When the Canucks scored last night, my wife took the usual position of SWAT gear and riot shield ready for the black and gold tornado that was about to tear through our living room. To her surprise, when the game ended, I looked at her and said "its bed time" and didn't throw my usual 28 year old temper tantrum. I don't know why this happened because when Boston played Tampa, our living room was at Defcon 4. It could be that the Bruins played so well last night that having a goal scored in the final 30 seconds didn't really surprise me.

Many people were expecting the Bruins to get their doors blown off in Game 1. We've heard it all...Ryan Kesler is amazing, the Sedin twins are the best thing to skate on frozen water, Roberto Luongo is so good the Vezina Trophy is being renamed "The Lou". People were predicting outrageous scores. I saw 6-2 Canucks, 5-1 Canucks, 7-0 Canucks. It's amazing to me that people who are "supposed to know hockey" don't really know the game at all.

Boston is a defensive minded team and last night they showed why. They played their best defensive game of the playoffs last night despite the refs making terrible calls on both sides. Wait a minute, you mean that I'm saying the refs were bad to the Canucks too? Yeah I am. It's obvious that they tried to control the game, but the Bruins penalty kill stood up to the task and killed off every penalty they faced.

In fact, the Bruins penalty kill and defense was so good that the Canucks couldn't get a shot off in the first 12 minutes of the second period. Sure, the Bruins got lucky on a few shots (the shot that rang off the left post comes to mind) but the Canucks were just as lucky. I reviewed my DVR during lunch and Kesler was offsides, but why bitch about it now? We can't go back in time and make the correct call.

Both teams played very well. Tim Thomas was electric in net last night for Boston. Right from the drop of the puck Vancouver tested Thomas with a flurry of shots and Timmy stood up to every one of them. He stopped rebounds, breakaways, one-timers...all except for one because his team left him out to dry. That's really what the game winning goal came down to. It came down to (another) bad move by Boychuk and an ill advised line change that left Thomas alone with two Vancouver players. 99% of goalies won't make that save, it just won't happen.

So the recap is pretty short but that's because there isn't much that needed to be said. The game was so close that either team could have pulled it off in the last minute. I guess we'll have to wait until Game 2 to see how this plays out.

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Game starts at 8, we'll get the ball rolling in chat around 7:30.  Bruins have a near perfect record when we host these things, so we're hoping to keep it up!


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Thanks to Jaye for sending us this screen shot of the story on our Sedin gnome photoshop.

Here's that infamous story we talked about for the Van Prov. Looks like they did a bigger story for the paper than online.


Page A3 and in color. Not bad for four guys and a cat in their mom's basement. Also that's a lot of print space to use to call us "childish" and "lame." Haha

Best part is the pullquote:

"We have our green guys, they can have their gnomes. Ours are better. We have original stuff."

Yes... original stuff like the Green Men.


Oops. Oh well... nice try, Vancouver. Thanks for the publicity.

The Bear > Green Men

Can't wait to get an actual copy of this. It's getting framed.

 
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Earlier we posted some of our own Bruins Hockey Rule ads. Apparently our Sedin Twins are Gnomes is causing a bit if a ruckus up north. So much so that the Vancouver Province wrote a story on it and a local VAN radio station wants to interview us about it tomorrow morning.

Seriously, of all the things this blog has said, done and photoshopped that's probably the most mild "insult" we've thrown out there.

In related news, we've got word that there's a new Bear commercial coming out (no idea when) but it'll probably be like similar to the last one with the Bear and the spray paint. Can't wait.

All this brings us to the point of this post. We were approached by reps of Reebok yesterday afternoon. They're going to give us a couple of shirts to use as a give-a-way.


We've decided that a "Create your own Bruins Hockey Rules" ad would be a good way to give a way these shirts. We'll let winner decide which shirt they want but we're assuming they'll probably want the Eastern Champ shirt.

Contest is pretty self explanatory. Make a Bruins Hockey Rule ad poking fun of the city of Vancouver, the Canucks, the Green Men, etc. You can do video if you want but photoshop ad is easier. Do what compels you.

Winners will be picked by the DOY crew over a case of beer. 

Contest ends on FRIDAY JUNE 3rd at 5pm ET. We want people to get these shirts in time for Game 3 and 4 if they're going.

Email submissions (JPG/PNG or link to video) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject "Bruins Hockey Rules contest."

To make life easier we've created two blank templates you can use. The font we use for these is Adelon but use whatever you want. If you want credit for the image put your name/twitter/email in the picture somewhere. If we get a ton of submissions giving credit to everyone will be a huge pain, so just do it yourself. 

We'll do a post announcing the winners this weekend.

Click the images for high res version.





Have at thee! Remember: Deadline is this Friday, June 3rd at 5pm ET. You have 2.5 days. Kick ass!

