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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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In the mid-80s through the mid-90s I almost never saw Oilers fans in Calgary. Not at school. Not at work. It was one girl in my high school who wore an Oilers jersey, and one guy on the 4th floor at work who had a poster of Messier. If there were Oilers fans in Calgary in any numbers, they kept their heads down.
There seem to be more around now - my daughter says lots of her classmates and even some teachers are Oilers fans. Openly. I’d guess a lot more Edmontonians have moved here for work in the last 25 years. And the hatred isn’t like it was back then. Flames vs Oilers was bigger than hockey, bigger than sports - it was
intense.