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Re: 2012-13 NHL Thread. Fehr Thee Well??
I agree that I'm looking forward to a Hawks/Wild rivalry. In my heyday of actually getting to go to a lot of Hawks games (82-95), the North Stars became my most hated rival.
Grew up in the Chicago area (to Wisconsin native parents - Hawks were the only Chicago team we didn't hate) and we shared season tickets with some other families through the 80s.
From 89-93, I was living in LaCrosse (college) and made the trek to the Met Center at least 20 times to see those two play. Grew to HATE the North Stars (this is where the seeds of my all-encompassing hatred for all things Minnesota sports were planted & then later watered and fertilized by the Vikings and Gophers - before that, barely knew you guys existed) especially after they beat us when we had won the President's Trophy (92?) - I was in attendance.
I digress. I don't know if other Hawks fans back home felt the way I did about the North Stars. At least for a few years they must have.
Certainly the Red Wings have been enemy #1 for some time now down there lately although Vancouver has gotten quite close - but of course EVERYONE hates Vancouver.
As any rivalry, what it will take is both teams competing directly against each other for the same thing. If they go to the 4 conference alignment where to get to the Stanley Cup semis you must win your conference playoffs, it could develop rather quickly.
Our hatred of Vancouver developed after 3 or so consecutive years of meeting in the playoffs and both being amongst the best teams in the west. Oh yeah, and because most of their players and coach and ALL of their fans are complete d-bags.
With the talent that the Wild has assembled and what the Hawks already have, we could be seeing a lot of each other in those conference playoffs. Things could get heated within the next few years. Let's hope so!
I agree that I'm looking forward to a Hawks/Wild rivalry. In my heyday of actually getting to go to a lot of Hawks games (82-95), the North Stars became my most hated rival.
Grew up in the Chicago area (to Wisconsin native parents - Hawks were the only Chicago team we didn't hate) and we shared season tickets with some other families through the 80s.
From 89-93, I was living in LaCrosse (college) and made the trek to the Met Center at least 20 times to see those two play. Grew to HATE the North Stars (this is where the seeds of my all-encompassing hatred for all things Minnesota sports were planted & then later watered and fertilized by the Vikings and Gophers - before that, barely knew you guys existed) especially after they beat us when we had won the President's Trophy (92?) - I was in attendance.
I digress. I don't know if other Hawks fans back home felt the way I did about the North Stars. At least for a few years they must have.
Certainly the Red Wings have been enemy #1 for some time now down there lately although Vancouver has gotten quite close - but of course EVERYONE hates Vancouver.
As any rivalry, what it will take is both teams competing directly against each other for the same thing. If they go to the 4 conference alignment where to get to the Stanley Cup semis you must win your conference playoffs, it could develop rather quickly.
Our hatred of Vancouver developed after 3 or so consecutive years of meeting in the playoffs and both being amongst the best teams in the west. Oh yeah, and because most of their players and coach and ALL of their fans are complete d-bags.
With the talent that the Wild has assembled and what the Hawks already have, we could be seeing a lot of each other in those conference playoffs. Things could get heated within the next few years. Let's hope so!
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