Which NHL team do you support?

[WLU_Mike]

My team: Montreal.

[afgrijselijkheid]

BLUES

hate list: chicago, detroit, and to a lesser extent vancouver and toronto

[soccernutter]

LA Kings - from waaaaaay back in the Marcel Dionne (sp?) era. I remember the Miracle on Manchester versus the 1982 Oilers. I was also watching when Bob Miller made the comment "This is the first time the Kings are playing in May!"

[adam]

The Wild is the only team I really follow, but I like to see all the northern teams (including the Canadian teams) do well. I also like to see Dallas lose as much as humanly possible...even if it's to another southern team.

[Canadian_Supporter]

Ottawa

[Goodsport]

San Jose Sharks

[otterulz]

New York Rangers. Although I didn't become a fan till after they won the Cup. Becoming a Ranger fan is easily one of the most stressful decisions I ever made.

[Khansingh]

The Original American NHL team, the Boston Bruins. Although, their owner doesn't make it easy. I wish there were a way to fire him. The teams I hate: Montreal for obvious reasons, Toronto because they are ********ing scum, and the Rangers because they play in the same building with the idiot Knicks. I like any city that's a hockey town, e.g. Philadelphia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, Detroit, St. Louis, Oklahoma City. Except for the Canadian cities because I'm a CFL fan and, in Canada, the NHL and the CFL are fighting for that sports looney.

[realmadrid1086]

Philadelphia Flyers

[Sykotyk]

The financially struggling soon-to-be-former Pittsburgh Penguins.

Hopefully a lockout and a surpressingly small salary cap is implemented that the Pens may be able to survive a few more years while they attempt to get an arena.

Otherwise, hello Winnipeg Jets II.

Sykotyk

[WarrenWallace]

I liked Quebec before they moved to Colorado. So I like Colorado. Also like Minnesota Wild. Hate Detroit, Dallas. But I usually don't watch pro hockey until the playoffs.

[Glenwood Lane United]

When I was a kid, we had a team in Chicago.....don't know what happened.

[hobbes]

The Los Angeles Kings. From back in the day. No idea why. I was three, what the hell did I know? Still they torture and torment and yet I love em anyway. I got an autographed, gold Marcel Dionne jersey last year at a charity auction. I'm glad I'm not alone. Since Gretzky left the bandwagon is kind of empty Ñ thank god!

I hate Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and the NY Rangers.

I used to cheer for Winnipeg and Quebec for Canadian teams (though we were in the same division the Jets were so bad during most of my childhood I could root for them against the Albertan axis-of-evil every year), now I guess Ottawa a little if the Kings are out.

cheers,
hobbes

[Quakes11]

The Sharks, I have a 10 game plan and try to watch em on tv when possible.

[Dante]

NY Rangers...

I also follow the AHL closely and am a Binghamton Senators fan.

[DevilDave]

Jersey born and bred. BTW my username on a soccer board has strangely always referred to my favorite hockey team (your defending Stanley Cup Champions), and not any soccer team (Man Utd., AC Milan et al.)

The reason is "DevilDave" was my username on a now defunct message board site i used to post on a few years ago...

I've also adopted my "local team" the S.J. Sharks, but I miss the days when Eastern teams would make an annual trip to each of the teams in the West. No Devs in Sanazay this year.

[Papa Bouba Diop]

Les habitants! (the habs). I also miss hating the Nordiques terribly :( sniff.

[rtiemens]

I used to follow the Capitals. Now the only sport I follow is soccer, but every few months I check in on the pathetic Capitals. They are still on life support, ever since their owner, Ted Leonsis, threw in the towel and gave up on the organization and the local hockey market after losing to Tampa Bay in the playoffs last year. "The market has spoken", he pronounced after a "mere" 14,000 turned out for the final playoff game of 2003 (played on Good Friday, or Easter, or something like that), another choke of epic proportions (even for the Capitals).

So now, Leonsis is looking for the nearest exit. He wants out, and bad. Maybe the lockout will give him his out. I could be wrong on some of that, but I have little doubt that the Capitals will be horrible for the forseeable future. The bad old days are here again. Too bad. They have some good players, and I like the new coach. But as a team and organization they are phoning it in at least until the lockout . . .

[Malaga CF fan]

Avalanche.

Really, I'm a spoiled hockey fan at that, as we have had a great team since they started, although I feel sorry for the tortured Nordiques fans who lost their team just when they were getting really good.

I stayed up until 4 in the morning living in Chile to see the Avs win their first Stanley Cup, sweeping the Panthers.

Don't like Detroit or Dallas. Don't mind Vancouver, even though they really seem to have a decent rivalry building with the Avs.

[Canadian_Supporter]

Originally posted by Glenwood Lane United
When I was a kid, we had a team in Chicago.....don't know what happened.

I think your owner got in the way...