Anecdotally I feel like there are way more oilers fans in AB and in Canada. Grew up in BC (3 hours from Calgary and 6+ hours from Edmonton) and their were Canucks fans, Oilers fans and then me and one other guy who cheered for the flames. I find the city of Calgary to be about 60-40 for the flames, but many of the flames fans are casual and most of the oilers fans are die hard idiots. Also I travel all across Alberta for work and its tough to find a flames fan North of Airdre lol.
I think this is due to the 80's dynasty and bunch of people in their 40's and 50's that jumped on that bandwagon and now have had kids that hey have indoctrinated. We have a lot of flames fans in their 30's due to the 04 run, but I think we are outnumbered by oilers fans in AB probably at a 2 to 1 ratio. I could be wrong.
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