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Whats this?!? A Bruins game in June?? Usually by this point we have that year's NHL booted up on our Xboxes, tearfully recreating the season that could have been.  Now, we're gleefully playing NHL11, finding new ways to check the Canucks into the boards and trying to injure the Sedins with Chara's slapshot, all the while leaving Thomas out to dry with our pitiful defense.

Speaking of the Sedins, who's ready to hear the T word 1,000 times over this series?!? Yeah the idea of two dudes who shared a womb playing on the same team is kinda cool, but the novelty wore of a while ago...kinda like the novelty of Green Man.

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So yesterday the Days of Y'Orr email received a request from the fine people of the Vancouver Province newspaper asking about our Sedin garden gnome Bruins Hockey rules picture. We sent the fine people of the Province five different hockey rules signs and a short description of why DOY is doing this. What did they use? Nothing. No images. No quotes. The only thing of substance is some random Vancouver citizen says Justin "doesn't have a very high IQ". Now how having a high IQ relates to making posters is beyond me, but I can't hear that well from the insulation in my mom's basement anyways. Since the good people of Vancouver are being deprived of these Bruins Hockey Rules signs, we decided to post them here, so here you go.

Update: The above image actually did run in the Province newspaper (just not the web edition). We want a copy of this.

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Author's note: I wrote this on my old blog. There's a 99% chance that 4 of the readers I had aren't reading this right now. In fact, I know that three of them blog for this website. They've read it. I wrote this because of the increasing number of "Bruins fans" in the Boston area and throughout the globe. With the influx of pink hat and bandwagon chatter, it was time for this to come to the masses. Remember, it was written towards the beginning of the season, but I think most of it still holds true the night before the Stanley Cup Finals begin.

With the recent boom of hockey in the Northeast I feel that it is my duty to break down the Bruins fan. I wrote a post a very long time ago for Something's Bruin about how the Bruins fan is becoming the Red Sox fan pre-2004. Much like the Red Sox, the Bruins crowd is starting to change a little bit. Before the Bruins 2008-2009 season, the Shawmut Center/FleetCenter was full of people who could talk about a hockey game at length. They knew the ins and outs of the game and while the teams were being bounced in the first round of the playoffs and drafting guys like Joe Thornton, Hannu Toivonen, and Lars Jonsson (all first round picks, respectively). While some people were writhing in agony about the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals where Glenn Wesley was missing open nets, others had no idea what the hell was going on with the black and gold. When Joe Thornton was blowing playoffs series and playing the role of ghost, most had no idea who the hell Joe Thornton was. It wasn't until 2008 that a lot of people started paying attention to the Bruins. It's a pretty broad statement, sure, but it is also a fact. Once the playoffs started rolling and Boston was the top dog in the East, people really put on their black and gold shades and started to pay attention. The good thing is that it really made the Bruins prolific again on the Boston sports scene. People started wearing memorabilia. People started to talk about regular season games and training camp as opposed to just talking about the playoffs. The bad thing is that it mad ticket prices go up and made it harder for people to go to games. It also brought in a lot of "puck bunnies".

Per urbandictionary.com: from canadian slang. a woman who goes to hockey games for the sole purpose of fucking one of the players.

So for anyone looking to get in to hockey, I am about to do you a major solid. When you look at the fanbase there is basically four major groups. Think of them as the major food groups of Boston hockey.

After the jump, a look at the Big Four of Bruins Fans
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Rap videos seems to be the new fad for NHL fans. Almost every team has one. Bruins finally got their own recently.

We're not huge hip-hop guys here at Days of Y'Orr. To each their own.

But it was nice to see someone do a classic rock Boston Bruins song -- "Tim Thomas Wizard", set to the tune of "Pinball Wizard." The video's choppy but the music is pretty solid. Better than our voices.


Bring on the Canucks.

Props to Paul for emailing us the video.

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Fans gathered at the Boston Garden today to wish the Bruins luck as they head off to Vancouver for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Bish was taking pics and posting them on Twitter. Standard stuff for Bish.

Somehow this pic snuck in there.

 
Two girls to the right of the signs honoring Ference 3:16. Or they realy hate Bish. One of the two. 


Speaking of Ference, he autographed some fans middle fingers. Pic courtesy of @ColleenSK and @Colldizz (girls holding the signs). 

 
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The Boston Bruins are in the Stanley Cup.

Holy shit. Still sinking in. Enjoy the moment folks. It's going to be great.

To celebrate and chopbust Vancouver all in one go, Bottom Line Apparel has created another Bruins t-shirt. If you've gotten the other three rounds worth of BLA shirts, you might as well get this one.

Catch is he's printing this in a limited edition of 50 shits in assorted sizes, so if you want to complete your collection you should order early. Once they're gone, they're gone.
The shirts are $15. Be sure to give us credit so we can afford to buy Purrgeron the good kity litter. Otherwise he'll piss on our pillows. Not fun.


Order here.

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