B's are like the Flyers, strong in the regular season, crappy going for the Cup. Montreal especially seems to have some kryptonite effect on the Bruins, as in 2002 and 2004, they botched huge leads to get beaten in 7 by low-ranked Habs teams. I think their last Stanley Cup must've been 70s, because 80s was all Long Island and Edmonton. They did lose a couple Cups to the Oilers though, but that loss in 1990 looks like it's as close as they're going to get for a long time because their management is starting to resemble some sort of Blackhawks Lite.
But anyway, the Red Sox are the team in Boston. Thing about the Patriots is that I don't recall they had any real superstar players until Bledsoe. In fact, I think the Patriots really just had a lot of crappy years while the other three were good. You NFL diehards are gonna have to prove me wrong on this, though, I'm out of my element on this one. But when you've got Ted Williams, Bobby Orr, Ray Bourque, Larry Bird, John Havlicek, all these Boston sports heroes of the past, it's really hard to warm up to the rather faceless New England Patriots.