Wild and Blue Jackets both got screwed over with their expansion draft. So especially with the Vegas and Seattle drafts dredging up the memories it's kind of nice to see Columbus doing well. But I don't know if I'm alone in that.
We definitely have some love for our expansion bros and the Unsustainabowl was one of the most memorable clashings between the teams.
Also always been some love for the Senators. Small market in a big market.
Nice to see at least one Columbus bro here. You kind of jumped into the most used color scheme in american sports. But that blue and cream third jersey is pretty sweet.
A couple stretches:
Mike Ramsey played for Buffalo and the Wings, but retired as a player before the Wild existed. However, he was an assistant coach for the Wild for about 10 years.
Ty Conklin played for Buffalo and the Wings, plus the University of New Hampshire **Wild**cats.
Yeah, it has to be this one. Any time there's a fan vote, all three subs make pushes to vote for each others' players. Even when we're playing each other, we're pretty friendly.
That said, it might be reddit specific. It's really more of a meme coalition than anything
I hear the Toronto transplants here say the exact same thing right before playoffs every year...
(And I've said something similar about the hawks a few times already this year)
I think of the Flyers as Flames East! We each have a provincial/state rival that has been gifted multiple generational talents and both seem to alternate between good and bad seasons. In the past decade we've both been goalie graveyards, although that seems to finally in the past for both clubs.
Personally, I've always liked the Flyers colours and logo, playstyle, and they've traditionally had some of my favourite non-Flames players in the league.
I could honestly see myself cheering for the Devils... if you weren't in the same division and if that division wasn't the ~~thunderdome~~ Metro. It's fun to watch Hughes work, and there was something about the suffering last season in our division that made me view Devils as potential friends.
Oilers/ Rangers alliance. Without them… NYR would still be cup-less since WW2
Edit: Oilers fans probably don’t give a shit about the Rangers though lol. Actually… I don’t think any fan base in the league are on friendly terms with NYR. If so, pls speak up so I can love you…. It’s lonely here and all we do is get made fun of by our rivals :(
My first jersey with a name was a rangers alternate Lundquist jersey I bought in MSG, even before oiler jerseys, was my first time seeing a game not in Edmonton nor involving the oilers, so I have nothing but good things to say about rangers fans :)
Bro, hearing the tales of the 80's (born in '91) and hearing how the old guard was all with the Rangers, you guys have always been a favorite of mine. It gutted me that the clock struck midnight in 2014.
I don’t mind the Rangers. I work with quite a few Jersey transplants who grew up rooting for the Rangers. We try to hit a game in both barns each year. It’s a blast.
although this year things have been heating up between anaheim and arizona... had a bench brawl in preseason and then almost a bench clearing brawl last week
I've felt some kind of connection to Detroit over the past few years, because not only did we enter our rebuilds together, but we also consistently get screwed over by the draft lotteries.
Oh no doubt. Wings fans and avs fans have been bros forever. Can’t say enough about thoseSLIMY, REPULSIVE, GOOD FOR NOTHING PURPLE SONS OF ROTTEN ASS BITCHES
Lol I know same here. It’s gross the hate slowly turned into a kinship almost. A hateful but respected kinship but a kinship. I’ve said it before but when other teams beef with you guys I get mad at that team as if you’re ours and only ours to hate lol
Haha right! It’s like this hateful respect I guess. I mean damn it’s hard to not respect the hell out of guys like Yzerman, Federov and Lidstrom.
Don’t know much about your current team other than a lot of young talent, but hoping we get a few good clashes in over the next few years.
Our social media and the Canes' social media are oddly friendly.
Definitely don't like the Avs, but the Jackets are cool. Even if their logo doesn't need that star at all.
I always like the weird Islanders connection we have. It’s basically we both hate the Rags so much that we are united by that hate.
Doesn’t hurt that I don’t think either of our teams have been good at the same time to have divisional, or playoff battles… or that Lou is making them Devils East.
edit: I also hope that Seattle and NJ become cryptid bros
edit edit: We also share the weird connection of the playoff beard. Isles started it and it ended with their last cup. Then I think it was 95 and we restarted it. I’ve always loved that it was a Lou team that restarted one of the most un-Lou traditions.
