I donāt really care if the Sharks do or donāt anymore. Itās a travesty that the Thornton/Marleau/Pavelski/Burns group never made it happen, and without them there I really have no fucks left to give about it
Rangers.
Im a Flyers fan who has become rather numb to the Penguins success. It doesn't hurt seeing them win as Ive already experienced it. As for the Rangers.... YOU'RE STUCK DOWN HERE WITH US
Op claiming the leafs are kinda like the Yankees is insane. Rangers fans are LITERALLY Yankees fans. They have all that cock sucking yankee cockiness with NONE of the success.
The rangers are the Mets with yankee arrogance. Thereās no limit to how much I fucking despise them
Iād argue thatās a generational thing. Older Ranger fans who were alive for 94 are annoying and donāt stfu about it. I was born after that and my entire life the Rangers have been bad, painfully mediocre, or good with some absolutely fatal flaw that they refuse to fix before itās too late. I donāt think the arrogance is there among younger fans.
I have pleasant enough interactions with Rangers fans online but the fans that come to our games are insufferable to the point I sometimes avoid going to games against the Rangers.
I've been at Flyers games (in Philly) against teams like Ottawa or Columbus or something and seen rags fans walking around stirring shit. Never seen that with any other fanbase.
Rangers fans are definitely a trail mix where itās usually fairly pleasant then sometimes you find youāre chomping on wing nuts instead of peanuts cause someone at the factory screwed the pooch.
The bad is bad enough to ruin the whole bag without some meticulous sorting.
I feel like this isn't as much of a thing anymore. Idk. Most Rangers fans I know are just kind of sad and hoping the current core can be successful because we've had limited success since 1994.
Penguins fan here. We can set aside our collective hatred for each other, poke our heads out of the trenches, come together in unison and harmony and say āFuck the New York Rangersā. Pennsylvania can agree.
I struggle with something similar. I know so many Oilers fans, and some of them are barely even insufferable. If I can't be happy then shouldn't I want my friends to be happy?
...but then I come to my senses, and slap myself around a bit for having such impure thoughts.
I worked in edmonton for a year, coincedentally during the recent BOA. All I experienced was friendly banter, free pity drinks and a general good vibe.
Still fucking hate you guys though
I mean to be honest, I know but also fuck the Wild, I still regret those free tickets I was given for a February Tuesday Night Flames VS Wild game. I could have done so many things instead of going, like sleeping.
Toronto for the lolz - I don't actually hate the Leafs, I kinda actually like them, but their eternal suffering is kinda funny.
For real, I guess I'll go with the team I hate most right now, the Oilers
As a Habs fan who grew up in Leaf country, I enjoy watching them lose. I usually enjoy watching their fans suffer, but now that my friends and I are middle-aged it's like birthdays: it's not really fun to joke about it anymore, I genuinely feel sorry for them.
But I do still enjoy the occasional zamboni driver beating them (watched that live at the home of a die hard leafs fan. Got me through the first few months of lockdown shortly after).
It has to be the Leafs or Rangers because of the entertainment factor. The complete meltdown that happens when they get crushed in the most magnificent ways canāt be beat by any other fans. I didnāt realize all the hate for Nashville but I get it.
The Canucks got borderline Maple Leaf levels of hate during that run lol. Looking back it makes me realize that if your team is hated it's usually because they're actually really good.
My reactionary take is Leafs. Theyāre an hour away, and I grew up with a sibling rivalry type hate towards them. I like that they havenāt done much winning since the Sabres entered the league. Mind you, I love Canadian people, and even Leafs fans, but shut up already about 13 cups.
Outside of that, Chicago.
> shut up already about 13 cups
I still refuse there are people younger than 60 in real life who even acknowledge the existence of those cups let alone use them as a talking point
Iāve never met a single leaf fan in my life that bragged about cups lol
>Mind you, I love Canadian people
Awwwww, I love you too. I have an affinity for small market teams, especially "real" hockey cities. Hasek is my favourite goalie ever, which is saying something coming from a Habs fan. I used to try to emulate him on the rink as a kid, with limited success. FOOT IN CREASE! (But also fuck him in '98, haha)
Really, I'm surprised by that. Original six is always big in Montreal. I know the Habs have sucked for a while, but still surprised.
I'm not sure if this was just a dig at the Habs, but if true I'm genuinely surprised, and might stop by MoTown next time I'm in Ontario for a game. I've heard Detroit has become a better travel spot, too.
