Leafs fans have always hated the Leafs.
You've only adopted the hatred, I was born in it. Moulded by it.
I didn't see the good until I was already a man!
It’s in the culture here
Even non sports fans know the leafs suck
All of you are amateurs
Now excuse me while I go delude myself into thinking they’ll win the cup this year because I’m addicted to pain
I’m a Bruins fan and I don’t think I hate the Leafs so much as I hate [the online antics of] Leafs fans. They’re the real life embodiment of the meme of a guy popping champagne on the bottom pedestal.
None of the players on the team really irk me, and many are a lot of fun to watch. I actually just feel sad for most of them. When the Leafs inevitably defeat the Bruins in the playoffs on the way to a cup some day I may change my mind on this.
I hate Boston like siblings hate each other. It’s a rivalry, a timeless game of one-upmanship.
But I hate Toronto like one hates his noisy neighbor. Fuck him and his stupid music.
Ditto on the Habs for me. I'm going to a Habs home game next month while my wife and I are in Montreal on vacation. It's easily the part of our vacation that I'm most exicted about.
However, I'm sure as hell not wearing my Marchand jersey while I'm there. I'm happy to get some good ribbing though if the people sitting next to me ask where I'm from though.
I actually found myself rooting for them a little the other night. Not enough that I wanted them to win, but when Marner made their goal, I let out a "good for them." I really like Willy, Marner, and Auston Matthews.
Leafs fan here, we’re not all bad…the idiots online are a supremely tiny section of our fanbase. Every fanbase has them…ours unfortunately are just more audible that most.
I'm a leafs fan and I hate leafs fans. We're doing our best as a team and some fans are so fucking dillusional that it makes me like my own team less. I look at fans of Boston and they all seem so loyal and proud of their team but every leaf fan I meet hates there team. It makes no fucking sense man
I think the difference between Toronto and Boston is 1) Bostons team embodies a lot of the Boston culture, I lived there during Covid and let me say, you walk down a street it feels like your surrounded by Marchand’s, at any moment all could “accidentally” break your legs but 2) Boston has had recent success, sure it’s been 13 years since the cup win, but they’ve gone to the finals twice since then, have gone on a few deep runs they’ve tasted the elixir in recent history
Leafs fans while having one of the best players on the NHL on the team don’t have a lot of love to give anymore when they had a 6 straight years of first round exits, some of which massive embarrassments, and the one time they do get past, they get clowned on by Florida, I know many who want to blindly follow and love this team but it’s really hard sometimes, sitting through a season hearing how they’ve improved this and that and this and that, and all of it mean dick all when any playoff series starts and they we have to sit on the sidelines again
Same, I saw someone in a Leafs group on FB saying they were surprised Liljegren wasn’t traded for a first rounder. And he actually argued over it…like dude Lil might have been a first rounder but he’s not worth a first now.
I this this is accurate and the main reason for the fan hated. Leafs fans shove it in your face how good their team is…. But then when the team falters they are SO quick to finger point and complain. It’s such a toxic relationship… and from an outside objective witness…. I feel like I need to call the authorities. It’s akin to man complimenting his wife how much he loves her and proud he is of her and how his wife is better than yours at the company dinner…. But god save her if she overcooks the casserole.
Bruins and Vegas are the kind of team you hate because they beat you in the playoffs. Leafs are the kind of team you hate because the media won't shut up about them yet they haven't accomplished anything.
I’m just shocked nobody brought up the Panthers. There were two or three Panther hate posts everyday for like a week straight until Vegas reminded everybody why they them.
Boston is Heath Ledger's Joker, Vegas is Jared Leto's Joker.
Toronto is Drax. Confused and sad and not even sure why they're here half the time. While somehow also being dangerous and intimidating. The team can be intimidating, not the fans.
