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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I would say for most of the last 20 years the Flames had a more intense rivalry with the Canucks than with the Oilers, and the BoA only picked up again after the Oilers got McDavid and started climbing back towards being competitive while the Canucks started on a downtrend as well as having far fewer hateable personalities.
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2004-2015 the rivarly with the Canucks was bigger for sure. Bookended by the two playoff series against one another.
Then funny part is timing pretty much exactly coincides with Canucks kind of starting their re-tool, and Oilers getting gifted McDavid and becoming relevant again.