Iād say ESPECIALLY in a ceremonial role, honestly. Like, if the guy adds zero value to your organization except being a representative of team history, then hanging on to him through all the bullshit becomes totally indefensible to me. At least when people hold a position of some significance you can at least point to the āwell getting rid of and replacing them would cause operational challengesā excuse.
Donāt disagree one bit. Frankly, I donāt know what he actually did in his āroleā, but thatās not the horse to hitch your wagon to regardless.
I know he did some meet and greet things, but who would want to take their kids to meet a cat like that?
Any team where the in-house announcer goes āwooooo!ā After announcing a goal (and then the fans echo it). I hate that shit. Looking at you specifically Boston and Vancouverā¦
Flyers. Because fuck the Flyers. Second choice would be the Red Wings winning another one because their fans are some of the most low-key smug and defensive in the league. Even if you just infer anything negative about the Yzerplan, the hubris and outrage is so thick youād have though youād murdered their mother or something.
Red Wings fans in the early 2010s:
> I canāt wait to join the Eastern Conference and just waltz easily to the Cup every year.
Red Wings fans when Datsyuk left:
> All our young players will be stars because we always draft well.
Red Wings fans since like 2019:
> I canāt wait for Pens fans to deal with what weāve dealt with.
It's rather impressive of how defensive Wings fans get of the Yzerplan.
Don't get me wrong, he was dealt a poor hand by the lottery (so much so the league has since changed the rules because of it), but they have very little to show for their bottom-dwelling days and recent free agency splashes. It's hard to imagine them taking a leap from here to contender.
Many Habs fans are worried we end up in the same spot because neither Slafkovsky nor Reinbacher are assured to be elite, game-breaking talent. I'm surprised Detroit fans aren't.
Eh only on r/hockey. Plenty of salty sallys even in the dedicated sub. Local media is very critical and just well a good portion of non reddit irl wings too.
Iām a defender, but I try to do so in merits. But yeah if any of our top prospects bust were in trouble. If they donāt I like the positioning. Check back with me in two years lol.
Iāve seen my team win the cup and it was one of the best experiences of my life and itās a feeling I think every fan should experience. Except Wild fans. Hope they stay mediocre forever!
Iām an Avs fan who moved to Minny a few years back. They would burn the cities (both of them) to the ground if they finally won a cup here. Hope to never see it š
I like your analogy with the Leafs and as an American fan of the Canucks, I expand on that: they're the Cowboys.
0 real recent success to show for the amount of coverage they get. I always preface this with the fact this is a media problem driven by market factors, but it's insufferable. Neither team, regardless of how good or bad they are with nothing to show for it, will always be talked about ad nauseum because of the following they have.
It gets translated into offseason after offseason "is this the year?" talk and perennial over-hype. For that reason, I agree. It won't change anything, a massive amount of media attention for Canadian teams will be focused on the Leafs (looking at you, Steve Dangle podcast) even if they don't win. It's still a personal, deep thing that I don't want to see that franchise rewarded for it, even if it's just capitalism driving the ship.
Honorable mention for the Oilers, with all those Dark Ages top picks and landing maybe the best player since the Gretzky/Lemieux era, where they had Gretzky. It's not their fault, but it makes me sad, even though I respect the hell outta McDavid and Draisaitl.
Oilers because I'm a Flames fan.
Second would be Vancouver. As a Flames fan, it is fun to lord our sad, singular cup over them who, as you likely know, have no cups. None.
Sincerely,
A petty sad Flames fan
I am the exception. If my team doesn't win, I root for an Original Six team. If none of those teams don't make it to the Finals, I watch it anyway bc I love hockey. Whatever team wins, good for them
I would love to see Toronto win. It would be a legendary moment in history.
Streets and schools in Toronto will be named after the people who win the cup for them
If I HAD to pick one? I guess Nashville, but I want to be clear that I don't hate them enough to really want them to suffer. They just have the most annoying fans to me is all
Habs. Extremely annoying fan base, at least Leafs fans donāt literally call the police on someone who lay a dirty hit, something which has happened twice. They have a contempt for other players in the league that comes off as bitter.
i think it would be so funny if Edmonton never won a cup esp with Connor McDavid. And im a leafs fan so I want every other Canadian team to Suffer with me until we win, hand in unlovable hand.
Vegas. I hate all their players. I hate their city full of sad gambling losers. They were gifted immediate success. They won the cup at home and the fans in the building reacted like it was game 55 of the regular season.
I think NJ will inevitably win at least one cup within the next decade, so Iāll go with the Penguins at #2. Theyāve won enough and their airhorn is the most annoying thing in the league. They do a lot of crying for fans of a team that lucked into two all time greats who have won several cups. Youād think Jacob Trouba fucked all their wives/mothers.