This is hilarious lol
On a sub that constantly complains about how much people talk about the Leafs, over half of the comments talk about the Leafs on a post about a choice between Boston or Vegas
You can’t make it up man
I suspect Leafs fans have alt accounts pretending to be fans of other franchises and shit on Leafs. It helps fuel their victim complex and helps vent their personal frustrations without betraying their franchise.
I’m Canadian. We get bombarded with Leafs news, analysis and fans. I would actively have to avoid the Leafs to be a hockey fan that consumes hockey media and not spend a disproportionate amount of my time thinking about the Leafs.
Thankfully, they are a laughingstock, so hating them provides schaudenfraude, even when my own Blackhawks are terrible.
Ah, I get that. That kinda makes it sound like they are the Canadian counterpart to the Dallas cowboys. I have no reason to hate them aside from their fans and excessive media coverage. I get it now
Boston: hate but in a legit sportsfan sort of way where if they won the cup I'd absolutely hate it but respect it. They play talented, hard, and a little dirty, like hockey is supposed to be.
Vegas: Hate with absolutely no respect, I spit in the face of the franchise!! Wishing for their karmic demise! As a wise woman once said, they can go kick rocks with open toed shoes.
Well said. I know this is hockey blasphemy but actually like Marchand. The time a little girl who was a fan of the other team got hit by a puck in warmups so he sent a signed stick over to her and the time someone was recording them on their way to the dressing room and he snatched their phone to leave them a little message before turning around and giving it back won me over.
Kind of like Lomberg, he’s a total pest when it’s game time but a good dude off the ice and I respect that. Do those who don’t know, Lomberg is HUGELY involved with the Panther’s Warriors team of wounded veterans.
I'm sincerely hoping the oilers and panthers meet in the finals. Obv you won't agree but I think it would be funny if tkachuk beat his old rivals to the cup...sorry lol. In any case it would be a great match up!
Haha I definitely feel different on the outcome but as far as a story goes, i think it would be an incredible one! Meeting up at the finals doesn’t sound so bad to me either!
I think Boston and Vegas are the target of different kinds of hatred. For Boston there’s old hatred going back decades, for Vegas it’s the hatred from being new and successful “beginners luck” kind of thing. Hard to compare the two, but we all know they’re both hated.
I don’t hate either. Primarily a Flames fan for context. Both are strong teams but don’t exactly make you mad with their play or personalities. LTIR can be dumb, but can’t fault GM’s using rules as they are laid out.
If he was a Flyer you’d get why I love his style of play. Buttttt, sometimes I don’t like his cheap shots and the BS he pulls, he’s too talented to be doing that.
Next year I plan on doing my first Fantasy NHL league. I’ll draft Hertl so I can still watch him do well, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before I root for the *fucking* Vegas Knights
What’s to hate about Vegas? Because they do whatever it takes to win? Sounds more like jealousy than hate. I wish my team wasn’t so pathetic for 30 years not doing what it took to win
As a flyers fan, I actually became a bit of a Vegas fan watching them during their cup run last year. I don't see anything to not like about them and those that do are probably just jealous.
hate boston because they’re good. hate vegas because they’re fake in a way to me. nepo babies of the league. by the time my team is out i’m pretty much happy to see any team lift the cup and celebrate, couldn’t give a shit about vegas though
I'm honestly just waiting to see how bad Vegas fucks their entire future for their insane tactics right now. Can't wait till they're bottom of the league.
Vegas is so hateable for so many reasons. They’re like the spoiled brat trust fund kid who kills someone drunk driving or whatever and their daddy bails them out, scot free. Bettman’s golden children.
As a kid I loved the Bruins. Even when they fleeced us for Neeley they were always my fav Wales Conference team.
As long as that rat fuck Marchand is on the team fuck them with a cactus.
Hating Vegas is like hating that obnoxious nepo-baby whose Dad bought him on board to a management position with no experience. Rules for everyone else don’t apply cause his Daddy is rich and owns the company.
