Who is your Eastern Conference Team?

Been of a fan of the Sabres for a while now, I try to catch as many games of theirs as I can on Center Ice.

but somehow I like the flyers…

cool color scheme, and they have a weird ragtag feel that I like. It seems like their not quite in the elite and are always the upstart causing some upsets.

Unlike Drew Remenda’s popular belief, Jumbo isn’t the best player in the league. Best playmaker? Definitely. The best player in the league would have to be Mr. Ovechkin. I somewhat followed them last year, secretly of course, so as to not get my ass kicked by any fellow Sharks fans. I still love the Sharks more than any sports team, but given Lord Stanley’s consequences, I have to go with the Capitals

When my Mom’s side of the family came to the U.S. after WW II, they moved to Jersey.

Therefore, I’m tied to the Devils. I’m also tied to the mafia.

Still follow the Devils, Scott Stevens – Scott Niedermayer was my fav. D pairing ever, still have an NJ Jersey from the mid-90’s that looks almost exactly the same as they do now. Love the continuity.

but as they dont exist, I guess I’ll follow the franchise to Carolina.

I was surprised how much I just didn’t care about any of them much. However, because of the history and a nod to our noble northern neighbors, I’d pick Montreal. Hearing the celebration/announcements in both French and English over their PA system would be cool too.

Pens and Caps. PenCaps.

Philadelphia Flyers. Easiest choice I ever made.

Contrary to popular belief, I dig Chris Pronger. He is the definition of a defenseman. Big, mean, dirty as all hell, heavy shot from the blueline, refuses to lose, an absolute menace to society. Do I hate him? Of course. Doesn’t mean I can’t love him. I know, it’s complicated.

I’ve always enjoyed watching Braydon Coburn play. Like I mentioned in the FTF Fantasy Draft, he and Pronger are going to eat children this season. My God it’s going to be excellent.

Scott Hartnell is a tool and so is Danielle Briere, but other than that the rest of the team is sick. Simon Gagne has always been a favorite sniper of mine, and I never fail to pick him up in whatever NHL series is currently out.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the physical teams (see Flames, Calgary) and Philly fits that mold to a T.

Well, gotta run to my parole hearing. Go Flyers!

Let me add that I also root for the Pens when the Sharks get bounced, mostly due to my relationship with the guys at The Pensblog.

It’s like the one team we never hear about in San Jose.

I would say it would have to be between those two, because like others have said before Ovechkin is really the only player that can entice me to watch a team I have nothing to do with.

Sens because of Cheech and Michalek…if the sharks can’t take the cup the no one better than two of our own previous sharks.

Probly go with the Caps if I had to pick just one though.

But I’ll root for Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Carolina. My soul feels slightly less dark in rooting for them.

Dunno, maybe its just a red thing. I see the Canes as like the eastern version of us…except they’re better in the playoffs.

Ovechkin is awesome, if he keeps messing around we will be telling our kids when we saw him break some of Gretzky’s records… And yes, I believe that just might happen if he plays long enough. Boston for no other reason that most of my hockey friends hate them so I root for them just to piss them off (they are Dallas, Detroit, and Pittsburgh fans).

My first NHL team was the Caps (I fell in love with a guy and the Caps in college – the guy’s not around anymore but still have love for the Caps.) I still wear my Oates jersey and wore it to game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals in 1998 (we don’t need to discuss how that series ended do we?)

When I moved out here I got Center Ice and tried to follow them – even wore my Caps jersey to Sharks/Caps games…and then it happened. I went to the Sharks/Caps game a couple of weeks after the Thornton trade and something felt different in HP pavillion. The team was playing better, the fans were so excited, etc. I slowly realized that I was rooting for the Sharks instead of the Caps. At first I felt like a traitor, but then I realized I could love both teams. But slowly I have loved the Sharks more and more and even though I have a Washington Caps license place holder thingy on my car, I am now 80% a Sharks fan and 20% a Capitals fan.

i voted for the washington capitals because of A.O. but i also like the carolina hurricanes

WOW. Am I the only Dev’s fan?

I grew up in the days of the original 6, and the OK City Blazers were the Bruins top farm team. Can’t help it. Don’t know much about them now, or really care. But there will always be a spot in my heart for the B in the hub

Good lazy Friday afternoon fanpost, a10d2a.

The Bruins-Sens game is on NHL Network right now. It’s hard to see…

1. Cheechoo in a red jersey.
2. Lucic and Cheechoo in the same game is challenging for the announcers.
3. It was nice to see some Cheechoo love in a poster held by the kid on the zamboni – “Cheechoo He Scores”

Probably followed by the Sens.

pens

Mainly because of Ovechkin, but Matt Bradley was one of my favorite Sharks of all time, even for the little bit he was here and it was great to see him have success last year.

Ovechkin, Ovechkin, Ovechkin

I can’t really pin it down, but I’ve always liked them as my East Coast team since I started following hockey. Could be the nickname=awesome, but I’m not really sure. I even had them tracked as my second hockey team on Yahoo (the thing that allows you to customize your alerts for two teams) before I started going to a lot of Hawks games. If the Hawks were in the East, it’d easily be them. So much tradition, the pre-game always gives me the chills (and they have a song).

They dressed me in Braves and Georgia Bulldogs swag when I was little. Therefore, I tried to be a good Atlanta Thrashers fan – but it was hard because I could never watch their games (unlike the Braves) and well, they sucked. I was intrigued by their talent – but I ‘turned off’ Atlanta after the accident (so yeah, It’s a strange full circle type circumstance to see Heatley in teal)

When I started to follow hockey at the start of this decade, I developed an affinity for the Philly Flyers – because of their storied history (Broad Street Bullies) and the ’04 WCF run which saw the Primeau bros. talking every night on the phone – expecting their destiny to be a Stanley Cup showdown.

I also loved JR and enjoyed his stint in the black & orange. All in all I dig their style. I think I’d fit in well with those crazy fans at the Wachovia Center.

I’m also greatly intrigued by the Pelle Lindbergh story.

"A goalie stands on a very lonely island, and I’m grateful that I was able to share some of that island with him, but for too brief a period. Pelle Lindbergh had become, without question, one of hockey’s greatest goalies. When death defeats greatness, we mourn. And when death defeats youth, we mourn even more." – Bernie Parent

the reason I began liking them in the first place was because the Sharks had lost in the second round. it’s weird how things come about. Anyways, I keep tabs on their games during the season.