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Originally Posted by AR_Six
I was only trolling in the manner I phrased it. I am actually serious about this because I've noticed it happening in two cases now: Senators fans, and Flames fans.
When the team is good, the fans have something to derive hockey enjoyment from: a relevant team, wins, etc. They dislike their team's rivals but are more concerned with beating them than watching how they do on out of town games. I.e., a Senators fan right now is generally more interested in the lineup against the Hurricanes than whether the Leafs are losing. That wasn't so when the Leafs were decent - I had a bunch of friends who were Sens fans when I was in school and in the years their team was bad they seemed to care a lot more about the Leafs losing. Once the team got good, they stopped caring so much.
Similarly with Flames fans in recent years. There is an incredible amount of acerbic bitterness among hockey fans in this city nowadays. There's not much to be happy about or enjoy in hockey if you're a Flames fan, and so the majority of Flames fans' hockey fix seems to come from pure schadenfreude. It's been noticeably on the rise the longer this reign of mediocrity continues.
I actually don't agree at all that this is a "bandwagoner" issue. Bandwagoners would not let hockey losses impact their mood or demeanor. Bandwagoners simply stop caring about hockey altogether when the team isn't doing well, and suddenly become raving "GO FLAMES GO" chanting fans once they make the playoffs. The aforementioned phenomenon is actually stronger among die-hards.
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I would think that, as a Nucks fan, you would be personally familiar with the situation you reference.