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Originally Posted by Dienasty
I agree with you, in grade 9 (2001) I was the only Flames fan on my AA Bantam hockey team half were Oilers fans, some Canucks, Avalanche, Detroit, Canadiens and Leafs fans.
Oilers had Weight, Guerin, Arnott, Cujo, ripped off the Islanders in every trade, had wild first round battles with Dallas every year. People must really forget the "young guns," basically no playoffs in the 90's, not getting out of the first round from 89 to 2004. Moving MacInnis, Suter, Mullen, Roberts, and finally Nieuwendyk was the ultimate decline in fan support. After Nieuwendyk was traded my grandpa went back to cheering for the Rangers his team as a kid.
Even in 2004, there were more Canucks fans going into that 1st round series at my high school.
Iggy and the cup run really turned around the teams popularity.
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Originally Posted by Jordan!
I’m just a couple years older than you. This post nailed my point 100%
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Just because there weren’t many hardcore flames fans, doesn’t mean there were tons of oilers fans.
I recall lots of people cheering for the Oilers in those 90s playoff series as an underdog, but none of them were oilers fans. But that was in the late 90s. It was in the era of Canadian teams almost leaving, Flames dark days and no salary cap. It was common, and still is amongst casual fans, to cheer for any Canadian team to win the cup.
I didn’t meet hardly any oilers fans in high school during the early 2000s. By then, even though the flames still kind of sucked, Iggy had brought the flames back to respectability.