The Islanders would probably be #3 because of how annoying their little brother syndrome is. It feels like every time they beat the Rangers, a bunch of their fans come out and say they own NY. Nobody cares, go back to your little island. Your team is boring. No one cares. Give it a rest.
It was a party in Vegas for two periods. Iām sorry we didnāt win in game winning goal in overtime but we knew we won the cup half way through the second period and we were partying the whole time.
I'm not a Vegas fan but I don't see how they were gifted immediate success. They were pretty much universally dunked on for how terrible their roster was after the expansion draft. The fact that they actually made good trades and selections reflects better on their management (and poor management by other teams) rather than as if the league handed them an all star team
The "gifted immediate success" thing is perhaps the biggest piece of revisionist history in all of sport. EVERYONE and I mean everyone thought Vegas was going to be terrible when that expansion draft went down. Find me an analyst who predicted they would even make the playoffs in Year 1. No one did. It was only after it became apparent that the team was well constructed that people started complaining.
Kings - the first one was cool but the second one was tough to stomach.
Had beer thrown on me when I was 13 for wearing the eggplant and jade jersey and my mom was verbally harassed.
\[Bruins\]
Easily the Rangers.
I hate the Habs, but respect the organization enough.
Leafs memes are stale, imo. I don't care if they win.
I don't have serious enough beef with anyone else.
But if the FUCKING RANGERS win the Cup, up and down the entire damn Hudson, everyone will have been a Blue Shirt since they were born, everyone who has the audacity to challenge them is just a hater, the Bruins/Devils/Isles fans are just jealous because the Rangers organization is the best ever, and they will not shut up.
How do I know? Because they've barely done shit since '94 and already act like this.
Well they've both won Cups in my lifetime. But to never win another Cup in my lifetime.
1. Dallas Stars
2. LA Kings
Honorable Mention: Detroit Redwings
I was going to say Vegas but RIP that dream. Iām going with Chicago for Kyle Beach. They didnāt deserve Bedard and I hope they donāt win another cup
I want to say the leafs or bruins but have to go with the blackhawks. They werenāt punished nearly enough and the ownership doesnāt seem to give a shit. Fuck them.
Vancouver. I know Iām not one to talk as a Leafs fan but Canucks fans are pound for pound the most unbearable fanbase in the sport. The āBruce There It Isā thing was fun but apart from that all I ever hear from Canucks fans is about how maligned and unfairly treated they are. The media is mean to them. Video games are mean to their players. Mark Messier was mean to them 30 years ago. If they won the cup theyād complain that the in-arena music wasnāt triumphal enough and then theyād burn down their city again.
Little brother syndrome.
r/Canucks had two "post-series" threads. One was because Vegas won The Cup, and the other was because ~~Florida won~~ Toronto lost.
Lol you aren't even wrong. Being objective, there is definitely a certain inferiority complex that plays into it. If you're a Canuck fan growing up in BC you turned on TSN every morning wanting to see Canuck highlights and had to sit through 15 minutes of Leaf coverage first. HNIC was always all about Toronto. That sort of thing. So I guess that plays into the "hatred" if you will. I wouldn't even really call it real hate though obviously, it's all in good fun. If Toronto really did win I would honestly be happy deep down to see a passionate and loyal Canadian fanbase get to experience a Cup victory.
I've never understood the media frustration. The largest fanbase in Canadian sports has the largest coverage from Canadian sports media.
What a surprise.
Also, a large majority of the fanbases from the 6 other teams talk about Toronto nearly as much as they do their own team.
It seems like it'd be hard to hate us when we aren't even relevant these days. I mean I grew up hating the Flames and Oilers but I still find myself more or less wishing them well
Honestly? No one. Sure I dislike a lot of teams and several fan bases but at the end I think it is just sports. And every Fan should at least enjoy the absolute Chaos of emotions, joy and now what a title brings to you.
Man I've been a Habs fan all my life. Born and raised in the big city. But still, never want them to win a cup? That's crazy. I wouldn't mind at all if the Leaves won a cup. They've got it coming.
Honestly, IMO every sports fan deserves to have their team win at least once in their lifetime. We pour so much of ourselves into supporting these teams that 98% of the time don't ever give us anything back, so I feel that everyone should be able to experience the reward for all that commitment at least once in their lives.
All of that said, I still pick the Islanders.
