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Originally Posted by redforever
I doubt that. The Battles of Alberta in the 80's cemented Calgary as a Flames base. No battles since have ever come close to the intensity and hate of those games.
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It didn't even take that. Calgary has always hated Edmonton with the heat of a thousand suns. We hated the Oilers when the Flames were still in Atlanta – doubly so when Edmonton got an NHL team and we didn't.
Moving the Flames to Calgary was brilliant marketing. It tapped into a rivalry that had already existed for decades.