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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I agree. Oilers fans respect Flames fans and the rivalry and there's good ribbing going back and forth but at the end of the night, there's a handshake or even a hug and we call it a night. I remember one New Year's Eve I shooked so many Oilers fans hands at the Dome and wished them a happy new year. This was 09? Can't remember. Oilers lost 6-4 and even they weren't that douchy about it.
Canucks fans are nobodies and respect nobody. Just bad people.
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Even though it goes back a couple decades now for both teams, there was always a mutual respect between the Flames and Oilers. You had two teams in the mid-late 80's that were typically the best two teams in the NHL, and unfortunately, they were just always that little bit and usually a lot bit better up north. They iced a generational team, that will likely go down as the greatest NHL team that was ever assembled. A roster of All Stars. Oilers fans were so lucky to have that, and any self respecting Flames fan will admit it, the were that damn good. It only made finally getting that cup, so much sweeter after all those epic battles. Yeah they have 5 cups, and we only have one, but just that one still gets us in the club of having a championship team. And there is that respect.
The Canucks on the other hand, were pretty much never a factor, and pretty much nobody gave a crap about them back then. They were just this crappy team, with awful uniforms from the coast. Basically a speed bump in the playoffs. I think the fact that in 04 with Calgary, and 06 with Edmonton, and 07 with Ottawa going to the finals, and the entire Country rallying behind those teams, says a lot. (Heck, I was even secretly hoping the Oilers would take out the Hurricanes.)
When The Canucks made it there, it was crickets. Pretty much the entire nation was routing against them. What was the biggest reason that came up? Diving? Nope. Biting? Nope. Kneeing opponents in the groin and pulling hair only like a prostitute would do in a back alley fight next to a dumpster on Hastings St? Not even that. It was the fans, and their attitude like they are somehow the greatest team that ever laced up skates that people would always cite as the reason they couldn't rally with them. Even my 65 year old mother will cheer anything Canadian would ask "What is wrong with those people? Are they insane? What is with the green penis showing guys? Is that supposed to be funny?"
The fan base has zero humility, and cannot for one second accept any sort of criticism or fault in their team. Well that, and the whole violence and burning things when they lose. They have no ability to take their own inventory. They have zero ability for self deprecation. It is all homerism, all the time, no matter what.
Until they shed that mentality, they will be universally hated.