Would you want to be judged by our worst posters if something like this happened to us? There were a lot of very reasonable and knowledgeable Oilers fans as well.
There were a lot of reasonable Oilers fans...on the main boards and here, occasionally. But even there and here was iffy. You had the one guy who came here looking to start trouble and deleted his incendiary post here and posted the exact same thing on the Oilers board (so he didn't delete his post out of altruism or respect or self-admission that he was wrong, but because he didn't want to get rightfully called out by other posters here).
And some of the shit I've seen on the Edmonton Oilers board denigrating St. Louis -
my city - and their moderators' lack of any sort of trying to curb it made me lose any and all respect I ever had towards that franchise's fans. It wasn't one person either; it was a whole hell of a lot of people saying, "Hope Holloway/Broberg has fun playing in Missouri" and a graphic about St. Louis' (factually-incorrect) crime rate shortly afterward, and their fans liking that post.
If I posted anything about Edmonton or Canada here, you guys
know my post would get deleted in a heartbeat, and I don't hate any city or country enough to do that. I may hate some of the people in a city or country, but I never go so far as to hate a city or country itself, for each city in each country has its own form of beauty.
I have absolutely nothing distasteful to say about Edmonton; I'd love to visit there if I could. So, forgive me for being upset that my city got targeted, and wanting the Oilers' fanbase (at least, those who are the worst of them) to choke on their own words when it comes to Broberg or Holloway.