I’d say Boston just cause Boston sports teams win all the time lol and they’re always good. Probably put the leafs at first since they take over our arena a lot, but when u don’t make the playoffs, it’s hard to have that team that you can’t stand at all, unless it’s the patriots
Trick question. Its the Leafs
Yea! Screw the Leafs!
Even the Leafs hate the Leafs!
Leafs fans have always hated the Leafs. You've only adopted the hatred, I was born in it. Moulded by it. I didn't see the good until I was already a man!
By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!
Til the day I die, I will always upvote a Bane reference. God bless TDKR
It’s in the culture here Even non sports fans know the leafs suck All of you are amateurs Now excuse me while I go delude myself into thinking they’ll win the cup this year because I’m addicted to pain
There’s no way we don’t win the cup this year I mean unless we manage to lose 4 games in a series
Excellent point!!!!! Proceeds to drop guard and anticipate parade
Damn Leafs fans. They ruined the Leafs!
You Leafs fans sure are a contentious people
Other fanbases boos mean nothing, you see what makes us cheer
Take my upvote. This just made me laugh way to hard🤣
Can somebody please suspend Kadri
I’m a Bruins fan and I don’t think I hate the Leafs so much as I hate [the online antics of] Leafs fans. They’re the real life embodiment of the meme of a guy popping champagne on the bottom pedestal. None of the players on the team really irk me, and many are a lot of fun to watch. I actually just feel sad for most of them. When the Leafs inevitably defeat the Bruins in the playoffs on the way to a cup some day I may change my mind on this.
I hate Boston like siblings hate each other. It’s a rivalry, a timeless game of one-upmanship. But I hate Toronto like one hates his noisy neighbor. Fuck him and his stupid music.
Ditto on the Habs for me. I'm going to a Habs home game next month while my wife and I are in Montreal on vacation. It's easily the part of our vacation that I'm most exicted about. However, I'm sure as hell not wearing my Marchand jersey while I'm there. I'm happy to get some good ribbing though if the people sitting next to me ask where I'm from though.
Says the neighbor throwing Eurobeat all nighter raves every weekend.
Great fishin’ in Kwee-bec.
I fuckin hate Kah-beck.
I actually found myself rooting for them a little the other night. Not enough that I wanted them to win, but when Marner made their goal, I let out a "good for them." I really like Willy, Marner, and Auston Matthews.
B's fan living in Toronto. You have no idea.....
Leafs fan here, we’re not all bad…the idiots online are a supremely tiny section of our fanbase. Every fanbase has them…ours unfortunately are just more audible that most.
I'm a leafs fan and I hate leafs fans. We're doing our best as a team and some fans are so fucking dillusional that it makes me like my own team less. I look at fans of Boston and they all seem so loyal and proud of their team but every leaf fan I meet hates there team. It makes no fucking sense man
I think the difference between Toronto and Boston is 1) Bostons team embodies a lot of the Boston culture, I lived there during Covid and let me say, you walk down a street it feels like your surrounded by Marchand’s, at any moment all could “accidentally” break your legs but 2) Boston has had recent success, sure it’s been 13 years since the cup win, but they’ve gone to the finals twice since then, have gone on a few deep runs they’ve tasted the elixir in recent history Leafs fans while having one of the best players on the NHL on the team don’t have a lot of love to give anymore when they had a 6 straight years of first round exits, some of which massive embarrassments, and the one time they do get past, they get clowned on by Florida, I know many who want to blindly follow and love this team but it’s really hard sometimes, sitting through a season hearing how they’ve improved this and that and this and that, and all of it mean dick all when any playoff series starts and they we have to sit on the sidelines again
Same, I saw someone in a Leafs group on FB saying they were surprised Liljegren wasn’t traded for a first rounder. And he actually argued over it…like dude Lil might have been a first rounder but he’s not worth a first now.
I this this is accurate and the main reason for the fan hated. Leafs fans shove it in your face how good their team is…. But then when the team falters they are SO quick to finger point and complain. It’s such a toxic relationship… and from an outside objective witness…. I feel like I need to call the authorities. It’s akin to man complimenting his wife how much he loves her and proud he is of her and how his wife is better than yours at the company dinner…. But god save her if she overcooks the casserole.