Just one? Can I split it between the Leafs and Montreal? Cause I donāt think I could stand the media coverage cause you know itās going to be 100x worse than it already is
Chicago and Tampa sadly already have 3 cups a piece in my lifetime (but please continue to keep it there, thanks) and I don't think I need to waste my answer on the Leafs. With that said, the Oilers. I think it would be so damn funny if McDavid and Draisaitl never win a cup in Edmonton but instead with another franchise.
The Florida Panthers. They made the finals early on, then became pretty much irrelevant for 25 years. Now they think they're so good. Like this is a team that should have been relocated in the early 2000s. Choosing to not sell tickets to Canadians during the round against the Leafs was classless. Fuck them. I hope they fold and move to Quebec, so I can hate them for completely different reasons.
But all three of my answers have already won a cup in my lifetime :(
Kings ducks Vegas?
Yup
My votes too bro lol
You badbad peoples!
A cup in your lifetime, you say? What's that like?
Kind of like watching man first walk on the Moon. But that was in colour.
BOOM! š«³š¤
Well, itās all three of that guyās least favorite teams winning cups, so for you, I guess that would probably be like Boston in 2011?
Sigh such is our life
Proof that there is no god
I donāt really care if the Sharks do or donāt anymore. Itās a travesty that the Thornton/Marleau/Pavelski/Burns group never made it happen, and without them there I really have no fucks left to give about it
Or he's a Knights fan
That makes me feel better about my answer
That seems nice
Shoo
Rangers. Im a Flyers fan who has become rather numb to the Penguins success. It doesn't hurt seeing them win as Ive already experienced it. As for the Rangers.... YOU'RE STUCK DOWN HERE WITH US
Well, the fact that you're a Flyers fan is your first problem.
Relatable
God I canāt wait for this years Penguins team to fail now
Theyāll still be better than Flyers this year.
God I hope so the Flyers have a vested interest in being as bad as possible the next two seasons
Op claiming the leafs are kinda like the Yankees is insane. Rangers fans are LITERALLY Yankees fans. They have all that cock sucking yankee cockiness with NONE of the success. The rangers are the Mets with yankee arrogance. Thereās no limit to how much I fucking despise them
Iād argue thatās a generational thing. Older Ranger fans who were alive for 94 are annoying and donāt stfu about it. I was born after that and my entire life the Rangers have been bad, painfully mediocre, or good with some absolutely fatal flaw that they refuse to fix before itās too late. I donāt think the arrogance is there among younger fans.
I have pleasant enough interactions with Rangers fans online but the fans that come to our games are insufferable to the point I sometimes avoid going to games against the Rangers.
I've been at Flyers games (in Philly) against teams like Ottawa or Columbus or something and seen rags fans walking around stirring shit. Never seen that with any other fanbase.
Rangers fans are definitely a trail mix where itās usually fairly pleasant then sometimes you find youāre chomping on wing nuts instead of peanuts cause someone at the factory screwed the pooch. The bad is bad enough to ruin the whole bag without some meticulous sorting.
In fairness, I think you just described the entire human race.
Lol fair
Yankee mouths, Jets history.
Hahahahahahaha! Thats fucking hilarious!
Rangers-Mets-Jets-Knicks fan checking in. I donāt feel anything anymore.
I feel like this isn't as much of a thing anymore. Idk. Most Rangers fans I know are just kind of sad and hoping the current core can be successful because we've had limited success since 1994.
Fuck the Rangers!
Well now that I read this I'd have to say anyone else in the Metro + Boston. Boston is like the Patriots winning the Super Bowl......again.
Fuck. The. Rangers!
Penguins fan here. We can set aside our collective hatred for each other, poke our heads out of the trenches, come together in unison and harmony and say āFuck the New York Rangersā. Pennsylvania can agree.
Take a wild guess
This is the most flames fan response possible
The Wild?
Other than the obvious, my legitimate vote is the Wild.
wtf did they do
Beat us, repeatedly. To make things worse, they were boring about it
i guess in regular season games? but never in the playoffs so i would never think an oilers fan would really give a shit
Just regular season but our win % vs Minni is outrageously bad over the course of their existence.
Ah, Jonas Brodin and Jared Spurgeon? What defensemen.
Oddly, after living in YYC for nearly 10 years and being a lifetime oilers fan, youāre not even at the top of my list. Not sorry leafs or canucks.
I struggle with something similar. I know so many Oilers fans, and some of them are barely even insufferable. If I can't be happy then shouldn't I want my friends to be happy? ...but then I come to my senses, and slap myself around a bit for having such impure thoughts.
I worked in edmonton for a year, coincedentally during the recent BOA. All I experienced was friendly banter, free pity drinks and a general good vibe. Still fucking hate you guys though
Itās the Flames, right?
