The fight for who would have more fans was lost in the 80's, unfortunately. Best player ever + 5 cups put the oilers in basically yankee territory with the flames playing the Mets. Oilers are much more popular in the province and especially outside of it. Working for an Oil and Gas company there's a lot of people that grew up in small towns and they're basically all oiler fans, especially if it's Red Deer or north. I know one guy who's from GP and is a Flames fan, I was shocked. Calgary doesn't dominate large southern towns like Lethbridge and Med Hat the way you'd expect, and despite being the DMZ of the province every single person I've ever met from Red Deer is an Oilers fan. Plus you have the Roughrider effect of a lot of transplanted fans living in Calgary because as the superior city of the Prairies people move to here, not away from here. So the bad news is we're outnumbered and the Dome is probably gonna be at least 25% Oiler fans on wednesday. The good news is we have the better team and that's gonna make it so much better when we whoop their ass
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