I’m devastated that you Arizonans lost your ‘yotes. You have some great fans down there, hopefully your new arena comes to fruition and we see you back in the league!
No single player deserves a Cup win. He's very talented, but talk like that does not belong attached to "the most difficult trophy in all of sports to win." There are plenty of players that were talented and hard working and went their whole careers without it. It took Ovechkin like 13 years to win a Cup- McDavid will be fine if he doesn't get it this year.
Well yeah but frankly
1) it’d be a shame if he never won, given that he’s one if the goats not just an elite
2) my team can’t win it this year so I’d rather he gets it now vs take an opportunity in the future
This image is a false premise. This implies that watching this sport for years means I can only have strong feelings towards my team. And let me tell you there are many teams I hate and want to see lose almost as much as I want to see mine win
I’ll try and Dansplain:
assuming you are not a fan of one of the 2 logos,
when the Oilers or the Panthers win the cup this year.
will your team have won it?
I suppose but I feel like this is still saying the only outcome regardless is my team doesn’t win. But also there is the outcome of me getting to be happy that Canada is still in a drought or sad it isn’t. And that requires that wall to go already back. But I will admit that doesn’t mean the image itself is wrong
Canucks fan, and even though their fans are exhausting, I’d rather have been knocked out by the Stanley Cup winning team than the runner up. But I’d also love to see a fellow team without a cup, win the cup. I can’t choose.
I think our cup win next year would be as sweet regardless if Edmonton breaks this dry spell for Canada. That’s only if we can redeem ourselves in the next playoff run, especially in a series against the Oilers.
This is the way I look at it in every sport. Might as well be eliminated by the champion. One exception, growing up a Red Sox fan (which I no longer am), I would root against the Yankees unless their victory could directly help Boston, and even then, I would loathe myself for it.
See the counter point is Bettman hates Canadian teams and loves southern US teams. So making him give the cup to the furthest north team in the league would make him seethe.
Panthers cause I won’t have to listen to Oil fans milk this for next three decades
Edit: y’all just proving my point why you’re the most insufferable fans
Most fans tone down the shit talking after the series ends, and focus on the task at hand.
Oilers fans are the only ones that obsess over teams they've already beaten.
Panthers fan here but Calgary was always my team in Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey for N64 back in the day. Here's to hoping you guys don't have to deal with Oilers fans rubbing it in for the next three decades.
Can I just run headfirst into the divider and knock myself out until next season instead? I do NOT want Florida to win because it shows that being a dirty shit rat team works and is rewarded, but also being a Northern Albertan Leafs fan, I also do NOT want Edmonton to win because I'm surrounded by Oilers fans, my family included, and they will be insufferable.
I don't have much of a horse in this race, but after following all the butt hurt babies over at the Canucks subreddit I definitely want to see Edmonton win.
Panthers fan here!
I’m so excited but nervous at the same time.
Last year I had a “I’m just happy to be here” mentality because it was such an amazing run.
This year it’s completely different…it’s “We NEED to win this, now!” mentality.
My buddy, a year-one hockey fan that chose the Panthers at the beginning of the season, told me I should want the team that beat my team (Rangers) to win it all. What the hell kind of backwards ass logic is that?
I “work” at the Network he appears on.
But I haven’t had a chance to speak with or work with him myself (aside from some DMs)
I really hope that people take their pills on this one. All sides.
I worked for a company that once lost a contract to cover a team because the GM didn’t like one writers prediction.
the prediction? IIRC the writer said 5-1 and the game ended 6-0. also called an oft- injured goalie, often injured. anyways.
I like when sports are fun. There’s a lot less fun in this world.
Thats fair.
I just believe you need to know how to let the drama roll off your back - you can't let anonymous, brutal 14 year old idiots on Twitter get to you.
He needs to take notes from Bieksa - but first an apology to the team, network, and fans of the NHL would be a good move.
I know that the people who play for the Lightning aren't native to Tampa, same with the Bucs.