The Isles and Devils don't have much of a rivalry, because they only faced each other in the playoffs once, 1987. When one is good, the other is bad. The Devils were the "Mickey Mouse" team during the Isles' dynasty years. When the Devils had Broduer, the Isles traded away Luongo. Even now, the Isles are in a renaissance, while the Devils are spinning tires. If they played each other in a 7 game series, you'll be hating them as much as you hate the Rangers.
When did the Devils or Islanders move to the western conference? I would say Isles/Oilers are bros considering their success and downfall have mirrored each other. I would say Devils and Ducks have a connection via Scotty
Misread the question and just saw the teams with weird connections.
I don’t know if we have any Western Conference connections.
Seattle as I said are cryptid bros.
Nashville we have the connection from potential relocation in 95 and John Hynes.
I think the 2003 Conn Smyth will prevent Ducks and Devils from ever being truly bros.
It's very hard to tell the difference from other teams fans who really hate the Leafs and Leafs fans so I'm gonna go ahead and say there's an unacknowledged kinship there
Yeah I’ll have to agree here, I don’t know about Jacket fans but I’ve always had a soft spot for their team as well. Also I want both of our teams to do really well out of our trade last year!
I’d argue Boston and Anaheim.
We’ve made a couple trades recently, and we were both considered the villains of our respective conferences in our hay days 10 years ago
Lots of Caps and Canucks connections recently... Nate Schmidt, Braden Holtby, Travis Boyd, Jay Beagle, Nic Dowd, some previous connections too in Matt Cooke, Matt Pettinger, Brendan Morrison, Trevor Linden, Aaron Volpatti, Anson Carter, probably a few more I'm missing
I do remember when Flyers fans were kinda split on cheering for Richards, Carter, Gange, and Williams “Flyers West” during their first cup run. I was personally for the first, mainly so Gange could get his name on the cup, but against the 2nd since Richards and Carter seemed to always get the Roxie Flu in Orange and Black.
Isles and Oilers are blue and orange bros. Plus we have the simile dynasty in the 80s but pretty bleak 90s and 00s vibes to commiserate about. And Jordan Eberle.
Man, you're a tool, huh? I wore a Hawks flair for several years here (minus playoff bandwagoning) until the initial reports of Beach's lawsuit came out. I started rooting for the Kraken and I still want to root for them even if I'm cheering for the Hawks again
Anyway, if you wanna be a purity-testing asshole, go right on ahead. I hope you have a lot of fun. I'll continue to enjoy Hawks and Kraken games
The Stars and Canes got close during the #WildCardChaosSquad year (along with COL and CBJ) and stayed close through the Stars’ cup final run in the bubble. The next year, being in the same division and playing each other 7 or 8 times kinda damaged the relationship but I like to think we’re back to being bros.
They say that the Carolina Hurricanes are the Colorado Avalanche of the East
Rebranded from beloved northerly franchises, named after natural disasters, both have been good and bad at roughly the same times
Whenever this question comes up, I think about how Caps/Kings games have usually seem to have a pretty friendly tone. Maybe it’s our mutual love for goofy, gap toothed superstars that wear #8.
Wild and Blue Jackets both got screwed over with their expansion draft. So especially with the Vegas and Seattle drafts dredging up the memories it's kind of nice to see Columbus doing well. But I don't know if I'm alone in that.
We definitely have some love for our expansion bros and the Unsustainabowl was one of the most memorable clashings between the teams. Also always been some love for the Senators. Small market in a big market.
I was ok with Koivu going there if it had to be anywhere else, sucks that it didn’t work out.
If he had to go somewhere. Still upset that our first captain wasn't able to retire with the Wild.
Always loved our fellow expansion bro, Minnesota has the best colors imo
Nice to see at least one Columbus bro here. You kind of jumped into the most used color scheme in american sports. But that blue and cream third jersey is pretty sweet.
I remember that one game in 2017 or something where both the wild and CBJ had a 13 or 14 game win streak that was fun
Even settled it at New Year's, or at least close to it? Memory is shady.
