence that now, only a few short years after the NHL has finally made the cap a reality for all teams, that the Black Hawks and Bruins are returning to the top of the league?
Don't give up, the lean years of the 90's and early 2000's were not without a purpose. Without a salary cap the NHL would not have survived in today's economy. Sinden and Wirtz were adamant about the need for a salary cap, their teams suffered for about 20 years while they kept up the fight for common sense in a sport that is not as popular among the masses as baseball and football.
They saved the sport although us fans had to suffer many losing seasons for them to get what they wanted. -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 2:14 PM EDT
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Don't give up, the lean years of the 90's and early 2000's were not without a purpose. Posted by ZILLAGOD
Hey bud what do you mean early 2000's? We are a few months shy of 2010 here, We're going on almost 2 decades of futility -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 3:01 PM EDT
- ZILLAGOD
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Hey bud what do you mean early 2000's? We are a few months shy of 2010 here, We're going on almost 2 decades of futility
Posted by codder72-1
You're right.
Time flies when you're having fun.
I should have said MOST of the 2000's.
Hey , it's a good story and was bored at lunchtime. Nobody has to agree with it.
At least the Bruins have an excuse and there are people like me still alive who remember a championship. Not like the Saints of NFL, Milwaukee of MLB or the Toronto Maple Leafs and Hawks , who all have an even longer run of suffering. It's not as if this is the only sports team to go without a championship for 37 years. -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 6:41 PM EDT
- omega33
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You're right. Time flies when you're having fun. I should have said MOST of the 2000's. Hey , it's a good story and was bored at lunchtime. Nobody has to agree with it. At least the Bruins have an excuse and there are people like me still alive who remember a championship. Not like the Saints of NFL, Milwaukee of MLB or the Toronto Maple Leafs and Hawks , who all have an even longer run of suffering. It's not as if this is the only sports team to go without a championship for 37 years.
Posted by ZILLAGOD
Thats the problem right there ZILLA it's "fans" like you who are ALWAYS coming up with excuses for thier failures and acting like the ultimate apologist for the organization. I thought fans are supposed to hold thier team accountable instead of being excuse makers year after year decade after decade -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 7:14 PM EDT
- ZILLAGOD
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Thats the problem right there ZILLA it's "fans" like you who are ALWAYS coming up with excuses for thier failures and acting like the ultimate apologist for the organization. I thought fans are supposed to hold thier team accountable instead of being excuse makers year after year decade after decade
Posted by omega33
I hope you don'tthink it bothers me that a person like you , who had nothing to say all season, shows up after the Bruins are done and calls me an "ultimate apologist" and that I am the problem.
How do you figure I am the problem when I did the same thing I have done every season including 1970 and 1972? I did nothing different now than I did when they won, I supported my team, watched the games, and hoped for wins.
Unlike people like you who have nothing to say all season and then come here pretending to be a frustrated fan. but in reality you relish in defeat , so you can whine about Jacobs and how you are so frustrated with all these years of no championships.
Go ahead and hold the team accountable and spend your life crying about how "our team s#cks, again" instead of recognizing that there is a real solid core of young talent that just needs to mature.
I grew up watching the greatest hockey team ever, Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Johnny Bucyk, Wayne Cashman, Derek Sanderson, Eddie Westfall, Dallas Smith, Don Awrey, Carol Vadnais, Mike Walton,Don Marcotte, Fred Stanfield , Pie MacKenzie, Ace Bailey, Gerry Cheevers, Eddie Johnston and Nick Beverly.
..and then there was this guy named Terry O'Reilly who just never quit and I don't care that he never won a championship , he was the MAN.
I became a Bruins fan for life in those days, and nothing anyone in this world could ever do or say would or could ever change that.
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 7:37 PM EDT
- Vrabel500
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At least the Bruins have an excuse Posted by ZILLAGOD
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 11:11 PM EDT
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DAHHH... I keep fahgeting why I'm spending time here in dis Bruins forum when I hate da team... Dahhhh
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/21/2009 11:25 PM EDT
- CountyCork1
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DAHHH... I keep fahgeting why I'm spending time here in dis Bruins forum when I hate da team... Dahhhh
Posted by da-rivercharles
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/22/2009 7:17 AM EDT
- CarolinaClamMan
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Right On, Zilla. Good perspective on the cap etc. Now that all teams are under a cap, it comes down to which one has the best scouting, management, farm system, heritage and expectations. We have an excellent team with a real future, all within cap limitations. Other teams are in much worse shape. Look at Tampa, putting so much into a few players has handcuffed them and now they can't move Lecav. because his contract is for TEN more years and mega bucks.