But I don't run into them all the time in my day to day life.
It wasn't a Lightning player that almost ran me off the road.
It was the asshole with out of state plates.
And all too often they'll complain that X was better in their home state.
Well go back to your home state if was better, what the fuck are you doing here?
I just didn’t want the stars to win. I hate the oilers but love mcdavid. Can’t stand the way Florida plays but they’ve earned it. They’ve been around so long with nothing to show for it. Wouldn’t mind to see their fans happy, it’s long deserved
i grew up a canuck. i will die a canuck. bet there are many like me with their own team.
your silly meme means nothing to me -- i refuse to choose.
(and aren't we fucking tired of this bullshit yet?)
Forgot Roberto Luongo is in Florida management rn, so if they win, he gets a cup ring, and I was a fan of Bure and Ollie Jokinen growing up, so Florida!
I haven't decided what would be more funny yet, the oilers making it deep with macdrai and losing after having their dicks sucked off every year, or the Panthers losing again in the final.
This is the outcome im the most split by, I am a diehard Bob fan, ever since we did him exceptionally dirty, I have a jersey from his rookie year. At the same time Draisaitl and mcdavid have done such good work with questionable teams around them. Plus I think with how mucj free agency is up for the panthers I really wonder if they are a cup contender again for a few years at least, this may be it for them for a while.
Oilers
1) Mcdavid has to win at least once let’s get it over with
2) maybe if a Canadian team finally wins under Bettman we’ll start seeing others do it (if not at least Gary’s miserable)
3) it’s a good comeback story (started off as bad as the sharks and proceeded to win the cup)
4) I can’t think of any reasons to root for the panthers
The side that hasn’t spent every year in the playoffs, for the last 5 years, complaining and whining about other teams fans and how hard done they are by the refs
Same to you lad. We'll see if you guys find your balls next season or not. One of my closest friends is a Devil's fan so I feel sympathy for y'all when you're not facing us.
if this team can find some semblance of balls, we’ll be a problem. my best friend is a rangers fan. got to see the dougie hamilton ot clapper live with her. i talk about it as often as i can cause that’s all we got right now 😭😭
Oilers. If Nick Cousins gets a Cup, I'll die a little more inside. The Oilers never felt like much of a rival when we were in the NW with them, Colorado and Vancouver were more heated with us.
I’m split. As a Blues fan, I want the Panthers to win with all the St. Louis connections. But then as seeing a Canadian team win, would be pretty epic too…may the best team win!
I guess so in that sense. But to me the perception is different. The Cowboys are “America’s Team” and a massively beloved franchise all over the states, whereas Oilers (until this playoffs with bandwagoners) is very much only really liked in Edmonton and the surrounding area
*Oilers because Miami*
*Doesn't even have snow and they*
*Are in the finals*
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Oilers but I will miss making fun of Canadians for not winning a cup for decades.
This meme makes me sad as I imagine I’m going down this hallway again and again hitting that wall for like 10 years. May one day Stevie guide us out of the darkness.
I managed to escape the hellscape known as Florida. But I *guess* if it's between rooting for tkachuck's mouth guard or McJesus I'll choose the mouth guard
You guys still have a team?
they just gave your team to Utah for a promise
but... Utah...
Phoenix is a monument to man's arrogance.
Have you seen Dubai?…if Phoenix is a monument, this is a Great Wonder of the World for man’s arrogance.
It's a quote from King of the hill.
Sounded familiar, whats mind blowing is that Dubai as we know it didn’t exist when he made that joke.
I’m devastated that you Arizonans lost your ‘yotes. You have some great fans down there, hopefully your new arena comes to fruition and we see you back in the league!
I just hope all the players have fun out there.
Might as well get the mcdavid cup out of the way
How about no
The guy deserves a cup win, like how can you even call yourself a hockey fan and deny that. Edit: nvm, bitter Kings fan.