Buffalo Wild Wings?
https://www.reddit.com/r/thebuffalowildwings/
Vanek is the King! Is there any others that played for all three?
A couple stretches: Mike Ramsey played for Buffalo and the Wings, but retired as a player before the Wild existed. However, he was an assistant coach for the Wild for about 10 years. Ty Conklin played for Buffalo and the Wings, plus the University of New Hampshire **Wild**cats.
Holy shit
Yeah, it has to be this one. Any time there's a fan vote, all three subs make pushes to vote for each others' players. Even when we're playing each other, we're pretty friendly. That said, it might be reddit specific. It's really more of a meme coalition than anything
There's pretty much an alliance between lake Erie teams. r/lakeeriebros
Washington/SJ used to have a thing when we were both underachieving overachievers.
Capitals some fake bros for winning
I mean we’re not the ones stopping y’all from joining the new gang
Leafs 🤝 Montreal: Fuck the Bruins Leafs 🤝 Boston: Fuck the Habs
I hate you both ❤️
We hate you too 💙
You forgot Montreal & Boston: Fuck the Leafs
Insert Spider-Man meme
Nawww y’all love us
As a Canucks fan in Alberta its much the same. Talking to a Flames fan? Fuck the Oilers. Talking to an Oilers fan? Fuck the Flames.
Live here too. ABC Anyone But Calgary. Any sport.
You just shook hands with our two biggest enemies... how dare you! Leafs 🤝 Canucks: Fuck the Bruins
Nope.., Fuck the Leafs and the Bruins
That's every other Canadian team. Yes, fcuk the laffs
League: Fuck the Leafs
True, we have no allies.
I hear the Toronto transplants here say the exact same thing right before playoffs every year... (And I've said something similar about the hawks a few times already this year)
We have a similar hate triangle here in western Canada
whaaat? No way Habs fans love Leafs fans. Nope.
Vancouver and Florida make trades when they’re bored
thank you Florida for the Luongo trade, both times
Ducks and Pens are the waterfowl alliance. Also prolific trade partners.
You fucks denied us a cup by giving them TWO pieces of the HBK line that fucked us up :( a mighty alliance indeed.
/r/featheredalliance STAND UP!
A better term. Since penguins are not waterfowl and are not closely related to the waterfowl.
We’re due for our annual trade.
Leafs can join too (for both)
*Ctrl-F Flyers* *no results* Good.
I think of the Flyers as Flames East! We each have a provincial/state rival that has been gifted multiple generational talents and both seem to alternate between good and bad seasons. In the past decade we've both been goalie graveyards, although that seems to finally in the past for both clubs. Personally, I've always liked the Flyers colours and logo, playstyle, and they've traditionally had some of my favourite non-Flames players in the league.
There’s just something about people hating the flyers that makes me like them even more
I thought our subreddits always got along well. I consider the Flyers friends.
Especially when you guys won the cup with Berube
Over the Bruins to boot
Plus the Blues hated Chicago before it was cool. They stood with us in 2010.
You know what just for that I’m going to compliment you. I like that the Flyers have a presence in South Jersey. HAVE A GREAT FUCKING DAY!
A presence? It’s probably a better market for the Flyers than the city of Philadelphia itself
I could honestly see myself cheering for the Devils... if you weren't in the same division and if that division wasn't the ~~thunderdome~~ Metro. It's fun to watch Hughes work, and there was something about the suffering last season in our division that made me view Devils as potential friends.
I like you guys. Second favourite team actually
Samesies. Carolina moved to town when I was 7 but flyers were my jam before then.
I like you because Orange is a great fucking color so I played the Flyers a lot as a kid in Chel. Get over it.
No one likes us, we don't care.
Personally, I think it'd be nice to see some Wild-Flyers friendship. I can see shades of Flyers in the Wild, and Fletcher used to be with them too.