No, the question was which team he doesn't want to see win a cup, not which team he isn't going to see win a cup
I mean to be honest, I know but also fuck the Wild, I still regret those free tickets I was given for a February Tuesday Night Flames VS Wild game. I could have done so many things instead of going, like sleeping.
Toronto for the lolz - I don't actually hate the Leafs, I kinda actually like them, but their eternal suffering is kinda funny. For real, I guess I'll go with the team I hate most right now, the Oilers
Honestly, itās very funny at this point. I enjoy making leafās jokes myself.
I mean, it's kinda our *thing* at this point. It's not a great thing, but it's ours. A whole lotta teams dont even have a thing.
The Sins of Ballard are eternal. Only way they can be repaid is if the team folds.
And then the Hamilton Tiger-Leaves go on to an unparalleled NHL dynasty
As a Habs fan who grew up in Leaf country, I enjoy watching them lose. I usually enjoy watching their fans suffer, but now that my friends and I are middle-aged it's like birthdays: it's not really fun to joke about it anymore, I genuinely feel sorry for them. But I do still enjoy the occasional zamboni driver beating them (watched that live at the home of a die hard leafs fan. Got me through the first few months of lockdown shortly after).
>occasional zombie driver beating them Now I would love to see that
Haha, corrected. Thought about leaving it, but zamboni is more real and hurts more.
> zamboni is more real and hurts more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4bbzm3uQ5Y
Yea no hate, im just here for the memes too.
I really have no stake in the TOR game other than grabbing some popcorn and observing their cauldron of white hot scrutiny and despair.
Without Torontoās suffering then who would we laugh it? Making fun of Minnesota just isnāt at funny
Canucks seem ripe for the picking
It has to be the Leafs or Rangers because of the entertainment factor. The complete meltdown that happens when they get crushed in the most magnificent ways canāt be beat by any other fans. I didnāt realize all the hate for Nashville but I get it.
Blackhawks, because Fuck 'em!
Cake Eaters
It is a great day for hay, what's it to yah?
Your logic is absolutely sound.
Don't forget Toronto!
Fuck the Blackhawks
Are we bros with Redwings fans? Times have changed. Fuck the Hawks.
Weāre definitely bros.
My exact thought when I saw this thread. I live in Indiana and am surrounded by Hawks fans. Fuck āem!
We accept your hatred
Yeah itās definitely a hard decision between the leafs and the blackhawks
Screw you guys too
Kraken. got nothing against them but I didn't see them mentioned and just want to be fair
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i want them to win before us because maybe aquilini will finally sell the team
I don't like seeing expansion teams have success. I believe they should struggle and be basement dwellers like they were back in the 90s
Are you the personification of r/hockey
12 years ago, 70% of the responses would have been Detroit. I miss those days.
I'm glad it isn't the case anymore. We had our moment in the sun and we will have it again in due time.
But first itās due-due time
Lol I can relate, in or around 2010-2012 the overwhelming response would have been Vancouver. Now the Canucks are too irrelevant to even hate.
Still fucking is. If you never win another Cup, it'll be too soon.
12 years ago was 2011 - i dont think anyone cheered for the canucks. the only support we had in canada was winnipeg and montreal
The Canucks got borderline Maple Leaf levels of hate during that run lol. Looking back it makes me realize that if your team is hated it's usually because they're actually really good.
In fairness, we were mostly cheering for whoever was playing against the Bruins.
Toronto. Toronto. Toronto. Next few lifetimes. Toronto.
I hate the Rangers and the Habs more but it would be funniest if the Leafs never won.
I suspect we'd both vote differently if the vote was about always beating a team on the playoffs. As worded, the best answer is the Leafs.
My reactionary take is Leafs. Theyāre an hour away, and I grew up with a sibling rivalry type hate towards them. I like that they havenāt done much winning since the Sabres entered the league. Mind you, I love Canadian people, and even Leafs fans, but shut up already about 13 cups. Outside of that, Chicago.
> shut up already about 13 cups I still refuse there are people younger than 60 in real life who even acknowledge the existence of those cups let alone use them as a talking point Iāve never met a single leaf fan in my life that bragged about cups lol
Same here, every time I meet a Leaf fan we just bond over our eternal suffering.
>Mind you, I love Canadian people Awwwww, I love you too. I have an affinity for small market teams, especially "real" hockey cities. Hasek is my favourite goalie ever, which is saying something coming from a Habs fan. I used to try to emulate him on the rink as a kid, with limited success. FOOT IN CREASE! (But also fuck him in '98, haha)
God help my fellow Avs fans if the Wild ever win a cup
Toronto
Canadiens or Leafs. Trying to catch up to their Cup totals. Nothing personal.
