I'm willing to give the book a chance, if only because I myself was not around for the best days of the Battle of Alberta rivalry and would like to know more about it. Growing up in the young guns era, and seeing the Oilers rebuild and be terrible for 10 years, it has always seemed funny to me that Flames fans should hate the Oilers so much since the Oil have simply been terrible for so long. IMO the rivalry has not really been much of one in the past couple of years. Will be interested in the future, especially with the media ramping up the Bennett-McDavid connection.
Spector is obviously biased in his perspective. That said, I like that there is going to be a book out there about such a crucial time in hockey history. It could bring the younger generation up to speed on the history of the rivalry. And even if the book is biased that is a good thing.
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