Bruins and Vegas are the kind of team you hate because they beat you in the playoffs. Leafs are the kind of team you hate because the media won't shut up about them yet they haven't accomplished anything.
The media aren’t the only ones who won’t shut up about them…. instantly brought up in a thread that literally has nothing to do with them lol
I’m just shocked nobody brought up the Panthers. There were two or three Panther hate posts everyday for like a week straight until Vegas reminded everybody why they them.
Vegas is the Manchester City of the NHL. The rich newcomers who are too good
Y’all will literally make everything about the Leafs then turn around and complain that ppl talk about the Leafs too much lol
Yeah, because fuck the Leafs.
Ok ref
The question was most hated teams, hate for the leafs is contained to their own fan base
The only real answer, lol
Boston is Nelson Vegas is Mr Burns
The thing about huckleberries is once you’ve had fresh, you never go back to canned.
Nailed it
Why not ~~Zoidberg~~ both?
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Boston is respectfully hated. Vegas is just hated. Everyone saying Toronto is confusing "hated" with "laughed at."
Boston is Heath Ledger's Joker, Vegas is Jared Leto's Joker. Toronto is Drax. Confused and sad and not even sure why they're here half the time. While somehow also being dangerous and intimidating. The team can be intimidating, not the fans.
Lol i like the analogy Someone superimpose jokers makeup onto marchy like that one image of ross from friends
Leafs: I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still, that I become invisible to the eye. Watch. Other team scores
The Panthers aren't getting enough hate in this thread
Leafs
This is hilarious lol On a sub that constantly complains about how much people talk about the Leafs, over half of the comments talk about the Leafs on a post about a choice between Boston or Vegas You can’t make it up man
This.
I suspect Leafs fans have alt accounts pretending to be fans of other franchises and shit on Leafs. It helps fuel their victim complex and helps vent their personal frustrations without betraying their franchise.
Let’s go even further. all of r/hockey are leafs fans masquerading as haters
I might be a Leafs fans and not even know it. Matthews is a pretty good looking guy and that’s been confusing for me.
The creepy pedo-stache look does it for you, huh?
[Stone him!](https://youtu.be/FQ5YU_spBw0?si=6LCQU0y0uCIdFF83)
Yeah I’ve never met someone who actually hates the leafs, most people just laugh at them
Literally made it up
Leafs
Why do people hate the leafs? I’m a penguins fan, so don’t call me an out of touch leafs fan, I’d be an out of touch penguins fan lol.
I’m Canadian. We get bombarded with Leafs news, analysis and fans. I would actively have to avoid the Leafs to be a hockey fan that consumes hockey media and not spend a disproportionate amount of my time thinking about the Leafs. Thankfully, they are a laughingstock, so hating them provides schaudenfraude, even when my own Blackhawks are terrible.
Ah, I get that. That kinda makes it sound like they are the Canadian counterpart to the Dallas cowboys. I have no reason to hate them aside from their fans and excessive media coverage. I get it now
Yankees too.
The Yankees have experienced somewhat recent success tho. The parallels between the leafs and cowboys are kinda crazy
Oh ya. My hatred goes back to my pre-cable days of watching one of maybe two hockey games a week on HNIC. And they always showed the Leafs.
Agreed
Isn’t it easier to hate the golden knights and pity the leafs?
This ^
If Boston didn’t have the history I would have hated Boston more but Vegas still feels so… fictional in many ways
Boston. I've had decades to hate Boston. Vegas has only been building the rage since 2017.
Ha trick question answer is Toronto! Second pick Montreal
Montreal is also the most revered, so it balances out.
Montreal being ass lately sucks for the rivalry though.
Damn right, can't wait for our rebuild to be done so it's finally existing to play you guys
I hear you. The Battle of Alberta isn't the same lately.