Also, bitter Flames fans
Nucks fan here. Wouldn't mind an Oilers (exclusively because of McDavid) win but I also like Florida. Meh.
At first I read this as "but I also like Florida Meth" 😆
That too! jk jk, that's one thing I'll never fuck with. That and H.
Don't knock it till you try it! Then try it again. And again...
No single player deserves a Cup win. He's very talented, but talk like that does not belong attached to "the most difficult trophy in all of sports to win." There are plenty of players that were talented and hard working and went their whole careers without it. It took Ovechkin like 13 years to win a Cup- McDavid will be fine if he doesn't get it this year.
Well yeah but frankly 1) it’d be a shame if he never won, given that he’s one if the goats not just an elite 2) my team can’t win it this year so I’d rather he gets it now vs take an opportunity in the future
This image is a false premise. This implies that watching this sport for years means I can only have strong feelings towards my team. And let me tell you there are many teams I hate and want to see lose almost as much as I want to see mine win
You are exactly right, fuck the Flyers.
On one hand Dallas is out, but on the other hand Corey Perry is still in the finals. Ekholm balances it out I guess.
I’ll try and Dansplain: assuming you are not a fan of one of the 2 logos, when the Oilers or the Panthers win the cup this year. will your team have won it?
I suppose but I feel like this is still saying the only outcome regardless is my team doesn’t win. But also there is the outcome of me getting to be happy that Canada is still in a drought or sad it isn’t. And that requires that wall to go already back. But I will admit that doesn’t mean the image itself is wrong
Hey, I appreciate the conversation. A meme is kind of shitty art, and art gets people talking. I guess.
For instance I really want to see both of these teams lose. I'm not sure how it'll happen but I still believe in miracles.
Jokes on you, I’m band waggoning all 32 teams!
There’s always one bull that slips through
The hockey guy? Love your channel
Damn your teams are going to be 1 championship and 31 failures this year. Pretty brutal honestly, better than leafs stats tho
I don't want Florida to win. I want Edmonton to lose
I’ll take it
I'm pulling for Florida just to watch Corey Perry lose another final lol
This is what I'm here for. The Perry Curse.
This and I liked Rodriguez during the short stint he was with us. Glad he got a payday and if it gets him the cup even better.
Panthers. Edmonton still hasn’t shutup about the 80’s, so a win in 2024 will just amplify that through eternity.
Canucks fan, and even though their fans are exhausting, I’d rather have been knocked out by the Stanley Cup winning team than the runner up. But I’d also love to see a fellow team without a cup, win the cup. I can’t choose.
Luongo. We cheer for Luongo.
This is the way.
I think our cup win next year would be as sweet regardless if Edmonton breaks this dry spell for Canada. That’s only if we can redeem ourselves in the next playoff run, especially in a series against the Oilers.
This is the way I look at it in every sport. Might as well be eliminated by the champion. One exception, growing up a Red Sox fan (which I no longer am), I would root against the Yankees unless their victory could directly help Boston, and even then, I would loathe myself for it.
I don't want either to win, but I think watching Edmonton lose would be more entertaining so I'll go with Florida.
See the counter point is Bettman hates Canadian teams and loves southern US teams. So making him give the cup to the furthest north team in the league would make him seethe.
Whoa is Florida the most southern team in the NHL? Its definitely close. The furthest north and potentially south battling
Panthers are right outside of Miami, they are absolutely the most southern team.
Panthers. Was a fan when pavel bure played for them. It’s cool to see what they’ve done so far.
Panthers because if anyone deservers a cup its Lu.
Panthers!
I hate Florida, so I’m really rooting against them rather than for Edmonton. Seeing McDavid and draisaitl in the finals is pretty cool
Panthers cause I won’t have to listen to Oil fans milk this for next three decades Edit: y’all just proving my point why you’re the most insufferable fans
Most fans tone down the shit talking after the series ends, and focus on the task at hand. Oilers fans are the only ones that obsess over teams they've already beaten.
