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Originally Posted by shadowlord
Following the link that was provided here, I read through the HFBoard Oilers game thread for Saturday night's game, and it made me sick to my stomach about the classless comments in there.
Things like (paraphrasing):
"I'd be okay if Kassian got a suspension for bashing Tkachuk"
"Johnny deserves to be injured, by turning his head into the boards trying draw a penalty."
And when those comments were made, the Oilers were winning too.
At first I thought it was just an HF boards thing, but then I read through the Flames game day thread for the same same, and there was nothing like that.
It's one thing to have a rivalry between fans, but wishing injuries upon opposing players by multiple posters in several posts is a pretty strong self-condemnation of the Oilers fan base.
Thank goodness for the moderators here at CP and to Gaskal is who has to wade through all that trash to put together the ATL.
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A lot of it stems from their media team. When you have Staples and Stauffer openly calling for the heads of Flames players, they've crossed the line from journalist/reporter to being a fan. Other fans see that kind of rhetoric as justification to voice their own comments, and the whole thing just snowballs out of control. Even in the GDT thread in the general forum on HF, Oilers fans openly call for the injuries of Flames players.
And it's not just one or two media guys. It's systemic up in Edmonton. It's not just limited to one company
either.
The Flames have somebody like Francis who sometimes is a bad homer with bad takes, but even he doesn't stoop this low.