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Who is your team and why? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by Venicon@sopuli.xyz to c/hockey@lemmy.world

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Thought I’d try and get some traction here.

Jets fan because I started watching them when they came back into the league and loved their vibe. Before that liked Pittsburgh and San Jose cos I was 6 when I saw them on tv at my hockey loving cousins house.

Soft spot for Seattle, Minnesota, Isles and Boston (minus Marchand).

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started watching hockey in '88 when I moved to Calgary and started going to Flames games with my Dad. Awesome to have your home team be champions when you first follow a sport. But then we moved Texas a year or two after MN moved the North Stars to Dallas, and that wasn't cool, so I kept rooting for the Flames. But it wasn't easy to keep up with hockey in Texas at that time, so I kinda fell out of following the sport. Then when I started looking back at it around 97/98, I really wanted to move to Colorado and the Avs were really hot, and they were also a Rocky Mountains team like the Flames, so they were my two teams. Then I moved to Minnesota just in time for the inaugural season of the Minnesota Wild. So I had my home team and my Rocky Mountain teams. I've been back in Texas for about 20 years now and decided maybe 2/3 years ago that it's ok to not be angry and the Stars for leaving MN anymore, so now I have Dallas, MN, Colorado, and Calgary as my teams.

[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the detailed answer! Franchises moving is really a North American thing, never really happened much over in the UK to any successful degree but the scale and populations etc involved are much bigger.

Also that’s an impressive length of time for a grudge hah! Are you closer to Houston or Dallas?

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm in Houston. Miss the Aeros, waiting for the Coyotes to to accept reality and move here.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Why didn't you love to Cleveland in 2016? We won the calder cup! Coulda been a Monsters fan!