Boston Bruins Ownership
The boston bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in boston they compete in the national hockey league nhl as a member of the atlantic division of the eastern conference the team has been in existence since 1924 making them the third oldest active team in the nhl and the oldest to be based in the united states they are one of the original six teams along with the chicago.
Boston bruins ownership. Forbes magazine ranks him as 481st richest person in the world. Jeremy maurice jacobs sr. But you can no longer call jeremy jacobs the owner of the boston bruins. I have given it to my kids jacobs said.
Jacobs recently handed the keys to the bruins franchise along with his other business interests to his six children as he told the boston globe s kevin paul dupont on friday. Jacobs purchased the bruins and the old boston garden in 1975 for a tidy sum of 10 million. Jacobs was born in 1940 the son of genevieve née. But that s about to change though it s not a seismic ownership change to be sure.
It wasn t perfect but it didn t have to be it was only an exhibition a dress rehearsal but the blue jackets still got exactly what they needed out of 4 1 victory against the boston bruins. Born january 21 1940 is an american billionaire businessman the owner of the boston bruins and chairman of delaware north. The spoked bs are now valued at 1 billion according to forbes and are the fifth richest club in the. Bruins owner jeremy jacobs who also owns delaware north is worth about 4 billion and once spent 625 000 on a village political race in florida because he didn t like someone else squeezing in on his private equestrian club.
Jacobs is in his 45th year of ownership of. Jacobs is the owner of the boston bruins and chairman of delaware north one of the world s leading hospitality and food service companies.