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Go Sens Go!

Skeezix said:
To follow your logic, Torontonians should not be excited if the Leafs ever win the cup because most of the Leaf players would likely be from places outside the GTA.
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No, thats following your logic. Reread my past posts regarding the subject, I find it ridiculous that people confuse the CLUB level with the NATIONAL level, people, like you. When I support the Leafs, I am supporting the leafs, not CANADA, however, your logic, we should all support Ottawa because they are a CANADIAN team. So don't confuse my logic with yours.
 
roch5220 said:
No, thats following your logic. Reread my past posts regarding the subject, I find it ridiculous that people confuse the CLUB level with the NATIONAL level, people, like you. When I support the Leafs, I am supporting the leafs, not CANADA, however, your logic, we should all support Ottawa because they are a CANADIAN team. So don't confuse my logic with yours.
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Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about, or what distinction you're trying to make.

And when did I say that people should be supporting the Sens because they are a Canadian team?
 
Well geez, all of that stuff you paraphrased was a dead giveaway. Look, all I am saying is that you have to differentiate between the club (NHL) level and international play. Being an Ontarioian and supporting the Leafs at the Club level, shouldn't automatically make you support Ottawa if they are still alive for the cup, after the Leafs didn't even make it to the playoffs. NHL and patriotic nationalism is mutually exclusive, your initial assumption of Leaf fans should be cheering for the Sens because it adds to our hopes of bringing the cup back to Ontario is definately an inference to patriotic provincialism.
 
roch5220 said:
Well geez, all of that stuff you paraphrased was a dead giveaway. Look, all I am saying is that you have to differentiate between the club (NHL) level and international play. Being an Ontarioian and supporting the Leafs at the Club level, shouldn't automatically make you support Ottawa if they are still alive for the cup, after the Leafs didn't even make it to the playoffs. NHL and patriotic nationalism is mutually exclusive, your initial assumption of Leaf fans should be cheering for the Sens because it adds to our hopes of bringing the cup back to Ontario is definately an inference to patriotic provincialism.
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Never heard of patriotic provincialism in the context of Ontario, but in any event, I think you read too much into what I said. All I was saying was that the only Ontario team with any likelihood of winning the cup in our lifetimes is Ottawa. A good-natured ribbing of Leafs fan, which wasn't intended to get anyone to hop on a "Ontario team" bandwagon. And then I quoted McGregor, who doesn't believe in this "Canada's team" stuff.
 
Really. If you wern't confused about why people were not jumping on the Ontario bandwagon, than why were you so caring about Leaf fans being so happy about Ottawa bring the cup to Ontario.

Skeezix said:
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You should all be happy about the Senators, because they represent the only chance that you'll ever see the Stanley Cup return to Ontario in your lifetimes.
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Skeezix said:
Ah, Leafs fans. The likelihood of the Toronto ever winning the Cup is so remote that some of you actually believe that having it at the Hockey Hall of Fame constitutes bringing it back to Ontario.
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roch5220 said:
Really. If you wern't confused about why people were not jumping on the Ontario bandwagon, than why were you so caring about Leaf fans being so happy about Ottawa bring the cup to Ontario.
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Yes, you win. Nothing was tongue in cheek, it was all a serious appeal to Ontario patriotism, whatever that is.

Sigh.
 
Well, you should have let people be in the first place with who they wanted to win without digging anything deeper. Hey, its hockey, and Toronto is blue and white. Talk about baseball, well, not too many will care.

Skeezix said:
"I want either Ducks/Wings to wing. Sorry, but I hate Alfredson, can't root for them so long as he is a Senator."

"Ottawa winning a cup is pretty much my worst nightmare come true. I'll cheer for anyone else, so GO DUCKS!"

"I would never, ever cheer for the Sens, same goes with the Habs. Go Ducks!"

It's these sort of comments, and the fact that these people are actually rooting for the great hockey town of Anaheim/Disneyland, that makes the recent success of the Senators especially sweet! In your face!
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Maybe opting for a different sport is the solution: like pistols at dawn.
 
^What the hell; I'm there too - so long as those who are armed know who to shoot at.
 
Leafs fan Mayor Miller will be first to pledge support -
50,000 pledges to be distributed Thursday in downtown Toronto

TORONTO, May 30 /CNW/ - Calling all hockey fans! Whether you're Oilers-obsessed, a Leaf-lover, Flames fanatic, or a committed Canadien or Canuck - the time for ice hockey rivalries is over. Scotiabank will launch an online pledge Thursday May 31st, at 5 a.m. that asks Canadians to support the Ottawa Senators and bring the world's greatest trophy back to Canada - the nation where hockey was born. Toronto Mayor David Miller will be the first Canadian to sign the pledge, along with Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan and Calgary Mayor David Bronconnier.

Participants who sign the pledge also have a chance to win two tickets to game six in Ottawa includes accommodation, travel and spending money). To spread the word to Torontonians, Scotiabank will be distributing 50,000 copies of the pledge on Thursday May 31st from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at Union Station and the intersection of Yonge and Bloor.

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Media Photo Opportunity:

Where: Union Station and the intersection of Yonge and Bloor

What: Senator-clad reps in hockey jerseys will be distributing 50,000
copies of the Scotia Pledge to support the Ottawa Sens and
bring the world's greatest trophy back to Canada

When: Thursday May 31st, 7 - 9:30 a.m. (Pledge goes live that morning
at 5 a.m.)

Why: Media are invited to attend and encouraged to ask Torontonians
(and devoted Leafs fans) where their loyalty lies - with their
team or their country?
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The Scotia Pledge

I, __________
devoted fan of the ____________________________
solemly swear to set aside team rivalries
for the duration of the season
and pledge my support
to the remaining Canadian team.

I hereby dedicate my hockey-loving soul
to their quest to bring the glory home
to the place where hockey was born,
where the game was perfected,
where its spirit runs deepest,
And where the world's greatest trophy belongs.

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Don't fall for it Leaf Nation.

Ducks in 4.
 
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