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Stigma said:
If this was 10 years ago, I would have been very, very happy with the Oilers winning. I liked the Jets too! HF boards screwed up my perception of those teams. After seeing the unconditional hatred those people have with our team (and city), I started hating them too. Pity.
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Funny you say this, I used to live in Eastern Canada. Fans of many teams out there, but mainly Leafs and Habs. Anyway, back in the late 90's and early 2000's when the Leafs were playing the Sens every year in the playoffs, as much as I was cheering for the Leafs the Sens were my 2nd favourite team. Keep in mind, there was no local (Toronto or Ottawa) media bites online or anywhere really at that time (not for me anyway).

It was not until I moved to Ottawa and started talking to locals, listening to local sports radio etc that I learned of this incredulous hate for the Leafs and more so the city to Toronto. I found it beyond weird, but the depth of the despise turned me against the Senators pretty quickly. Like you, once I joined this site it became clear this was a Canada wide thing. The inferiourity complex people have with the city of Toronto is outright comical, petty and quite honestly weird.

I get that people who live in NHL cities have a certain pride that that team represents their city, but I can also tell you that those who do not live in an NHL city and support a team from that NHL city, almost never have any association to the city itself... just happens that the team they cheer for plays in that city.

Anyway, I guess the TL;DR is, I cannot cheer for any Canadian team. I wish I could, but I guess I too am petty.

PS - The last time I remember cheering for a Canadian team was the '06 Cup finals; that was a great run by the Oilers!
 
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I thought the Flames would walk over the Stars. I should have realized all the Canadian media drooling over the Flames meant they were overrated (a la the Jets).

Mind you, they can obviously still win this series.
 
Just like that, Flames are potentially in trouble. Oetingeer has been great but Stars are doing a decent job in front of him. Flames plan throughout the regular season isn't working right now. Does Sutter have no choice but to open it up more if they want to play continue playing a gritty style for some reason? Flames are the better team but they are too busy with other stuff in the game.
Also Guadreau is doing his usual disappearing act in the playoffs again. The effort is there but he needs to produce.
Tkachuk I don't get. Seems to want to be more involved with the extra stuff than actually helping the team.
 
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Just like that, Flames are potentially in trouble. Oetingeer has been great but Stars are doing a decent job in front of him. Flames plan throughout the regular season isn't working right now. Does Sutter have no choice but to open it up more if they want to play continue playing a gritty style for some reason? Flames are the better team but they are too busy with other stuff in the game.
Also Guadreau is doing his usual disappearing act in the playoffs again.
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If their top line isn't scoring, then the offense gets pretty thin. The middle six can carry the play sometimes, but there's zero creativity and a few black holes.
 
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I take back what I said about how bad the flames stars series is. Definitely watchable now

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I am rooting for the Stars to go far in playoffs.

Someone posted her Instagram on Twitter and she has a Canada Flag with Toronto
 
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Funny you say this, I used to live in Eastern Canada. Fans of many teams out there, but mainly Leafs and Habs. Anyway, back in the late 90's and early 2000's when the Leafs were playing the Sens every year in the playoffs, as much as I was cheering for the Leafs the Sens were my 2nd favourite team. Keep in mind, there was no local (Toronto or Ottawa) media bites online or anywhere really at that time (not for me anyway).

It was not until I moved to Ottawa and started talking to locals, listening to local sports radio etc that I learned of this incredulous hate for the Leafs and more so the city to Toronto. I found it beyond weird, but the depth of the despise turned me against the Senators pretty quickly. Like you, once I joined this site it became clear this was a Canada wide thing. The inferiourity complex people have with the city of Toronto is outright comical, petty and quite honestly weird.

I get that people who live in NHL cities have a certain pride that that team represents their city, but I can also tell you that those who do not live in an NHL city and support a team from that NHL city, almost never have any association to the city itself... just happens that the team they cheer for plays in that city.

Anyway, I guess the TL;DR is, I cannot cheer for any Canadian team. I wish I could, but I guess I too am petty.

