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Agreed. I also think they haven't yet accepted that Edmonton, as a city, was rendered completely irrelevant with the emergence of Calgary as the centre of Alta. I would surmise a lot of their deep rooted anger stems from their inability to cope with Edmonton's relegation to complete insignificance.Indeed. Which is sort of funny since their franchise is only now barely relevant because they won the jackpot in 2015.
Toronto fans are different, I'd say they're a lot like us. We are "hockey bi-polar". Both fanbases are unforgiving towards their players after a loss. We trash everyone without mercy when there is a lack of effort. KK, Suzuki, Danault, Weber, Price, Chiarot, no one is immune. Leaf fans are the same, Matthews, Marner, JT, Nylander et all come under fire when they don't perform.
Do we complain about refs? Of course we do. I don't think there is a fanbase that doesn't. The difference is, we call out our players and even argue with each other about the roles they played in a game. I'm certainly guilty of it as are a lot of people on our board.
Oiler fans however coddle McBaby and Drunkcycle and make them out to be victims every single game. Those 2 can't do any wrong and if they lose, it's always because the refs let the other team get away with murder. Sure, there are 2 or 3 fans there that call it how it is but, a 50 page (exaggeration) GDT with 99% being about how the refs screwed them is the norm and not the exception for Redneck Nation.
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