Overheard on Hockey Night In Canada...

[lance_sibley]

Harry Neale: "And the Vancouver Canucks can smell the Anaheim Mighty Ducks right now!"

Um, Harry? I'm not sure that's a good thing. You've been a coach... surely you've been in a hockey team's dressing room?

I think I'll be cheering for the Canucks the rest of the way. It's been a process of elimination:

Buffalo and Ottawa are out because all good Leafs fans hate them.
New Jersey is out because they didn't play Brodeur in goal in the final game against the Islanders.
New York and Detroit are out because... well, just because.
Anaheim is out because I refuse to take any team seriously that was named after an Emilio Estevez movie.
San Jose is out because I hate the colour teal.

That just leaves Vancouver.

Comments

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

As good a reason as any I suppose. I regret to admit that, in as much as I barely follow ice hockey, when I do I follow Detroit. It was my first US city and at that time I was actively trying to experience American culture. Between my first few months in Detroit and my next couple of months in Iowa, I end up following a bit of Wings, a bit of Packers and Lions and a bit of Pistons and Bulls. Baseball... well, I never got in to it much at all.