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Originally Posted by Rusty17
Wow!I had no idea there were so many people rooting for the Bolts.
Yeah,the media really played up the whole Canada's team thing at the time.
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Well - that '60/40' split is purely unscientific! But it was definitely not everyone in canada pulling for the flames. I saw two camps of fans - the 'you have to cheer for a canadian team' group and the 'I'll pick the team whose style and/or players I like' group. Same as this year. There is whole other split too - fans from western canada pulling for the western conference team, fans from eastern canada pulling for the Sens (except MapleLaff fans, I think they look at Ottawa the way edmontonians look at the flames and visa versa). Regardless - I think it's more complicated than a blanket statement that canada is roorting for the Sens. Probably true for the casual fan, but diffierent I think for the hard core hockey fan (HOCKEY fan as opposed to team ABC fan).