I'll give you one thing though, Ottawa fans are sure preoccupied with the Leafs, much more so than their own team. There are a lot of Leaf fans in Ottawa and it really rubs Sens fans the wrong way. Here's an example from the Ottawa Sun letters section printed today:
‘Stupid’ Leafs fans
The Leafs fans are to blame 100% for the reason the Leafs have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967.
Since the Ballard years and on, regardless of the talent management put on the ice, Leafs fans sold out the rink every night and paid outrageous ticket prices.
As a result management knew they could get sub par talent yet rake in the money because fans would pay the ticket prices.
To this day, that is still 100% true.
There is thing called loyalty but there is also stupidity on the fans part. Sens fans are smarter.
They expect their team to constantly improve yet they are loyal but not stupid.
— Brian U’Ren, Lyndhurst
And here's a Leaf fan pushing back, printed in the same issue:
Forensic audit
I read with great amusement Lorrie Ebersole’s letter condemning Ottawa residents who cheer for the Leafs.
Ebersole resides in Calgary and cheers for the Sens, yet chastises Ottawa residents, many of whom (like myself) are not originally from Ottawa. Does anyone else see the irony in this?
I have been a Leafs fan well before Erik Karlsson was a gleam in his father’s eye.
I see no reason to change, despite Toronto’s performance in this year’s playoffs. Then again, I don’t recall the Sens getting it done when it mattered either.
Might I suggest Ebersole get in touch with Eugene Melnyk. Perhaps he can instruct his forensic team to investigate the matter.
— Marc Roy, Ottawa
