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.

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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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Last night was our greatest nights as sports fans in our lives.

Last time the Bruins won the Stanley Cup, none of us were born. We weren’t even sperm in our daddy’s sack. Last time they were in the Finals, we were old enough to understand our favorite team was close but not nearly old enough to understand the hard work and sacrifice it takes a team to get where the Bruins are now.

Most of the Days of Y’Orr staff doesn’t give a crap about the Red Sox and we barely pay attention to the Celtics. We like the Patriots, but would trade those three Lombardi trophies for one Stanley Cup in a heart beat.

Sitting in the TD Garden Friday night when Horton scored, when the final buzzer sounded and when Zdeno Chara gathered his teammates to pose with the Prince of Wales Trophy was such an unbelievable feeling. Easily the best memory of your sports fan lives.


It still hasn’t really sunk in. The Boston Bruins are in the Stanley Cup Finals. You all know how unbelievably good it feels to say that. The Boston Bruins are in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Pick up any Boston newspaper and it is staring you in the face. Everyone’s picture on Facebook is the picture of the team gathered around the Prince of Wales Trophy. Every Bruins fan you know is still delirious. There’s a noticeable jump in your step today.


The Bruins haven’t always played their best these playoffs but they’ve found a way to win. There are no “superstars” on this team according to experts and that is just fine by them. And that is just fine by us. This is TEAM. Not individuals. A team. They showed that when Chara refused to get his picture taken alone.

Unlike past years, you really feel this is a team that is living and dying for each other with every play. A team that believes they have what it takes.

Vancouver stands in the way. They are a machine. They rolled through the regular season and just embarrassed the San Jose Sharks. No one outside of Boston is giving the Bruins a fighting chance in this series. Not a soul.

But you’re like us. You’ve seen what this team can do when they are at their best. You’ve seen what Tim Thomas does when everything is on the line. You’ve seen how hard this team battles when their backs are against the wall.

Down 2-0 against Montreal. They stormed back. They won Game 7 in overtime. Then finished what they couldn’t last year when they swept Philly. Against the Lightning, they faltered for a bit and needed a reminder of what it takes to win. Then they went out in another Game 7 and put everything on the line for a full sixty minutes.

“Their power play isn’t good enough to win.”

“Their penalty kill isn’t good enough to win.”

“They don’t have the offense to compete with the teams in the West.”

You know what the Bruins do have?


They have Tim Thomas FINALLY getting his first Stanley Cup Finals appearance. If you think he is not going to be at his all time best for this we already know you’re wrong.


They have a full roster of players who are FINALLY buying into what it takes to win at the highest level.

And they did it all for each other. Not for individual glory or accolades. They are a team united in one common goal. To win a championship for themselves and end a drought for a city they know has given them so much.

That is why we all believe they can win. That is why we all believe they WILL win.

The Redemption Tour rolls on as we all sit back and continue to Believe in OUR team.

And as good as last night felt, we know it can be better. Boston has been 35 pounds too light for too long. If we all continue to Believe, the Bruins will do their part. 

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Fuck yea!

The Redepmtion Tour continues.


Four wins away. 
 
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Pre-Game Essentials:

• It's time to rally the men, folks...
• Our Game 7 preview
• Haggs: Five changes for the Bruins in Game 7
• Paoletti: Can you feel the hurt?
• Looch wants to play for the Cup in front of his home town

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It's time to rally the men, ladies and gentlemen.

It's time to raise your colors and standards and to let trumplets blaze. Time to pick up your swords and shields and wield it in any way you see fit -- to cut down your enemy or protect your brethren.

For there is no tomorrow. There is no next time.

 
There is no dawn unless we get through the night.

Life offers no guarantee of a second chance, my friends. It makes no promises and holds no favorites. Glory is for those who earn it -- for those who sweat for it and bleed for it, who believe in it, and who scratch and claw away at every possible chance until -- through the soot and dirt -- they see that slight glimmer of hope. The diamond of life -- Opportunity.


It is only then can glory be harvested. It is only then can men leave the realm of myth and into legend. To see immortality before oneself can be an awe-inspiring experience.

Some men tremble, letting the soft earth beneath them quake and shake their very foundation untilt they're no more than a puddle of piss.

Other men -- men of mettle, of steel and of iron -- march forward through the fog of war. They see immortality as a precious jewel that belongs to them. They soar while others fall.


Songs and ballads are not sung for those who sit idly by and watch life pass them like a summer's breeze. They're reserved for the heroes and gods of this world -- for the men who raised themselves above the commonfolk and into the Pantheon of their choosing.

But it won't be easy. Nor should it.

It's time to see what mettle rests in our hearts, ladies and gentlemen.

It's time to ready the men.


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