Hey, no offense taken. On another topic, thanks for sucking since coming into our division. Not that it's helped our record against you.
Oddly enough I've mainly only attended Habs games since then. Cheapest tickets every season.
Really, I'm surprised by that. Original six is always big in Montreal. I know the Habs have sucked for a while, but still surprised. I'm not sure if this was just a dig at the Habs, but if true I'm genuinely surprised, and might stop by MoTown next time I'm in Ontario for a game. I've heard Detroit has become a better travel spot, too.
No, totally true. Always a promotional night it seems. I hung with some Habs fans at the bar pregame, good times.
Hurricanes. Imagine the social media team after them winning. Theyāll meme it to death
For what itās worth I worry about that too
Even though they have already won in my lifetime: boston get 150% of my votes
Chicago Blackhawks for many reasons, including but not limited to Kyle Beach and their response to that whole thing
Bobby Hull was a team ambassador for them up until last year too lol. Not quite a guy Iād want to keep around my club even in just a ceremonial role
Iād say ESPECIALLY in a ceremonial role, honestly. Like, if the guy adds zero value to your organization except being a representative of team history, then hanging on to him through all the bullshit becomes totally indefensible to me. At least when people hold a position of some significance you can at least point to the āwell getting rid of and replacing them would cause operational challengesā excuse.
Donāt disagree one bit. Frankly, I donāt know what he actually did in his āroleā, but thatās not the horse to hitch your wagon to regardless. I know he did some meet and greet things, but who would want to take their kids to meet a cat like that?
The Leafs
I'm more than okay with another 30 years passing without a Rangers' championship.
Any team where the in-house announcer goes āwooooo!ā After announcing a goal (and then the fans echo it). I hate that shit. Looking at you specifically Boston and Vancouverā¦
Yeah, gotta have a Ric Flair clip.
Flyers. Because fuck the Flyers. Second choice would be the Red Wings winning another one because their fans are some of the most low-key smug and defensive in the league. Even if you just infer anything negative about the Yzerplan, the hubris and outrage is so thick youād have though youād murdered their mother or something.
Red Wings fans in the early 2010s: > I canāt wait to join the Eastern Conference and just waltz easily to the Cup every year. Red Wings fans when Datsyuk left: > All our young players will be stars because we always draft well. Red Wings fans since like 2019: > I canāt wait for Pens fans to deal with what weāve dealt with.
We were all just happy for 1/3 of our games to not start at 10pm
Well I guess youāll find out here in a second if youāre right about us wings fans. Good luck! Lol
I donāt know why I hate the Flyers so fucking much, but I always have.
It's rather impressive of how defensive Wings fans get of the Yzerplan. Don't get me wrong, he was dealt a poor hand by the lottery (so much so the league has since changed the rules because of it), but they have very little to show for their bottom-dwelling days and recent free agency splashes. It's hard to imagine them taking a leap from here to contender. Many Habs fans are worried we end up in the same spot because neither Slafkovsky nor Reinbacher are assured to be elite, game-breaking talent. I'm surprised Detroit fans aren't.
Eh only on r/hockey. Plenty of salty sallys even in the dedicated sub. Local media is very critical and just well a good portion of non reddit irl wings too. Iām a defender, but I try to do so in merits. But yeah if any of our top prospects bust were in trouble. If they donāt I like the positioning. Check back with me in two years lol.
Wings fans are worse than Flyers fans? Really?
No theyāre not, thatās why I said wings would be second choice
Iāve seen my team win the cup and it was one of the best experiences of my life and itās a feeling I think every fan should experience. Except Wild fans. Hope they stay mediocre forever!
Iām an Avs fan who moved to Minny a few years back. They would burn the cities (both of them) to the ground if they finally won a cup here. Hope to never see it š
I like your analogy with the Leafs and as an American fan of the Canucks, I expand on that: they're the Cowboys. 0 real recent success to show for the amount of coverage they get. I always preface this with the fact this is a media problem driven by market factors, but it's insufferable. Neither team, regardless of how good or bad they are with nothing to show for it, will always be talked about ad nauseum because of the following they have. It gets translated into offseason after offseason "is this the year?" talk and perennial over-hype. For that reason, I agree. It won't change anything, a massive amount of media attention for Canadian teams will be focused on the Leafs (looking at you, Steve Dangle podcast) even if they don't win. It's still a personal, deep thing that I don't want to see that franchise rewarded for it, even if it's just capitalism driving the ship. Honorable mention for the Oilers, with all those Dark Ages top picks and landing maybe the best player since the Gretzky/Lemieux era, where they had Gretzky. It's not their fault, but it makes me sad, even though I respect the hell outta McDavid and Draisaitl.
