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I tried rooting for the Islanders because I really hate the Bruins and their fans and kind of hated the Rangers and their fans.
Then I started watching an Islanders game and after one period I gave up.
Since then I have rooted for the NHL to invite all their teams to an event at the same time, hoping that every NHL plane would collide in mid air. I've also rooted for Karmanos and Bettman to be castrated somewhere in public by an angry Whalers fan. 0-for 2. So far.

As for the Wolfpack, please. I'm not going to see a baby Rangers team with a bunch of Rangers fans in the Whalers building.

UConn hockey has finally filled the void. Hard to complain about Hockey East hockey, it's great. $210 or whatever for a season ticket, our row is right near the Sam Adams beer vendor, so is the pisser.

Thank god for the move to HE. The one thing I congratulate Malloy on.
 
I was a diehard Whaler fan till the day they left...now I hope there is a special place in hockey hell for Karmanos and Bettman! I started to follow the Wolfpack and by default the NY Rangers because I couldn't root for the Bruins being a Yankee, Giant and Knick fan. When I was hired by the FDNY in 99 it made my allegiance very easy. I also have season tickets to UConn Hockey which is my favorite team 1B. I also follow the Sabers, Red Wings and Maple Leafs. A straight up hockey junkie I buy the NHL Center Ice tv package every year too.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Back on this, the one team I hated was the mid-1970's Flyers (Broad Street Bullies). What they played wasn't hockey, it was a rugby scrum on ice. The set the game back decades and the NHL stood by and let them do it.
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As I mentioned, I was a Bruins fan at the time and I felt the same way. The fact is the Bruins called themselves big and bad but when they played the Flyers, they turtled. I remember Orr and Espo bringing Kate Smith flowers. Wussies.
 
When the Whale left I actually tried to give the Canadiens a try. I just found myself without passion for hockey anymore.

So, UCONN.

#icebus
 
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Irish Loop said:
I stopped watching hockey entirely after the Whalers left town and only recently started watching again, after adopting a new team. But finding a new team was tricky. Here are the traditional "post-Whaler" candidates:

  • Bruins: Oh hell no. Old rivals from the Adams Division. Forget that.
  • Rangers: I never liked them and would feel weird picking an NYC team I wasn't born with.
  • Hurricanes: This is like rooting for the guy who stole your wife. Next.
  • Islanders: Rooting for a Long Island team is even worse than rooting for an NYC team. It's like another planet.
  • Sabres: I can't watch them locally, but their uniform DOES have two swords on it. And they're pretty terrible, just like the Whalers.
So I ended up settling on the Sabres. Bonus that I was born in NY, but not NYC, so it... sorta makes sense? Plus I always liked their uniforms as a kid. Like I said, TWO SWORDS.

Did you pick a hockey team after the Whalers left? If so, who, and why?
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I didn't read this whole thread, but I am born and raised and still live in Buffalo, so hockey being my least favorite sport i still am a huge sabres fan.

I like the choice, and they're doing a lot of exciting things with a young, talented roster, but unfortunately during their run they got 2 potential great players but missed on 2-3 potential superstars, so that stings but their future is bright.

And Buffalo is a great, in many ways, sports fan base, so you could do worse.
 
Mr. French said:
I didn't read this whole thread, but I am born and raised and still live in Buffalo, so hockey being my least favorite sport i still am a huge sabres fan.

I like the choice, and they're doing a lot of exciting things with a young, talented roster, but unfortunately during their run they got 2 potential great players but missed on 2-3 potential superstars, so that stings but their future is bright.

And Buffalo is a great, in many ways, sports fan base, so you could do worse.
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Clint Malarchuk, baby!!

 
Moody Magic said:
Dallas Stars. Off to rough start this year but Benn and Seguin are ready for late 90s Stars like run.
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Moody if Dallas had pulled the trigger on a Cam Talbot trade with the Rangers last year at the draft they would be in my mind the favorite for the Cup coming out of the west this year.
 
FDare 9 said:
Moody if Dallas had pulled the trigger on a Cam Talbot trade with the Rangers last year at the draft they would be in my mind the favorite for the Cup coming out of the west this year.
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Fans here are still pissed Nill didn't make a move in the off season. Lehtonen & Niemi are way too inconsistent.
 
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Moody Magic said:
Fans here are still pissed Nill didn't make a move in the off season. Lehtonen & Niemi are way too inconsistent.
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A good solid trade scenario would be a 3-way trade between the Stars, Pens and Rangers....Stars get Lundqvist and Staal, Rangers get Fluery and Klingberg, Pens get Sharp and Lehtonen
 
[Qwould "FDNY99, post: 1872255, member: 683"]A good solid trade scenario would be a 3-way trade between the Stars, Pens and Rangers....Stars get Lundqvist and Staal, Rangers get Fluery and Klingberg, Pens get Sharp and Lehtonen[/QUOTE]
I would love that. Flurry is the name mentioned most around here as the top target for the Stars.
 
