Lived in Alberta for 45+ years. Family connections to a few WHA era players. But definitely a bigger Detroit Red Wings fan (and still am), growing up it was Delvecchio, Ullman (he being from Edmonton), Reed Larson, and a bunch of sad sack editions of that team, but something about the “local” team kept pulling me in. Probably have seen 60-70 live games in Edmonton so hard not to pull for them. Saw them from the WHA years to when they joined the show and then the glory years. Decade of darkness was absolutely hard to get excited for, would like to erase those years, full stop. Don’t spend much time on HF DRW because the fans on HFOil are so much more fun to banter with and knowledgeable about the game of hockey. Great thread idea OP.