Running Stanley Cup Playoff Thread

Intra-team rivalries. What's not to get?
Calgary will be *pissed off* if Vancouver wins.

 

Edmonton's mayor was quoted.

I'll see if I can find it tomorrow and link it. It ran a couple of days ago.

I'm from the 'close ranks' school. If a team from the Big ten is playing in a bowl game I root for them, even though the Big Ten team I follow stinks and has most likely been stomped by the team playing in the bowl.

Different strokes, I guess.

 

Just a lot of fans of lets say Calgary and Edmonton can't possibly bring themselves to cheer for a rival. I don't buy into cheering for a team just because they are from Canada. The year the Ducks beat the Senators Anaheim had a hell of a lot more Canadians on their team than the Senators did.

 

Do you know many Red Sox fans who would pull for the Yanks in the World Series?

 

As to JR's crack about Habs fans, they are waaaaaay more likely to cheer for Vancouver than Boston. I'm taking it from both my Vancouver family AND my Montreal friends but nobody gets between me and Tim Thomas. Nobody.

 

I root for 10 of the 11 Big Ten teams in bowl games. Someday, I'll begin recognizing Nebraska as part of the league, too . But there's no way I could ever find myself pulling for my alma mater's big rival under any circumstance.

However, in pro sports, I'm not going to close ranks around a team just because their base of operations is in a particular region of the country (or country). I've experienced first-hand watching how Canadians almost wrap their nation's sovreignty in hockey, but the vast majority of the players on both teams are from Canada, and more of Boston's roster is Canadian than Vancouver's. In pro sports, where a team is based is almost immaterial other than to that team's immediate fan base. Everyone else is just another team in the league -- a division rival, a conference rival or some team you play once a year.

 

I said 20 years since they won a Cup. We know how 2007 ended ... as well as 2004 and 2006.

 

Yes the teams that beat them had a shit ton of Canadians on them. If the Canucks win Canada does not win, just like if Boston wins there is no medal for the States

 

Right - Canada's Team won in 2010, and we have 55% of the players in the NHL. We don't really have anything to prove in hockey at the moment, certainly not by having a club team that happens to be based here win.

As it happens, I have a mild rooting interest for Vancouver and a rooting interest against Boston. But that's circumstantial.

 

I have relatives in both Calgary and Edmonton and they are pulling for the Canucks.

(Reminds me, I have to send some Rubles to Calgary to pay off that Olympic bet)

My wife just got back from Ottawa and Quebec and she said whenever the talk turned to it people were pro Canuck

The piece in the Strib just surprised me. I also thought there would be some bounce after the Olympics, the Winnipeg thing and the chance to get the Cup. I was wrong. I guess my extremely scientific sampling methodology has some kinks to work out.

Went to my first NHL game in 1967 (RIP North Stars) and also first went to Canada that year. My wife I'll leave out of it, she knows I'm an idiot, but my point is I am not unfamiliar with the lay of the land. Didn't know this, though. Learn something every day, as they say.

Thank you for filling me in. 8)

 

Burrows the biter should have been suspended to begin with. NHL showed no guts on that one.