[Qwould "FDNY99, post: 1872255, member: 683"]A good solid trade scenario would be a 3-way trade between the Stars, Pens and Rangers....Stars get Lundqvist and Staal, Rangers get Fluery and Klingberg, Pens get Sharp and Lehtonen[/QUOTE]
I would love that. Fluery is the name mentioned most around here as the top target for the Stars.
 
This thread certainly hasn't got me running back to the NHL. That's for sure.
 
I was born in Boston and was a Bruins fan for the first 25 years of my life. After moving to Central Mass I gradually started going to Whalers games and found them more fun. That was reinforced when we moved to Connecticut nearly 25 years ago and I went to about a 10-15 games per year. After the Whalers left I gradually took some interest in the Bruins again, but not with any real fervor (catch the occasional TV game when they are on here in Fairfield County and attended 2 games in 19 years). The NHL hasn't been the same for me since Brass Bonanza was silenced.
 
My last year at the Daily Campus was 97 - turns out the Whale's last year.
I covered women's hoops and asked my editor - might have been Ostrout unless he had just left the year before can't remember - if I could cover the Whale on nights the women weren't playing instead of having us just take the AP feed like we usually would.
It was basically a fan's dream come true. Got to go to most home games in the press box surrounded by other reporters, scouts, scratched players. Got to the locker room after the game and ask a few questions to players who you always watched on TV. When the game was over I drove back to the paper and had to bang out a story as quickly as I could. I'm sure only a few kids read it but who cares. The whole experience was awesome.
Rick Ley sat in front of me most times - I think he was a scout for Toronto at the time, he might still live in the area.
Heard a few good stories up there. My memory is a little foggy but I think it was Steve Smith, the big defensemen from Chicago who was scratched and I overheard him telling someone that Stu Grimson would get so worked up before the Detroit games that he'd yak. Reason being he knew everyone going to the game was just waiting for the big Grimson/Probert fight that was just a matter of time.
Also think I remember a story where Grimson basically dared Coffey to a fight during a practice when Coffey was halfassing it with the Whale when he didn't want to be here. Coffey skated away smartly. Stu was a good teammate.
Also remember a few drunk Marchment stories, but that's not surprising. I. loved when Marchment was traded here only to be lost when Rutherford stupidly signed Steven Rice. Marchment was a ridiculous open ice hitter (sometimes borderline illegal but hey, you have to keep your head up when you're a forward).

That was basically my way of going out on top. Haven't watched the NHL since really. From what I understand the NHL isn't the same. Not much fighting. Blah. Of course a few years later the Hurricanes win it all with jackass Karmanos grinning from ear to ear. Just awful. As if Whalers fans needed a greater kick in the nuts already.

so anyway, F-off NHL and I'm all about UConn now. Couple years ago I watched UConn up at Freitas the year before we went to HE and was surprised at how good hockey was at the college level - I literally had stopped watching hockey cold outside of the one lame attempt to watch the Islanders.
 
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Switched allegiance to the Bruins by default because I'm a Boston sports fan (Revs, Pats, Sox, Celtics) despite growing up in Fairfield County where all my friends supported NY teams.

I only saw the Whalers once at the Civic Center but my first hockey game was an amazing experience.

April 2nd, 1994. Whalers trailed 5-0. I was 7 years old, shell-shocked and miserable. I remember my Dad actually apologizing to me because this was a birthday gift. But then the Whalers made an incredible comeback to tie it up 5-5. Pure ecstasy and wonder. Of course they broke my heart by conceding a late winner. 6-5 Flyers.
Philadelphia Flyers at Hartford Whalers Box Score — April 2, 1994 | Hockey-Reference.com

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I didn't have a team... moved to Philly area but never really got into the local teams, Philly fans misery has become a excellent source of entertainment though... I married a girl from Winnipeg, my kids have grown up playing hockey, and Winnipeg built a nice little NHL arena, and got a team back... now I'm a Jets fan.

I think Hartford could get still get the Devils or the Islanders if they had an NHL quality arena.
 
Dove said:
Clint Malarchuk, baby!!

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Been watching sports for nearly 4 decades and have seen some gruesome injuries (Joe Theismann's leg, The UL player whose leg snapped in half on his own weight in the 2013 FF, many others), but absolutely nothing topped this. It's amazing he didn't bleed to death right on the ice.
 
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I was a diehard Whaler fan since the early 80s - once they left I gave up watching hockey on a regular basis. Still miss the sport but was too angry at the NHL for everything that went down. Occasionally follow during the playoffs and the Cup finals. Usually find myself rooting for the smaller market teams, and many of the Canadian teams over the southern transplant teams. Can't stand Gary Bettman to this day.

Glad we have UConn in Hockey East now - will focus my hockey interest on that now.
 
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