by bignick33 on Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:03 pm
To answer your question eagle9903, there are both hockey nerds and hockey brutish types in Boston, just as there are in Philly. There are probably a lot more of both here than there are there, because Bruins territory is a lot more geographically expansive than Flyers territory (it goes north all the way to Canada and the Martime provinces and stuff). What we also have a lot of--as I'm sure the Canadian teams do as well--are the hockey-coach types who are probably somewhere in between the aforementioned categories. These are the types who sit quietly in their seats during play then analyze play with their buddies often in great detail during breaks in play. Some are tremendously knowledgeable, and others think the fact that they coached their kid's mite team in and of itself gives them expertise. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced here because people from Boston and surroundings self-indulgently think they make good hockey coaches as a rule on the basis that there have been a lot of good hockey coaches from Boston (any of the hockey coach types would cite guys like Laviolette, Torts, Joe Sacco, Brian Burke, Scott Gordon, Jack Capuano, Jerry, Parker, Bill Hanson, Ken Martin, and probably some others as evidence of this fact).
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