Yes indeedy. Charles Adams, founder of the Bruins an extremely interesting guy, amusing. Grocery store magnate. First National. Had this "thing" about the color brown. First Nationals colors... all his employee's, dressed in brown; delivery wagons? Brown. Horses that pulled them? Had to be brown. All the upholstery in Adams household? Brown. Every stick of it. Plates, cups, saucers.... His suits? Brown. Ties? Every single one of them, brown. Shoes & boots... every single pair brown... I rather get the impression based on what Ive read about him that he made Adrian Monk.... Felix Unger's obsessive compulsive disorders seem mild in comparison. Something very endearing about that kind of eccentricity but I digress... Ha?.....
There was also quite the rivalry between Boston & Toronto, between Art Ross & Conn Smythe, the two men detesting each other, tonnes of rather hysterical stories, encounters, disagreements between the 2 over the years... the rivalry running pretty much right through into the 50's before Boston kinda fell off the map, Toronto back on it, then in 67 when the wheels completely fell off in Leafland Boston ascendant & that rivalry like Toronto & Montreal pretty much done, an ode to the past that only older generations have any real memory of; Boston vs Montreal kicking in again from the late 50's, very much alive even to this day despite the changes wrought on the business side, very near impossibility of building & keeping Dynastys' together, Montreal not the organization it once was.... Decent rivalry between NY & Boston as well which is transcendent of just hockey of course. Always loved the Bruins as yes, absolute "gamers" even when they were perennial doormats. Always interesting rosters.
