But why? They've been moderately successful over all if these years without a Stanley Cup since joining the NHL. Just don't see what there is to hate or even really be much of a rival really.
But why? They've been moderately successful over all if these years without a Stanley Cup since joining the NHL. Just don't see what there is to hate or even really be much of a rival really.
It goes beyond that though, you have to look at the marketing perspective. Before Ottawa came around, the Maritime provinces were strongly supporting Montreal and Toronto. The NHL, in their infinite wisdom, decided to crush that whole market and force the Senators down the throats of the hockey fans on the east coast, in Northern Ontario and Quebec further up the St. Lawrence river. Ottawa basically impeded on the Leafs and Canadien's fan bases as well as their viewers choice at what team they wanted to watch. I know a lot of people from the east coast who hate Ottawa exclusively for that reason.
Eh could be worse, try living down here where every troll and moron thinks you grew up on a farm and just started watching hockey. Yeah we've heard for a while, but damn does it get old when you get to listen to it every time you play a northern city.
And yet they rarely have a better reason than the super idiotic "the media talks about them a lot". Its becomes easier and easier every year to enjoy watching other Canadian teams end their season but still something extra satisfying when it's Montreal or Ottawa.
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Im not surprised, but we probably still have one of the most loyal fan bases in the world. Plenty of us supported them through the last decade of disappointment and were constantly called idiots for supporting them. Same thing that would happen to the Habs fan base.
All 3 of those players got hate. But Crosby is better than them all. Offensively all 3 of those players were great. But Crosby has an instinct that is borderline telepathic. Lemieux, Gretzky, and Jagr, were players that were so good they could put pucks in the net under any circumstance. Crosby is a playmaker. He is so attuned to his teamates and the cadence of the game, as well as his insane physical coordination that it puts him in a whole other category. People like that draw haters. So people will say things like "Whining". So they can pretend that it's that that makes them hate him. Because it's embarrassing to admit that you're insecure enough to just hate people who are good at things.
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Yes there were. You just didn't have social media back then where a hive mentality can build characteristics of people that may or may not exist. Every generation thinks that the new generation are soft and are whiners. There are going to be people 20 years from now where people look back to this time as when "Men were men" and the current generation are soft and whiny. And Crosby has fought more times than many finesse players from "back in the day". Anyone calling anyone in the NHL a "sissy" is projecting. It is not a sport for sissies. Give me a break.
"Do you think man will ever walk on the sun? -Ali G
Crosby is a great ice hockey player. But he is also a whiner and a rat. The latter sentence is the reason why people hate him. There's a reason why for example Gretzky won the Lady Byng trophy 4 times and Crosby has won it zero times. I don't think Crosby has ever even been nominated for that trophy. Go figure why.
I was about to say, people don't call Crosby a whiner because they are jealous, they call him that by watching him go cry to the Refs all the time. I don't even watch Eastern Conference hockey that often, and even I saw that pretty quick. The guy is good no doubt, but you can't just toss out his bad qualities because he is good.
Heck even on my own team I call out the bad stuff. Forsberg can score, but when he doesn't it's usually because he is trying to do everything on his own. If he's in a slump that's usually why.
Neal can score, but let's face it, he can be as dirty as anyone and frankly I'm a bit worried he's going to do a bunch of dumb stuff in this series.
Peks is great until he takes his 6' 7" frame and turns it into 4'7". It's the reason so many pucks go in over his shoulders, it's maddening.
Crosby's on ice play is great, but his bad is his mouth jawing like a 4 year old that just got slapped.
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Yeah but yall don't get the inbred, farmer, redneck, hick, and every other hillbilly stereotype that can come down the pipe. About all I've seen about California is " its too hot for hockey there ". Granted I wasn't around for the early years in LA so don't know.
Seems like nobody else in agreement with you but I absolutely agree with social media and hive mentality. Gretzky would be demonized if social media started back when he was beginning to play.
Dont really see Crosby crying to Refs as much as early in career but he can't get rid of the reputation mostly due to social media IMO.
really glad Erie lost in the finals there, friggin goofs with their douchy blonde hair dye
Well tonight gets it started, guess we find out if we really have a shot or us Preds fans are just delusional.
Fuck Pittsburgh, let's go Preds!
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