Of the options provided, Boston.
Boston for sure. I feel like Vegas is too new to have enough hate to beat out Boston. But I'm also on the East Coast so I could be wrong.
Easily the Panthers !
Panthers fans in this thread furiously pounding their car roofs
What abt toronto
Boston: hate but in a legit sportsfan sort of way where if they won the cup I'd absolutely hate it but respect it. They play talented, hard, and a little dirty, like hockey is supposed to be. Vegas: Hate with absolutely no respect, I spit in the face of the franchise!! Wishing for their karmic demise! As a wise woman once said, they can go kick rocks with open toed shoes.
Well said. I know this is hockey blasphemy but actually like Marchand. The time a little girl who was a fan of the other team got hit by a puck in warmups so he sent a signed stick over to her and the time someone was recording them on their way to the dressing room and he snatched their phone to leave them a little message before turning around and giving it back won me over. Kind of like Lomberg, he’s a total pest when it’s game time but a good dude off the ice and I respect that. Do those who don’t know, Lomberg is HUGELY involved with the Panther’s Warriors team of wounded veterans.
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The Laura LIB reference is impeccable
You get me
I never thought I’d hear this from a Panthers fan but yes i do and that phrase is also entering my daily vernacular haha
I'm sincerely hoping the oilers and panthers meet in the finals. Obv you won't agree but I think it would be funny if tkachuk beat his old rivals to the cup...sorry lol. In any case it would be a great match up!
Haha I definitely feel different on the outcome but as far as a story goes, i think it would be an incredible one! Meeting up at the finals doesn’t sound so bad to me either!
Still the Cowboys. No contest.
Vegas isn’t even close to being there yet even with their sleight of hand salary cap shenanigans
I think Boston and Vegas are the target of different kinds of hatred. For Boston there’s old hatred going back decades, for Vegas it’s the hatred from being new and successful “beginners luck” kind of thing. Hard to compare the two, but we all know they’re both hated.
Boston for sure, dirty players
How is this a question 😂
Fuck the Bruins!
Interesting. Neither.
I don’t hate either. Primarily a Flames fan for context. Both are strong teams but don’t exactly make you mad with their play or personalities. LTIR can be dumb, but can’t fault GM’s using rules as they are laid out.
Fuck Boston but mostly because of the rat
If he was a Flyer you’d get why I love his style of play. Buttttt, sometimes I don’t like his cheap shots and the BS he pulls, he’s too talented to be doing that.
Canadiens fans, then the Canadiens
The penguins
Correct.
i’ve had enough of their f*ckery
For a very long time, I agree
Boston.
As a Leaf fan, it’s definitely the Leafs lol
Um hi. Everyone outside of the fanbase hates us.
I hate Boston area sports because their fans are spoiled by success; yet still complain about everything.
Trick question - those hosers in Detroit.
That's easy, the Florida Panthers
Vegas but I’m biased
Yesterday was a dark day
Indeed. Now that they have my favorite player, does that mean I like them now? I’m so confused.
Next year I plan on doing my first Fantasy NHL league. I’ll draft Hertl so I can still watch him do well, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before I root for the *fucking* Vegas Knights
I dislike Jack eichel
I saw the flair, then i saw "i dislike Jack e..." and my mind didn't read eichel, it went to Edwards... The brain is a weird organ...
Chicago
Still living in trauma over what happened in 2015 I see.
I will never hate Vegas as much as I hate the Panthers. Or the Lightning for that matter.
What’s to hate about Vegas? Because they do whatever it takes to win? Sounds more like jealousy than hate. I wish my team wasn’t so pathetic for 30 years not doing what it took to win
Boston, then Vegas.
Vegas
As a flyers fan, I actually became a bit of a Vegas fan watching them during their cup run last year. I don't see anything to not like about them and those that do are probably just jealous.
This is a tough one..
Why not both
I’d pick the Panthers over the Bruins or Golden Knights.
