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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Yeah it was weird seeing a fair bit of Oiler representation down in Lethbridge when I was there, since geographically it doesn't make much sense.
Lots of rural Gretzky/McDavid vanilla bandwagoners.
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A lot of it has to do with the Oilers being a really good team and winning SC's right after they joined the NHL. The Flames were a good team too, but if you were an Albertan not constrained by city boundaries on who to cheer for, it was pretty easy to migrate to that club when they owned the league for half a decade.
I was in college for part of that time in Lethbridge and it was like a 3:1 ratio for Oiler fans over Flames fans and the majority of students were from Southern AB.