PS - The last time I remember cheering for a Canadian team was the '06 Cup finals; that was a great run by the Oilers!
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I hear you. I'm originally from Ottawa so I heard all of that too.

When, I moved to Toronto, I was waiting to hear "man, I hate Ottawa....what a shit city!" from people. What I got was "man, I love that city!", "the canal is beautiful", "it's the perfect sized city!", etc. I was kind of shocked. That's when I realized that the hatred is not reciprocated and it's just some weird inferiority thing - that many Canadian cities have toward Toronto - that you mentioned.
 
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Stigma said:
I hear you. I'm originally from Ottawa so I heard all of that too.

When, I moved to Toronto, I was waiting to hear "man, I hate Ottawa....what a shit city!" from people. What I got was "man, I love that city!", "the canal is beautiful", "it's the perfect sized city!", etc. I was kind of shocked. That's when I realized that the hatred is not reciprocated and it's just some weird inferiority thing - that many Canadian cities have toward Toronto - that you mentioned.
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It’s the same thing out west. Some inferiority complex like a jealous little sibling.
 
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Stigma said:
I hear you. I'm originally from Ottawa so I heard all of that too.

When, I moved to Toronto, I was waiting to hear "man, I hate Ottawa....what a shit city!" from people. What I got was "man, I love that city!", "the canal is beautiful", "it's the perfect sized city!", etc. I was kind of shocked. That's when I realized that the hatred is not reciprocated and it's just some weird inferiority thing - that many Canadian cities have toward Toronto - that you mentioned.
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As Bert mentions it is here all the time.

Been decades since I lived on the east coast, but I didn't find it there.
Lived on the west coast in the 70's and it was rampant.
Then years later on Canuck broadcasts they'd take shots at the Leafs even when they were playing another team. Garrett was pathetic and seemed to have a huge inferiority complex about Toronto.

In Calgary it is bad, but they have some who recognize how good the Leafs are, but they have some of the biggest homers as well. Peter Loubardias is nauseating in his praise of everything Flame. Some analyst will bring up something that is suspect about the team and he'll turn it into a positive.

It is easy to make these people happy though, just have the Leafs lose. It is such a big part of their emotional well being, but I have to admit I really wanted the Canucks to lose to the Bruins, who I can't stand, but to have to listen to the Canucks broadcasters had they won would have been much much worse.
 
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Stigma said:
I hear you. I'm originally from Ottawa so I heard all of that too.

When, I moved to Toronto, I was waiting to hear "man, I hate Ottawa....what a shit city!" from people. What I got was "man, I love that city!", "the canal is beautiful", "it's the perfect sized city!", etc. I was kind of shocked. That's when I realized that the hatred is not reciprocated and it's just some weird inferiority thing - that many Canadian cities have toward Toronto - that you mentioned.
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The hate is real. Been living in Vancouver the past 8 yrs and I don’t want to use the word hate but people just despise anything or anyone from Toronto except for the Jays and Raptors, lol. For some reason they think everyone in/from Toronto think they are the Superior Canadians….
When it comes to Hockey, I think all other Canadians fan base think they are rivals to the Leafs but in reality the only Leafs rivals in Canada are Sens and Habs. One is based on location and the other is Original Six.

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As Bert mentions it is here all the time.

Been decades since I lived on the east coast, but I didn't find it there.
Lived on the west coast in the 70's and it was rampant.
Then years later on Canuck broadcasts they'd take shots at the Leafs even when they were playing another team. Garrett was pathetic and seemed to have a huge inferiority complex about Toronto.

In Calgary it is bad, but they have some who recognize how good the Leafs are, but they have some of the biggest homers as well. Peter Loubardias is nauseating in his praise of everything Flame. Some analyst will bring up something that is suspect about the team and he'll turn it into a positive.

It is easy to make these people happy though, just have the Leafs lose. It is such a big part of their emotional well being, but I have to admit I really wanted the Canucks to lose to the Bruins, who I can't stand, but to have to listen to the Canucks broadcasters had they won would have been much much worse.
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At least in Vancouver, they just can’t stand Leafs winning even though it is a regular season game and the opponent is a team in the East. It is really weird.
 
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