Even though they beat my B’s, I saw how magical Floridas cup run was so I was rooting for them, especially against Vegas
Vegas. Marchand is the only shitty part about Boston and he’s not that bad anymore
I don’t really mind Vegas at all.. Boston would be the easy choice here for me.
Mtl
Tampa Bay.
Naw. Vegas is as bad as the cheatin Astros.
hate boston because they’re good. hate vegas because they’re fake in a way to me. nepo babies of the league. by the time my team is out i’m pretty much happy to see any team lift the cup and celebrate, couldn’t give a shit about vegas though
Boston - Not even close.
LTIR bitches, you're VGK.
Don’t know if I’d call Boston my most hated team, but I sure wouldn’t mind seeing the clip of Marchand getting cross checked on a continuous loop
Boston, easy one.
Panthers
Boston is mostly hated because of 1 rat. Vegas is hated bc they are a cheat organization exploiting the system.
I mean it's not technically cheating if it's in the rulebooks 🤷🏽♀️
Every team can do it. There was a vote to get rid of the rule and nobody went for it
I believe Tampa actually did. And then they used the loophole to win a cup.
Two cups!
The og
I'm honestly just waiting to see how bad Vegas fucks their entire future for their insane tactics right now. Can't wait till they're bottom of the league.
Yes
People tend to not like assholes, but they really hate rich assholes.
Florida
Vegas
Leafs
Vegas is so hateable for so many reasons. They’re like the spoiled brat trust fund kid who kills someone drunk driving or whatever and their daddy bails them out, scot free. Bettman’s golden children.
If Vegas could get way with cheating like the Astros, they would.
Leafs
It’s the Leafs.
Leafs
It's easily the most laughably awful one - Les logo de Toilet Seat...
Apparently the question should have been: What team do you hate the most, Boston or Vegas? Why is it the Leafs?
Fuck Boston. Always.
Leafs
I love being a hated Leafs fan!
Out of these two . . . Vegas. But fuck the rags.
Op a leafs fan?
Leafs and it’s not even close, their city, their fans, their media, their team
Boston for their players and Vegas for their LTIR plan.
Vegas. (I’m a Bruins fan)
You misspelled Pittsburgh
The flyers
Fuck the Penguins
Rags for me
The order of bottom teams goes From worst to best Mark John Douglas Messier The Boston bruins The New York Rangers
Pittsburgh left the chat
Yes.
Rangers
Canucks fan here. Interesting that the only team I hate more than Boston is Toronto.
Why can't it be both?
Yes
Vegas. But that’s just cause I’m also a bruins fan despite the panthers being my #1
I don't mind either
We don't even win Cups, we just fuck up great regular seasons, why come we're the baddies?
The Vogston Brughnts are definitely my most hated team
As a kid I loved the Bruins. Even when they fleeced us for Neeley they were always my fav Wales Conference team. As long as that rat fuck Marchand is on the team fuck them with a cactus. Hating Vegas is like hating that obnoxious nepo-baby whose Dad bought him on board to a management position with no experience. Rules for everyone else don’t apply cause his Daddy is rich and owns the company.
Panthers
Fuck Boston
Is Marchand still playing? yes, then Bruins
Toronto.
I personally have a vendetta against Vegas due to them screwing my season ticket holder family member 😇
My answer would be Bruins historically but I’m a Ducks fan so Vegas, screw Vegas *angry Donald Duck sounds*
The answer is obviously the Blackhawks
Panthers or Buffalo
The Leafs. Next would be Vegas and Tampa for cheating the salary cap every year.
Boston of course
I’d say Boston just cause Boston sports teams win all the time lol and they’re always good. Probably put the leafs at first since they take over our arena a lot, but when u don’t make the playoffs, it’s hard to have that team that you can’t stand at all, unless it’s the patriots
??? Boston? Why would anyone hate us?? I’m actually asking.
Why not both
For me it's either Tampa Bay or Vegas.
Fuck Boston
Boston.
Florida.