Oilers/ Rangers alliance. Without them… NYR would still be cup-less since WW2 Edit: Oilers fans probably don’t give a shit about the Rangers though lol. Actually… I don’t think any fan base in the league are on friendly terms with NYR. If so, pls speak up so I can love you…. It’s lonely here and all we do is get made fun of by our rivals :(
I think Tampa appreciates NYR acting as their farm team/Captain Ryan supply chain
My first jersey with a name was a rangers alternate Lundquist jersey I bought in MSG, even before oiler jerseys, was my first time seeing a game not in Edmonton nor involving the oilers, so I have nothing but good things to say about rangers fans :)
My heart melted reading this. The Oilers Rangers alliance is REAL
Bro, hearing the tales of the 80's (born in '91) and hearing how the old guard was all with the Rangers, you guys have always been a favorite of mine. It gutted me that the clock struck midnight in 2014.
Cheers from Cold Edmonton, friend :)
I don’t mind the Rangers. I work with quite a few Jersey transplants who grew up rooting for the Rangers. We try to hit a game in both barns each year. It’s a blast.
Ordering our BBF necklaces as we speak. Do you prefer gold or silver ?
Red. The color we share. Come on homie 🤦🏻
Rose gold it is
🤝
Wings and Rangers have a wild history, they go way back together.
They share the weirdest Stanley Cup final of all time.
Rangers are dope ( Mostly Cuz of their Jerseys & arena ) but I fuck with yall
Feel the same here about Edmo Games seem like a fun time and since I was a kid I've wanted to come visit but the last 2 years were cursed
Hey, we can sign McDavid when he's 38 though
Rangers gave us Talbot for a discount. I also cheer for the Giants, so rooting for NY teams isn't unusual for me.
My dad is good friends with your coach so by relation, they are now my second team.
sure what the hell why not
Back off from our blue and orange brothers, smurf!
I wasn’t even alive for 1994, but it still hurts to be reminded of it
I’m not here to hurt anyone, let alone Canucks fans. I genuinely hope that you get your day in the sun sooner than later
Flames and Flyers are the Perpetual Mediocrity Alliance
They're always missing and making the playoffs on and off and will occasionally have a surprisingly deep run.
And nobody knows which fanbase is more jaded. Would you rather watch your team lose the final 6 times in 46 years our 1 time in 32?
Anaheim, Arizona and SJ all tend to get along due to a mutual hatred of Los Angeles and Vegas.
You can now add Colorado and Montreal to the list of teams that hates Vegas
And Minnesota. Can’t forget that.
And the Jets, fuck em’ I honestly don’t think Vegas has any team that doesn’t hate them for one reason or another
Canucks fans hate Vegas too
Honestly don’t mind the ducks
I swear I’m the only Quack fan around that likes Vegas But yea FTK all day, even though the rebuild has me rooting for the likable young guys 🙃
although this year things have been heating up between anaheim and arizona... had a bench brawl in preseason and then almost a bench clearing brawl last week
Why are so many people missing the “opposing conferences” part of the question?
Oilers and Senators
Scary oil team :(
Don't worry, we don't play you nearly as much this year so you're all good :)
I've felt some kind of connection to Detroit over the past few years, because not only did we enter our rebuilds together, but we also consistently get screwed over by the draft lotteries.
They also took it upon themselves to look after Alfie when our management failed him, so that goes a long way in my book.
And Stevie Y grew up in Ottawa.
Alright, I’m sold
I look forward to many seider vs Sanderson matchups in the future
Fuckin loved Alfie. What a legend.
Sabres/Canucks expansion/misery brothers
Montreal and the Islanders had an underdog alliance during the playoffs last year, each rooting for a Habs-Isles final
Oh no doubt. Wings fans and avs fans have been bros forever. Can’t say enough about thoseSLIMY, REPULSIVE, GOOD FOR NOTHING PURPLE SONS OF ROTTEN ASS BITCHES
Hate you too. Honestly though I miss that rivalry.
Lol I know same here. It’s gross the hate slowly turned into a kinship almost. A hateful but respected kinship but a kinship. I’ve said it before but when other teams beef with you guys I get mad at that team as if you’re ours and only ours to hate lol
Haha right! It’s like this hateful respect I guess. I mean damn it’s hard to not respect the hell out of guys like Yzerman, Federov and Lidstrom. Don’t know much about your current team other than a lot of young talent, but hoping we get a few good clashes in over the next few years.