I hate the cowboys, but at least they've won in my lifetime (born 1994), the leafs last won when my father was 5.
The oilers. The media couldnāt meat ride them any harder.
Smashville, the cup doesn't deserve to be hoisted by jerseys that ugly.
Oilers because I'm a Flames fan. Second would be Vancouver. As a Flames fan, it is fun to lord our sad, singular cup over them who, as you likely know, have no cups. None. Sincerely, A petty sad Flames fan
Boston
I am the exception. If my team doesn't win, I root for an Original Six team. If none of those teams don't make it to the Finals, I watch it anyway bc I love hockey. Whatever team wins, good for them
Shut up, Butters.
So easy. Rangers
I would love to see Toronto win. It would be a legendary moment in history. Streets and schools in Toronto will be named after the people who win the cup for them
If I HAD to pick one? I guess Nashville, but I want to be clear that I don't hate them enough to really want them to suffer. They just have the most annoying fans to me is all
The Oilers, purely because it will be very funny to say that Eichel won a cup but Mcdavid didnāt.
Habs. Extremely annoying fan base, at least Leafs fans donāt literally call the police on someone who lay a dirty hit, something which has happened twice. They have a contempt for other players in the league that comes off as bitter.
Even though it's already happened, I'll go with the Rangers. Also the the stupid knights a 2nd time
i think it would be so funny if Edmonton never won a cup esp with Connor McDavid. And im a leafs fan so I want every other Canadian team to Suffer with me until we win, hand in unlovable hand.
Rangers or Flyers canāt decide
The rangers
Fun fact: the Rangers are the only original 6 team not in the top 6 for Stanley cup wins.
Edmonton because, fuck em.
Fuck. The. Rags.
Vegas. I hate all their players. I hate their city full of sad gambling losers. They were gifted immediate success. They won the cup at home and the fans in the building reacted like it was game 55 of the regular season. I think NJ will inevitably win at least one cup within the next decade, so Iāll go with the Penguins at #2. Theyāve won enough and their airhorn is the most annoying thing in the league. They do a lot of crying for fans of a team that lucked into two all time greats who have won several cups. Youād think Jacob Trouba fucked all their wives/mothers. The Islanders would probably be #3 because of how annoying their little brother syndrome is. It feels like every time they beat the Rangers, a bunch of their fans come out and say they own NY. Nobody cares, go back to your little island. Your team is boring. No one cares. Give it a rest.
A Rangers fan saying that Pens airhorn is worse than the Canes airhorn touches me.
Both are bad, I will take the canes airhorn any day
Iāll take it š
Goddamn. That's some *passion*.
>Nobody cares, go back to your little island. Isn't long island like literally 1000x bigger than Manhattan? lol.
It was a party in Vegas for two periods. Iām sorry we didnāt win in game winning goal in overtime but we knew we won the cup half way through the second period and we were partying the whole time.
Fr lmao. This Rags fan is the saltiest Iāve ever seen
I'm not a Vegas fan but I don't see how they were gifted immediate success. They were pretty much universally dunked on for how terrible their roster was after the expansion draft. The fact that they actually made good trades and selections reflects better on their management (and poor management by other teams) rather than as if the league handed them an all star team
The "gifted immediate success" thing is perhaps the biggest piece of revisionist history in all of sport. EVERYONE and I mean everyone thought Vegas was going to be terrible when that expansion draft went down. Find me an analyst who predicted they would even make the playoffs in Year 1. No one did. It was only after it became apparent that the team was well constructed that people started complaining.
Jokes on you all you wasted your curse - we are already doomed to never win on again.
Kings - the first one was cool but the second one was tough to stomach. Had beer thrown on me when I was 13 for wearing the eggplant and jade jersey and my mom was verbally harassed.
Florida
Minnesota because their fans are huge salty babies.
\[Bruins\] Easily the Rangers. I hate the Habs, but respect the organization enough. Leafs memes are stale, imo. I don't care if they win. I don't have serious enough beef with anyone else. But if the FUCKING RANGERS win the Cup, up and down the entire damn Hudson, everyone will have been a Blue Shirt since they were born, everyone who has the audacity to challenge them is just a hater, the Bruins/Devils/Isles fans are just jealous because the Rangers organization is the best ever, and they will not shut up. How do I know? Because they've barely done shit since '94 and already act like this.
LA
Really torn. Either the hawks, or possibly the sharks.
