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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I'm serious, it truly is different here. Hockey is religion everywhere in Canada but I really don't see the level of zealotry in other fanbases. To some extent Montreal, but their rabid fandom has more of a smugness to it and less, for lack of a better word, stridency.
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Yes you do. Toronto was precisely the same last year.
And you fully understand the cause of it too. Just as fancystat guys are offended by the existence of exceptions (and they are far more common than you're willing to admit), the fans of those exception teams are offended by the argument that they are an exception. In the long run, both sides are going to be wrong (unless you have a gold medal winning goaltender on your roster).