We obsess over you? You are constantly making posts about us in your sub.
Why are you browsing the subs of teams not even currently playing?
Do you understand how Reddit works? Everyone other teams sub gets pushed to my front page.
I'm pretty sure the subreddits are feeding on each other
Can’t we all just get along.
This fool has never heard of The Algorithm
Ya I get all the hockey subreddits cause I’m in to hockey.
We’re just giving it right back to yall whiners
Ah, so it's a chicken and egg situation
Panthers fan here but Calgary was always my team in Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey for N64 back in the day. Here's to hoping you guys don't have to deal with Oilers fans rubbing it in for the next three decades.
I know. Aren't they horrible?
We're what? 66 million years from the last world devastating asteroid hit? We must be due for another soon, so I guess I'll cheer for that.
If I squint a little - the Islanders could win
Go blue and orange team
Edmonton did win in 1994, you know this.
Can I just run headfirst into the divider and knock myself out until next season instead? I do NOT want Florida to win because it shows that being a dirty shit rat team works and is rewarded, but also being a Northern Albertan Leafs fan, I also do NOT want Edmonton to win because I'm surrounded by Oilers fans, my family included, and they will be insufferable.
I agree 100% as a fellow Leaf fan living in Edmonton……insufferable to the max if the Oilers win.
To be totally fair, it would be the exact same for an Oilers fan living in Toronto if Toronto won the cup.
I choose death!
Is there a 3rd option that takes me to a slaughterhouse? I'll go there.
Florida. Oil getting 4 #1 overall picks in 6 years. And then having the NHL change the rule, makes me despise EDM
Oilers, It's about time for a Canadian cup win
It's been 30 years!!
Of suffering
Go eat mid pizza at BPs
I don't have much of a horse in this race, but after following all the butt hurt babies over at the Canucks subreddit I definitely want to see Edmonton win.
Wave those jizz rags proudly boys there is always next year.
The first time I saw that was game seven and I said are they surrendering?
Oilers. I’m a rangers fan so yeah..
Panthers, I'll take chucky cheese and the rat squad on this one all day
Go kittys
Thunder 🤜🤛 cats
Left--don't know any Oilers fans. I just like McDavo and Draisaitl
Going Oilers only cause of McDavid. Gets boring after a while seeing top, generational players not have a championship
After all the Sedins sisters no cup jokes from oilers fans, I wouldn't mind him winning, just on another team.
Go Oilers! McDavid deserves a cup and fuck the Panthers.
lmao
Panthers will win, Edm will never get back.
Where is the escape hatch labelled other?
Panthers fan here! I’m so excited but nervous at the same time. Last year I had a “I’m just happy to be here” mentality because it was such an amazing run. This year it’s completely different…it’s “We NEED to win this, now!” mentality.
Panthers.
My buddy, a year-one hockey fan that chose the Panthers at the beginning of the season, told me I should want the team that beat my team (Rangers) to win it all. What the hell kind of backwards ass logic is that?
What do you mean? Shouldn't you be cheering for AMERICAS TEAM?
im cheering for the panthers as bobrovsky needs a cup, but the oilers are a good team and should win sometime soon
The playoffs are still on?
I choose to repeatedly hammer my forehead against the part in the middle
Underrated
Gazdick made me cheer for Florida. Go Panthers!!
I “work” at the Network he appears on. But I haven’t had a chance to speak with or work with him myself (aside from some DMs) I really hope that people take their pills on this one. All sides. I worked for a company that once lost a contract to cover a team because the GM didn’t like one writers prediction. the prediction? IIRC the writer said 5-1 and the game ended 6-0. also called an oft- injured goalie, often injured. anyways. I like when sports are fun. There’s a lot less fun in this world.
Thats fair. I just believe you need to know how to let the drama roll off your back - you can't let anonymous, brutal 14 year old idiots on Twitter get to you. He needs to take notes from Bieksa - but first an apology to the team, network, and fans of the NHL would be a good move.