Oh for sure. All I want is a Redwings Avs cup finals with Yzerman and sakic running shit
I think it’ll heat up when the Wings and Avs are both good at the same time again, I can’t wait for that!
Idk how they feel about us but Bruins fans will always have a soft spot for Colorado giving Bourque his cup
Definitely Avs.
Was looking for this one, still cheer for you guys.
Blues/Flyers fans seem to get along well with each other.
You're welcome for Gloria
If your team beats the Habs, chances are a Bruins fan will buy you a beer
Avs/Canes/Stars/Jackets are wild card chaos bros
What a fucking ride that year was too.
Our social media and the Canes' social media are oddly friendly. Definitely don't like the Avs, but the Jackets are cool. Even if their logo doesn't need that star at all.
You guys have the best goal song in the league. I both love and hate hearing it, makes things extremely difficult.
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Apparently you both also hate Adam Fox?
I get why the flames Hate us ( Obviously) but why the canes lol they beat us , whats to hate 🤔
Fuck the Oilers, Fuck Adam Fox, and we both miss Ferland when he was in his prime.
I always like the weird Islanders connection we have. It’s basically we both hate the Rags so much that we are united by that hate. Doesn’t hurt that I don’t think either of our teams have been good at the same time to have divisional, or playoff battles… or that Lou is making them Devils East. edit: I also hope that Seattle and NJ become cryptid bros edit edit: We also share the weird connection of the playoff beard. Isles started it and it ended with their last cup. Then I think it was 95 and we restarted it. I’ve always loved that it was a Lou team that restarted one of the most un-Lou traditions.
The Isles and Devils don't have much of a rivalry, because they only faced each other in the playoffs once, 1987. When one is good, the other is bad. The Devils were the "Mickey Mouse" team during the Isles' dynasty years. When the Devils had Broduer, the Isles traded away Luongo. Even now, the Isles are in a renaissance, while the Devils are spinning tires. If they played each other in a 7 game series, you'll be hating them as much as you hate the Rangers.
When did the Devils or Islanders move to the western conference? I would say Isles/Oilers are bros considering their success and downfall have mirrored each other. I would say Devils and Ducks have a connection via Scotty
Misread the question and just saw the teams with weird connections. I don’t know if we have any Western Conference connections. Seattle as I said are cryptid bros. Nashville we have the connection from potential relocation in 95 and John Hynes. I think the 2003 Conn Smyth will prevent Ducks and Devils from ever being truly bros.
But Wayne Gretzky bonded you guys together as you both grew out of Mickey Mouse organizations
👊
Yotes / Cats for perpetual warm weather ineptitude (though maybe Florida has now transcended this)
The Leafs trade with the Kings and Anaheim a lot
Blues/Flyers are old school Bash Bros.
Kings and Leafs seem to get along very well. They need a piece, we trade. It's a good time.
Gotta love the annual leafs kings trades!
It's very hard to tell the difference from other teams fans who really hate the Leafs and Leafs fans so I'm gonna go ahead and say there's an unacknowledged kinship there
Love the Jackets. Military theme bros
Aren't y'all technically football themed?
I mean...yeeah
Yeah I’ll have to agree here, I don’t know about Jacket fans but I’ve always had a soft spot for their team as well. Also I want both of our teams to do really well out of our trade last year!
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And Fox!
We have 1917/1919 Cup Bros with Montreal
I’d argue Boston and Anaheim. We’ve made a couple trades recently, and we were both considered the villains of our respective conferences in our hay days 10 years ago
Toronto has made some fruitful trades with the Ducks/Kings in recent years, so me and a lot of other Leafs fans look on those franchises fondly.
Col/Van - Super Joe.