Our astute management will get the K&K puzzle solved and we will be better next year than this.
Like most B fans, I was upset by how much good talent we let slip away under the Sinden- O'Connell years. We had a cap but big rich teams like NYR and Dallas has unlimited spending power. Now the field is level. The Rangers struggle because they are ROTTEN at their core, like the city itself. Ditto for Dallas-- a big rich stupid place.
Next year we will be bringing up some brilliant talent from Prov. Also Sturm will be back, and could score 40. There seems to be unanimous opinion (included PC as quoted) to sign Krejci long term.
The future looks good. Stay tuned!!!
ps Zilla-- you forgot to mention my favorite player back then-- BRAD PARK. Loved the way he passed where he was NOT looking. Hunwick reminds me of him somewhat, has that potential. -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/22/2009 8:31 AM EDT
- Vrabel500
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DAHHH... I keep fahgeting why I'm spending time here in dis Bruins forum when I hate da team... Dahhhh
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/22/2009 4:52 PM EDT
- ZILLAGOD
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ps Zilla-- you forgot to mention my favorite player back then-- BRAD PARK. Loved the way he passed where he was NOT looking. Hunwick reminds me of him somewhat, has that potential.
Posted by CarolinaClamMan
CarolinaClamMan, didn't intend to slight Brad Park, I was focusing on players from the last B's Cup winner.
Impossible to list all the good players from the '70's without going on forever.
A few other players who were favorites from those years, Gregg Sheppard, Stan Jonathan, Rick Middleton Mike Milbury and of course my favorite goalie ever, Gilles Gilbert. -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/22/2009 6:11 PM EDT
- BruinsCountry
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Hey Gardensupporter,
What team do you support anyway? All you ever do is complain about the Bruins, even in the face of obvious improvement the past 3 seasons. Anyone can complain, that's easy.
So tell us: next year, if B's improve by winning in the 2nd round but then lose in the 3rd round, what will your little chart look like then?
2009-10 Lost in 3rd Round
2008-09 Lost in 2nd Round
2007-08 Lost in 1st Round
2006-07 DNQ
Even if B's were to lose in 3rd round next season, do you see a pattern of IMPROVEMENT here? As fans, that's all we can reasonably ask, isn't it? No one goes directly from a DNQ to winning a Cup. Obviously, Chiarelli knows what he's doing. But nobody has to tell you this. As a true B's "supporter", you know it too.
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 5/22/2009 7:55 PM EDT
- Gardensupportor
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Hey Gardensupport er , What team do you support anyway? All you ever do is complain about the Bruins, even in the face of obvious improvement the past 3 seasons. Anyone can complain, that's easy. So tell us: next year, if B's improve by winning in the 2nd round but then lose in the 3rd round, what will your little chart look like then? 2009-10 Lost in 3rd Round 2008-09 Lost in 2nd Round 2007-08 Lost in 1st Round 2006-07 DNQ Even if B's were to lose in 3rd round next season, do you see a pattern of IMPROVEMENT here? As fans, that's all we can reasonably ask, isn't it? No one goes directly from a DNQ to winning a Cup. Obviously, Chiarelli knows what he's doing. But nobody has to tell you this. As a true B's "support er ", you know it too.
Posted by BruinsCountry
IF IF IF
IF my aunt had nuts she would be my uncle!
The Bruins pulled thier usual job of underperforming in the playoffs, stop trying to justify it with your what if scenarios -
Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 6/15/2009 7:47 AM EDT
- Chowdahkid
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All I want is a measly second round playoff round win! Is this too much to ask? Posted by Gardensupportor
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Re: 17 LONG LEAN YEARS...
posted at 6/15/2009 9:56 AM EDT
- bluefox70
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The second round win isn't measly in the NHL. That would put them into the final four. This isn't football, where you have to win 2 games and you are in the super bowl.