Murphy definitely has contacts around the Boston media but often pulls shit out of his ass, making him the Boston version of Eklund. He once called a Bergeron for Pronger trade having been agreed upon and " imminent ". He started a rumor that Kessel had a drug or drinking problem keeping him out of the lineup when it was cancer treatment. I think I was the first one here to call him out for his BS and others started to follow suit. He was not a liked source during his time on the Bruins board.
In recent years, he's made a fool of himself, coming back under a different name to talk shit to the mods and the rest of the fanbase, trying to show an air of superiority. He was routinely stealing info from one of our trusted insiders and using that info as his own on twitter. Speaking of Twitter, a couple of Boston fans over there purposely started an outlandish rumor just to see if Murph would pick it up and sure enough, he did, claiming " an inside source told me... ".
But, as I've said, he does have legit contacts within the Boston hockey world and media, which for whatever reason, think he's worthy enough to keep him employed, which I don't know if that says more about Boston media ( which is trash ) or Murphy ( who also is trash ). If I ever do run into him, I would happily give him the fight he's been asking for all these years.
The unfortunate side effect to the board running Murphy out was that some of the Boston media that were legit ( Kevin Paul Dupoint, Dale Arnold to name two off the top of my head ) and who would post on the board also left, or started to post less and less until they no longer did. I don't think they liked the power that we had where we could call out a guy for not backing his claims or asking him to tone down the " well, an inside source told me.. " rhetoric.
