New Rivarly??
by detroitsucks13 on Nov 9, 2011 1:42 AM PST
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Today the Ducks will take on the team that eliminated them this past April, the Nashville Predators. Now while the playoff series was a good one, there hasn't been much talk about the veiled animosity between these two teams. Now most of you might be thinking, are you on crack? Nashville has been a team for barely 10 years and therefore don't have the kind of history with the Ducks teams like Detroit and LA have. Also the Music City doesn't have much animosity with the land of rich folks and Mickey Mouse. However, during the playoff series there was so much trash talk and insults flying over fan sites and Facebook that it sounded like there had been a rivarly for 20 years. I was one of them because as each game went on, I soon began to hate everything to do with the Predators (except for Carrie Underwood of course). Part of me doesn't really care anymore, kind of like how I hated New Jeresey for a few years following the '03 Cup Final. But, there is that little voice in my head that would love to see there to be bad blood between the Ducks and Preds. Only time will tell.
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There’s not really a history with LA. We’ve played like 2 relevant games against them in our entire history.
As for this rivalry, I think, at least on our end, we largely reacted to a negative assault from Nashville fans. Almost every California rivalry has at least some root in the fact that people simply hate California. I think that’s mostly what happened here.
by Daniel AC on Nov 9, 2011 7:30 AM PST via mobile reply actions
I have really enjoyed the competition between the Preds and Ducks. It has always seemed like a very competitive rivalry and with recent playoff history to boot I consider it a rivalry.
Why not call it a rivalry. It only serves to build excitement. As for trash talking online, well, at least they aren’t Sharks fans ;)
for a true “rivalry”, i feel like both teams need to have lost something to the other, giving each team a real reason to dislike the other. pretty 1 sided “rivalry” thus far.
just saying.. what have the Ducks done to the Preds to draw Nashville’s ire? for Nashville, it’s just another game on the schedule. business as usual. for the Ducks, it’s much more, according to their captain.
It’s cute that you want to play, kid, but comeback when you don’t have to cling to your one playoff victory like Lindsay Lohan clinging to a fifth.
by Daniel AC on Nov 9, 2011 1:23 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
well, the Preds have a similar relationship with Detroit. Preds view them as a big rival. the Red Wings have knocked the Preds out of the playoffs 2x, plus there are a few car manufacturers around Nashville that have brought alot of people from Michigan to the area so there is always lots of Wings fans at Preds games. but i don’t think Det. looks at it as so much of a rivalry as Nashville has yet to really upset Detroit.
but if it makes you feel any better, Columbus likes to think of Nashville as a “rival” too because the Preds have beat them so badly over the years. so there is that..
It's not a rivalry
Rivalries aren’t forged with one meeting in the first round of the playoffs.
The Ducks are equal rivals (as in we consider them rivals and they consider us rivals) with LA and San Jose. The Ducks are one way rivals with Detroit (we consider them rivals but they don’t really consider Anaheim rivals, guess Detroit has that relationship with most teams though) and Minnesota (Ducks fans are indifferent towards the Wild but they really hate the Ducks because we’ve dominated them in the playoffs a few times, plus their first ever game was a loss in Anaheim).
Fight on!
EMAW!
Don’t kid yourself, that Detroit rivalry isn’t one way. They just like to pretend it is.
by Daniel AC on Nov 9, 2011 11:39 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
The two teams have certainly faced off in the postseason enough to say that it's a rivalry for both teams
But I feel like Anaheim needs one more playoff win against Detroit to really make it an equal rivalry. The 09 series against Detroit was some of the best, most entertaining hockey I’ve ever seen. One more series like that (but with Anaheim coming out on top) would do the trick.
But I’ve always thought that more than three rivals in any sport is kinda pushing it. I would say Detroit already has equal rivalries with Chicago, Colorado and St. Louis, and they have a historical rivalry against Toronto that’s been lost due to conference alignment.
Fight on!
EMAW!
I wouldn’t necessarily still call St.Louis a rival team to Detroit. The confrontations between the two teams in recent memory seem very one-sided.
"That might've been a little push, but that was a major flop. That would make Vlade Divac very proud." - Jerry Reynolds
I don’t see why we need another playoff victory for them to hate us more than they do. That’s pretty arbitrary. Also, there’s no one left from the old Detroit-Colorado rivalry except Lidstrom.
Sorry, the Ducks and the Wings are rivals. Deal with it.
by Daniel AC on Nov 10, 2011 8:29 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I think that every team in the NHL hates the Wings.
They’re old now, but they’ve been the class of the NHL for the past 20 years, which fuels the hatred. I’m not sure how much the Wings hate everyone else, though (though the Sharks seem to have their number). The Wings’ number 1 rivalry will always be with the Hawks.
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