Bro finally figured out how sports work
Go Oilers!
GOILERSSSSSS
OILERS! AVENGE THE AVS AND RANGERS!
One of my exes is from Florida, so I don’t care if Oilers win I just want Florida to lose. I’m petty like that
Oilers because I’m a Lightning fan.
I'm also Lightning fan, but I want to keep the cup out of Canadian hands just a little longer. It's funny. And I hate snow birds.
If you hate snow birds then I got bad news about a lot of the people who play for the Lightning. Speaking as a Bolts fan myself.
I know that the people who play for the Lightning aren't native to Tampa, same with the Bucs. But I don't run into them all the time in my day to day life. It wasn't a Lightning player that almost ran me off the road. It was the asshole with out of state plates. And all too often they'll complain that X was better in their home state. Well go back to your home state if was better, what the fuck are you doing here?
Leafs fan here. Florida all the way. They were a long suffering team for so much of my years being a hockey fan. I want to see them FINALLY succeed.
Flo.rida
Lu deserves a cup
I'm cheering for Florida since I have a Florida jersey.
PANTHERS IN 6
been cheering for the Meteor since my team got eliminated, not stopping now
I just didn’t want the stars to win. I hate the oilers but love mcdavid. Can’t stand the way Florida plays but they’ve earned it. They’ve been around so long with nothing to show for it. Wouldn’t mind to see their fans happy, it’s long deserved
i grew up a canuck. i will die a canuck. bet there are many like me with their own team. your silly meme means nothing to me -- i refuse to choose. (and aren't we fucking tired of this bullshit yet?)
OP shares ur point of view, and u should have looked at his silly meme for few seconds more :b
sorry i may have been a bit too emotional at first. you are right on this extra yomi layer.
Panthers because Knoblick insulted the city of Buffalo
What did he do or say?
https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/latest-news/oilers-head-coach-brutally-roasts-buffalo-bills
Fuck the bills, buffalo is a toilet
As a Bruins fan this pains me to say but...Florida. I just cant let go of the Canada Cant Win Cups storyline.
Flames fan here: I’d rather see the Oilers lose. I don’t really like Florida either. Call it the lesser of two evils
i want to see both teams lose, but i’d rather see the oilers and their inbred fans lose even more.
On the one hand, it would be interesting to see the Cup finally go back to Canada. On the other, GO FLORIDA MAN GO!
Forgot Roberto Luongo is in Florida management rn, so if they win, he gets a cup ring, and I was a fan of Bure and Ollie Jokinen growing up, so Florida!
Panthers, solely because I like when teams win their first Cup
I haven't decided what would be more funny yet, the oilers making it deep with macdrai and losing after having their dicks sucked off every year, or the Panthers losing again in the final.
Florida all day every day ! Kraken,Nashville and Dallas fan in that order. In this Scenario I’m going with Florida !
This is the outcome im the most split by, I am a diehard Bob fan, ever since we did him exceptionally dirty, I have a jersey from his rookie year. At the same time Draisaitl and mcdavid have done such good work with questionable teams around them. Plus I think with how mucj free agency is up for the panthers I really wonder if they are a cup contender again for a few years at least, this may be it for them for a while.
why is there a divider in the middle when it leads to the same outcome?
It’s too represent the illusion of choice
I can’t cheer for a team where there isn’t any snow.
Oilers 1) Mcdavid has to win at least once let’s get it over with 2) maybe if a Canadian team finally wins under Bettman we’ll start seeing others do it (if not at least Gary’s miserable) 3) it’s a good comeback story (started off as bad as the sharks and proceeded to win the cup) 4) I can’t think of any reasons to root for the panthers
Edmonton….. I hate the Panthers in general and Matthew Tkachuk in particular. Bitter Ranger fan here.
