What makes you hate/dislike a team?

[Oneiro]

If there's one thing I detest, it's when someone with great resources and good luck keeps making the same mistakes.

I'm an NJ fan so naturally hate NYR (and in the past PHI), but if they were genuinely great organizations, I'd tip my hat as much as it would suck. But part of the reason it's easier to hate is because they get in their own way so much despite players forcing their way there, getting out of albatross contracts, being a destination, etc.

In general, I don't hate a lot of the mid market teams but I think their mushy middle thinking ultimately costs them more money. Saying our market can't survive a rebuild and therefore we are going to be happy making the playoffs and hoping for bounces to go our way because we can't do what's necessary to get over the top - I think that's a generally pathetic view. The moment Nashville sacked up and made some big trades, they were in the cup final and gave themselves runway with fans for another decade.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Toronto/Boston and Ottawa: Nothing in particular; it's simply in our DNA.

Winnipeg and Tampa Bay: the fanbases

NYR: Kreider the Bitch

 

[kevistar]

Don't know of it had been said already, but buying capfriendly

 

[King'sPawn]

Used to hate the Ducks as they're a rival, but I grew out of that.

I wouldn't say "hate", but one thing I dislike the most about the NHL, despite loving the draft, are when teams are managed terribly and they get rewarded. Like Chicago getting Bedard after the news of the SA cover-up. Or Edmonton getting McDavid after turds like Lowe smugly categorizing tiers of fans while boasting about how he knows a thing or two about winning.

It's not every team getting first overall. And I get that it's kind of required to lift these teams back up. It still doesn't sit well.

I get where fans can rub people the wrong way, but you'll get the same types on all teams, even your own. The difference is size and vocalness. Have had plenty of good discussions with various fans, including division rival. And sure, they have obnoxious fans. The Kings do too, though. Heck, some might consider me one.

 

[dumbdick]

Blues fans for whatever reason I find intolerable in this forum. No idea why, but they're all giant twats. Can I say twats, here?

EDIT: I can!

 

[Ace]

the answer is usually “their fans”

 

[dukeofjive]

Grew up hating the bruins from the 70s to today.

Hard to keep the hate on when habs only play them twice a year and habs have been shit for a while.

I don’t hate anybody else, some fan bases like my habs have annoying fans but that’s just part of entertainment.

 

[HabzSauce]

Carolina's cheese PR team. Whoever runs their twitter page needs to go. So cringe and it makes me see the entire organization that way

 

[DoubleGold]

Nothing. I'm an adult.

 

[dumbdick]

Nothing. I'm an adult.

McDavid making me shit my pants.

No you're not!

 

[JianYang]

Their players have a history of delivering career altering injuries to players I like (Looking at you ulf samuelson and matt cooke) + wear the same color scheme as your favorite team lol.

Consistent playoff matchups help too. We had some great series with Montreal in my life but the rivalry has really fallen apart the last decade or so. I feel like I'm supposed to hate the Habs but I really don't.

Alot of people were hating on the 2000s scheduling, but a byproduct of that was the Habs and bruins playing each other each other 15 times in 07/08.

These days, you might end up with as little as four matchups in a year.

The habs and bruins went on a run of playing each other in the playoffs in 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2014. It's almost a miracle that they did not play each other in the 2010 conference final after the bruins had a 3-0 series lead on Philly..... or else we were looking at 4 years in a row of playoff meetings.

Now the Habs and bruins have gone 10 years without a playoff matchip which I think has to be the longest drought in their respective histories.

Case in point, fewer regular season matchups and fewer playoff meetings go a long way to decreasing the temperature on any rivalry.

 

[UConn126]

Alot of people were hating on the 2000s scheduling, but a byproduct of that was the Habs and bruins playing each other each other 15 times in 07/08.

These days, you might end up with as little as four matchups in a year.

The habs and bruins went on a run of playing each other in the playoffs in 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2014. It's almost a miracle that they did not play each other in the 2010 conference final after the bruins had a 3-0 series lead on Philly..... or else we were looking at 4 years in a row of playoff meetings.

Now the Habs and bruins have gone 10 years without a playoff matchip which I think has to be the longest drought in their respective histories.

Case in point, fewer regular season matchups and fewer playoff meetings go a long way to decreasing the temperature on any rivalry.

I agree with your core point, and I would love to see more rivalry matchups in the regular season. Don't think east and west teams need to play each other twice a year. But the current system does promote more divisional rivalry playoff matchups. The lack of Bruins-Habs playoff series is more due to the Habs sucking in recent years than it is the system.