Boston Bruins Jeremy Jacobs - Hockey Hall of Fame acceptance speech
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PlayMakers
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It feels wrong that Jacobs is in the HOF.
I mean, normally something like this would be celebrated and look at the chatter in this thread...
Crickets.
I think about how Detroit fans loved their owner... But with this guy it just always felt like a business. Wins and losses were secondary to profit. Not profit and loss. Profit or more profit.
Honestly, feels like the HOF just let Scrooge in.
I mean, normally something like this would be celebrated and look at the chatter in this thread...
Crickets.
I think about how Detroit fans loved their owner... But with this guy it just always felt like a business. Wins and losses were secondary to profit. Not profit and loss. Profit or more profit.
Honestly, feels like the HOF just let Scrooge in.
Hamilton Brian
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How else were they going to justify the money donated for the new Jeremy Jacobs basement at the HHOF?
Basement, because they can't expand on the...oh, nevermind. It's a crowded corner, unless they take over the Marche.
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
It's funny, I absolutely do not think he should be in the HOF and think it's embarrassing a secret process put him in there.
But in fairness to Jacobs he paid for his own stadium, unlike billionaire Mike illitch who made his bankrupt city pay for his.
So f*** Mike Illitch in a way I would never say that about Jacobs.
What I wasn't aware of until last night was Jacobs is now the longest tenured owner in Boston sports history passing Tom Yawkey.
blecchh. this particular selection was inappropriate and embarrassing. that's really all there is to say about it without getting personal.
if there was ever an opportunity to go work for the club, the ownership would be one of the real downsides. it would be like being stuck working for Jonathan Kraft without a Robert. no thanks. no effing thanks.
if there was ever an opportunity to go work for the club, the ownership would be one of the real downsides. it would be like being stuck working for Jonathan Kraft without a Robert. no thanks. no effing thanks.
smithformeragent
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Next thing you know, they'll induct former New York Knights owner "The Judge" into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
LouJersey
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I've been a fan since '77 and I'm not really sure what to think about Jacobs. I used to get pissed I remember when they dealt guys like Fergus and Krushelnyski...There was no internet back then, and I didn't get much coverage of Boston. I was livid when they traded Pederson, but that turned out phenomenal. They always seemed to come up short in the play-offs. I never really thought about them not making moves to get over the top. They ran into the Edmonton dynasty which sucked.
The thing for me that despised Jacobs was the 90's and watching the Colorado's and Detroit's of the world spending and spending to win Stanley Cups.
NHL Team Payrolls, 1994 to 2004 - San Jose Sharks, NY Rangers, All Teams, NHL Team Payrolls
That's just a sample, but that's when I got really bitter.
The thing for me that despised Jacobs was the 90's and watching the Colorado's and Detroit's of the world spending and spending to win Stanley Cups.
NHL Team Payrolls, 1994 to 2004 - San Jose Sharks, NY Rangers, All Teams, NHL Team Payrolls
That's just a sample, but that's when I got really bitter.
JP Nolan
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Harry Sinden was able to hide all the warts that Jacobs could care less about creating. Not paying Geoff Courtnall was a real killer and the player he became was someone who would have put us over the top. Sinden was maybe the smartest GM out there but he was always plugging holes created by Jacobs not wanting to pay guys....If not for Sinden, the team would have spiraled downward much like the Black Hawks did all those years....Hall of fame is a joke.
The guy is a businessman first and foremost, I guess he helped create the cap which is good for the league, but I don't know how much I necessarily celebrate him restricting the money to the players so he can have more to himself either. He's also a huge reason concession prices are so expensive, because money is what he really cares about. Whatever for his nomination but he isn't going to ever have my appreciation.
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Jeremy Jacobs said it exactly right - he made an "economic investment in the Bruins" and thats where it ends. Jacobs isnt emotionally invested - he just cares about the bottom line and making a profit.
BigGoalBrad
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Glad hes OK. When I flipped to NESN last Friday for the Toronto game I assumed the pregame video montage for him had to be posthumous (what other reason would there be for it) but he soon walked on the ice. Nice of him to be the first inductee honored and have a longer tribute for himself than the inductees who got in for playing hockey.
So you and Steve can give him a standing ovation ?
I've never had a problem with Jacobs.
He hired someone who was or at least was supposed to be one of the best minds in the game (Harry Sinden), and he then let Harry Sinden run the team as he saw fit . A lot of anger which should be geared towards Sinden is misdirected at Jacobs in my book
He hired someone who was or at least was supposed to be one of the best minds in the game (Harry Sinden), and he then let Harry Sinden run the team as he saw fit . A lot of anger which should be geared towards Sinden is misdirected at Jacobs in my book
talkinaway
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They tried recently. I forget which game - logic would dictate it was the Penguins game, as it was the first one after the induction, but it might have been the Edmonton game - they flashed a brief congratulatory montage. There was enough booing that you'd think they were trying to honor Bettman himself. I don't think he was there - I doubt it, as he spends half his time in Buffalo, and the other half in Florida.
BigGoalBrad
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Nope because he will be booed loudly and rightfully so. I don't think he even got a warm reception for the banner night in 2011.
I was close to forgiving him for the barren years and looking past questionable behavior like orchestrating a lockout or two (and not expecting to crush the players so badly that they took a huge rollback we didn't benefit from not having anyone under contract) or how he has gone about getting his hands on the Bruins/concession services for national parks etc etc. But then the MBTA sold him the parking lot under the Garden and he doubled the price and that all went out the window. Professing his love for all things Buffalo at any chance he gets doesn't endear him to our fans either.
I think it was Pittsburgh. My friend told me it was during the 1st intermission when half the people were in the concourse (including myself) and that Michaela Johnson mentioned it on the jumbotron and he said lot of people booed around him but I was thinking more of a pregame ceremony.
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