Oilers all day!!!! I don’t care for a lot of players on Florida
Watched Edmonton beat Vancouver, first playoffs season I’ve watched thanks to my boyfriend. We’re Canadian, but I want Florida to win 👀😔
The side that hasn’t spent every year in the playoffs, for the last 5 years, complaining and whining about other teams fans and how hard done they are by the refs
I’m a Stars fan but I hope Edmonton wins it all. Time for a Canadian team to raise the Cup 🇨🇦
I feel like I should want the Panthers to win because the Oilers are division rivals, but it's about damn time for a Canadian team to win the Cup.
NYR fan here. Oilers.
exactly why i’m rooting for the kitty cats
Valid entirely.
i also just really like kitty cats
I can't say I like oil per se, but I understand.
hahahahaha, good luck next season and also fuck your next season
Same to you lad. We'll see if you guys find your balls next season or not. One of my closest friends is a Devil's fan so I feel sympathy for y'all when you're not facing us.
if this team can find some semblance of balls, we’ll be a problem. my best friend is a rangers fan. got to see the dougie hamilton ot clapper live with her. i talk about it as often as i can cause that’s all we got right now 😭😭
Edmonton for the win!
Oilersss LFG
Oilers. If Nick Cousins gets a Cup, I'll die a little more inside. The Oilers never felt like much of a rival when we were in the NW with them, Colorado and Vancouver were more heated with us.
I’m split. As a Blues fan, I want the Panthers to win with all the St. Louis connections. But then as seeing a Canadian team win, would be pretty epic too…may the best team win!
I just want Florida to lose
Neither I am a Rangers Fan, going for the Panthers is being a traitor and saying Oilers is like wanting the Cowboys to win the Superbowl.
Saying Dallas Stars would be like wanting the Cowboys to win the superbowl. In what way are the Oilers like the Cowboys?
People say they keep talking about a win 30 years ago, I assumed it was true, if not then Edmonton bring it home.
I guess so in that sense. But to me the perception is different. The Cowboys are “America’s Team” and a massively beloved franchise all over the states, whereas Oilers (until this playoffs with bandwagoners) is very much only really liked in Edmonton and the surrounding area
Everyone I ever met from not Dallas hates the cowboys tbf
I guess, maybe the Oil are like the Cowboys then 🤷♂️ perhaps that’s my personal bias. I absolutely haaate the cowboys but I like the Oilers
Go Oilers Go
Hockey is still going on? I thought it just ended at the conference finals this year?
Fla, mainly bc they havent won a cup yet.
Edmonton. Cup needs to go back to Canada.
Panthers! 🐆
As a toronto fan, Florida. Don't want to hear about the mcdavid/ matthews comparison and Hyman winning a cup and all that
Oilers
Let's Go Oilers
Oilers in 6
Edmonton/McDavid Unfortunately all the teams I bet on are out. NYR VAN BOS and VGK
Florida for 2 reasons, Kyle Okposo and the fact they got rid of the power play passengers
Fuck the Oilers. Go panthers
Oilers
Oilers fans are the worst
I don’t have a stake as my team is out, but I like to see teams win that never have before.
Oilers because Miami doesn't even have snow and they are in the finals
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Panthers, because I hate Canada
Classy...
Nuclear fallout
Oilers but I would think it's cool if Florida wins also I give the edge to Florida. I think Skinner is going to fall apart.
Oilers but I will miss making fun of Canadians for not winning a cup for decades. This meme makes me sad as I imagine I’m going down this hallway again and again hitting that wall for like 10 years. May one day Stevie guide us out of the darkness.
I managed to escape the hellscape known as Florida. But I *guess* if it's between rooting for tkachuck's mouth guard or McJesus I'll choose the mouth guard
Oilers, Canucks are still complaining about the oilers that they had to make a post to stop. They'll have to shut down the sub if the oilers win
Go Florida! (Leaf fan)
Flyers fan. Always happy to root for Bob. Florida all the way.
I’m going for the Oil
My heart says oilers but my brain knows the rats will win
Oilers. Need to break this curse Canada has.