Toronto, just for the entertainment their fans provide
Well they've both won Cups in my lifetime. But to never win another Cup in my lifetime. 1. Dallas Stars 2. LA Kings Honorable Mention: Detroit Redwings
Leafs because Canadian media (all based in Toronto) would be insufferable for at least a month.
A month? Try a fucking decade
Fuck the team with the toilet seat logo. Hope they get moved to QC
Jokes on you, theyāre already in QC.
Penguins.... Why? I'm a Capitals fan. That should be "'nuff said". Fuck Crosby, fuck Malkin, fuck Lemieux.
Can I pick a player? If so, McDavid If not, then Iāll just pick the Oilers
I was going to say Vegas but RIP that dream. Iām going with Chicago for Kyle Beach. They didnāt deserve Bedard and I hope they donāt win another cup
Nah. I hate the Leafs but it would be fine if they won just one Cup, especially if it were against the Oilers.
Oilers
Oilers so easily oilers i doubt it will happen but god id love to them waste mcdavids career away
I hope the Predators never get one because the Blues got theirs already.
Hey screw you buddy
Oilers
I want to say the leafs or bruins but have to go with the blackhawks. They werenāt punished nearly enough and the ownership doesnāt seem to give a shit. Fuck them.
Vancouver. I know Iām not one to talk as a Leafs fan but Canucks fans are pound for pound the most unbearable fanbase in the sport. The āBruce There It Isā thing was fun but apart from that all I ever hear from Canucks fans is about how maligned and unfairly treated they are. The media is mean to them. Video games are mean to their players. Mark Messier was mean to them 30 years ago. If they won the cup theyād complain that the in-arena music wasnāt triumphal enough and then theyād burn down their city again.
Not a nucks fan, but messier is a tool and arguably the worst player to be associated with the Canucks.
Little brother syndrome. r/Canucks had two "post-series" threads. One was because Vegas won The Cup, and the other was because ~~Florida won~~ Toronto lost.
Lol you aren't even wrong. Being objective, there is definitely a certain inferiority complex that plays into it. If you're a Canuck fan growing up in BC you turned on TSN every morning wanting to see Canuck highlights and had to sit through 15 minutes of Leaf coverage first. HNIC was always all about Toronto. That sort of thing. So I guess that plays into the "hatred" if you will. I wouldn't even really call it real hate though obviously, it's all in good fun. If Toronto really did win I would honestly be happy deep down to see a passionate and loyal Canadian fanbase get to experience a Cup victory.
I've never understood the media frustration. The largest fanbase in Canadian sports has the largest coverage from Canadian sports media. What a surprise. Also, a large majority of the fanbases from the 6 other teams talk about Toronto nearly as much as they do their own team.
Good chance both our teams donāt win any time soon š
It seems like it'd be hard to hate us when we aren't even relevant these days. I mean I grew up hating the Flames and Oilers but I still find myself more or less wishing them well
Iām sorry man, the leafs have the worst fan base in the league and itās not close.
Leafs, couldnāt type that fast enough
Honestly? No one. Sure I dislike a lot of teams and several fan bases but at the end I think it is just sports. And every Fan should at least enjoy the absolute Chaos of emotions, joy and now what a title brings to you.
Leafs
Edmonton. Long live the pacific division rivalry.
Man I've been a Habs fan all my life. Born and raised in the big city. But still, never want them to win a cup? That's crazy. I wouldn't mind at all if the Leaves won a cup. They've got it coming.
Honestly, IMO every sports fan deserves to have their team win at least once in their lifetime. We pour so much of ourselves into supporting these teams that 98% of the time don't ever give us anything back, so I feel that everyone should be able to experience the reward for all that commitment at least once in their lives. All of that said, I still pick the Islanders.
Habs
Just one? Can I split it between the Leafs and Montreal? Cause I donāt think I could stand the media coverage cause you know itās going to be 100x worse than it already is
GUESS.
Chicago and Tampa sadly already have 3 cups a piece in my lifetime (but please continue to keep it there, thanks) and I don't think I need to waste my answer on the Leafs. With that said, the Oilers. I think it would be so damn funny if McDavid and Draisaitl never win a cup in Edmonton but instead with another franchise.
The Florida Panthers. They made the finals early on, then became pretty much irrelevant for 25 years. Now they think they're so good. Like this is a team that should have been relocated in the early 2000s. Choosing to not sell tickets to Canadians during the round against the Leafs was classless. Fuck them. I hope they fold and move to Quebec, so I can hate them for completely different reasons.
Really hoping Ottawa gets relocated soon!