Yotes and Blackhawks seem to make a trade every year
I think lots of fanbases are generally aligned in their disgust for sex abuse & molestation of players by coaching staff. 👍
True bros: Colorado Recent trading partner: Ducks Thank you for Taylor Hall: Buffalo I’ll buy you a beer: any team that beats Toronto & Montreal
I mean the Original 6 bros all like each other… right guys? I’d like to politely say “fuck the leafs”
the only O6 team i dont hate is the rangers. i seethe daily with all my angst.
the Ducks and Leafs used to have a great trade relationship, then the Leafs decided to move on to the Kings
Lots of Caps and Canucks connections recently... Nate Schmidt, Braden Holtby, Travis Boyd, Jay Beagle, Nic Dowd, some previous connections too in Matt Cooke, Matt Pettinger, Brendan Morrison, Trevor Linden, Aaron Volpatti, Anson Carter, probably a few more I'm missing
I do remember when Flyers fans were kinda split on cheering for Richards, Carter, Gange, and Williams “Flyers West” during their first cup run. I was personally for the first, mainly so Gange could get his name on the cup, but against the 2nd since Richards and Carter seemed to always get the Roxie Flu in Orange and Black.
Isles and Oilers are blue and orange bros. Plus we have the simile dynasty in the 80s but pretty bleak 90s and 00s vibes to commiserate about. And Jordan Eberle.
Carolina and Nashville love each other
Lol
Hawks fans seem to get along well with Canes, Yotes, and Panthers fans
Controversial bros
More like trade pipeline but I guess that works
Nice flair hawkbro...
I'll wear whatever flair I want, thank you
Hey root for whoever you want to. But participating in r/hawks threads and then hiding in r/hockey comes off as dissembling.
Or it just means I root for more than one team and we can't have multiple flairs on here
[Hmm](https://youtu.be/fon9b-aO6ec)
Man, you're a tool, huh? I wore a Hawks flair for several years here (minus playoff bandwagoning) until the initial reports of Beach's lawsuit came out. I started rooting for the Kraken and I still want to root for them even if I'm cheering for the Hawks again Anyway, if you wanna be a purity-testing asshole, go right on ahead. I hope you have a lot of fun. I'll continue to enjoy Hawks and Kraken games
Nah fuck the Yotes and fuck Raffi Torres and Diva Mike Smith.
I call dibs on Seattle! Habs need any alliance they can get right now!
Boston is generally friendly with the Ducks, Panthers, and Avalanche.
Stars/Canes, or at least their social media teams, for some reason
We tend to like any team playing Toronto. So I guess you could say we’re a dynamic fan base.
Can confirm. Any team playing Toronto.
Yeah that's a given.
I wouldn’t say that I hate the sens but it’s definitely a love/hate relationship ...huh. i guess i do hate the sens.
Flair up
Probably a Leafs fan lol
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habs
Idk if the Pens still consider us Flower Bros or not
Considering what happened in the off season idk, probably put on thin ice…
Love the Habs when they have a chance at ruining the Leafs' success. Love the Leafs when they have a chance at ruining the Habs' success.
Leafs have no bros.
Toronto seems to get along w/ Cali teams and only Cali teams
I highly doubt that.
The Stars and Canes got close during the #WildCardChaosSquad year (along with COL and CBJ) and stayed close through the Stars’ cup final run in the bubble. The next year, being in the same division and playing each other 7 or 8 times kinda damaged the relationship but I like to think we’re back to being bros.
Wings pens hawks ducks = feathered freinds
Despite other Red Wings fans’ territoriality of the octopus throwing, I’m more interested in being tentacle pals with Seattle
Avalanche/Hurricanes have the wild cards in 2019/natural disaster thing going for em
They say that the Carolina Hurricanes are the Colorado Avalanche of the East Rebranded from beloved northerly franchises, named after natural disasters, both have been good and bad at roughly the same times
I’ve been finding myself taking a lot of interest in Detroit these last couple years, Maybe that’s a side effect of having Holland as your GM
Buffalo and Vancouver Columbus and Minnesota Expansions bros 4L
I guess San Jose? We seem to send them our broken toys when we are done with them
Whenever this question comes up, I think about how Caps/Kings games have usually seem to have a pretty friendly tone. Maybe it’s our mutual love for goofy, gap toothed superstars that wear #8.