in no fucking universe and by no metric are we shittier than Vancouver or Montreal fans
seftnir
Wait, we’re slightly friendlier than the Rags and less frendily than the Bruins? 1000% their turn coat fans from Cary dragging us down.
492rankine
I feel like some newer hockey fans bring their behavior from local college sports rivalries (which tends to be a bit ugly) to the hockey world.
TalentedTrident
“Over 3000 fans” sounds like a lot at first, but when you divide it by the number of teams in the league it comes out to just around 100 fans per fanbase, which is not a good sample size. Moreover, they don’t actually tell us how their “weighted scale” works, and the metrics they used aren’t trustworthy. Of course we’re booing more if we play the Rags, but I don’t think there’d be too much if it was the Wild instead.
All that to say that this is a bunch of nonsense.
dragons_fire77
Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and doubt this one lol. I don’t think we are anywhere near the warmest, but I would guess jets/jackets ranking. Look at oilers ranking, I have seen extremely aggressive comments from their fanbase so I’m surprised they’re ranked where they are.
pinerw
Shocked, *shocked* that people would associate any kind of toxicity with the Bunch of Jerks.
BudWeiserIII
Yeah they skewed this data
blinker1eighty2
We have some shit ass Twitter fans that are so loud and make us look bad.
drakethesnake94
Based on the last two playoffs alone I can tell you that New York Islanders fans being the 2nd warmest fanbase is bullshit
Cinnamon_Shops
I guarantee you that this is because of how out of pocket our social media team occasionally gets. The “cry” shirts were the mail in the coffin.
socialaxolotl
Looks like they asked everyone exclusively in Florida
notyomamasusername
To be fair…. A huge chunk of our base wears Rags jerseys 2 games a year
JonTheWizard
I think it’s a lot of other teams’ fanbases dogpiling us because…I don’t know. Recency bias?
ttooley
This is one of the most idiotic sports surveys I have ever seen. Canes fans are loud as hell but aggressive doesn’t describe it for me. Now Boston and Montreal fans I’ve seen I would actually call Aggressive!!
SpentGladiator77
Ah yes, famously middle-of-the-road, completely average and normal fanbase Toronto.
My3rdReddit
Florida fans should be topping this list 100%
Shaman_Oz
Ottowa-like typing detected
redslush
The capitol fans are some of the biggest a-holes I’ve encountered in the nhl
Like17Badgers
>to rank the NHL fan basses accordingly, we utilized a weighted scale to assess each fan bases’ sportsmanship behaviors: frequency of booing, cheering for injuries, engaging in poor behaviors, trash talking, lack of empathy of the opponent’s loss, or physical fights frequency.
the fact that the *Blackhawks* win it shows it’s massively skewed. aint no way the Isles, Caps, and GK are in the bottom 5. especially if fan fights are a major part of it, only fan fights in PNC this year were Rags fans and Bums fans attacking Carolina fans
BRZA
Ahh, I see they utilized the “Let me pull something out of my ass” method…..
clinkyscales
Boston boos their own team. How are we colder than them lol
DoubleualtG
Clearly there’s 1-2 heavily weighted items that are scored colder that 5 fan bases hot some critical limit on.
Tflex92
I’ve been to a few games at TD Garden and many games at PNC……those Boston fans are savage.
nickkkk777
Sharks fans are the most hospitable and agreeable folks in the nhl and you can’t change my mind
This shouldn’t be based off user surveys. It should be based off negative comments in social media. That would give a better picture of what everyone experiences IMO.
macaroni_3000
The only thing this measures is which fans catch the most shit
dustball155
I would say most of this is dictated by online interactions – not so much “at the stadium” interactions. And based on that context? I would agree with this list to be fair.
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FUCK EM!!!!
LETS GO CANES !!!
in no fucking universe and by no metric are we shittier than Vancouver or Montreal fans
Wait, we’re slightly friendlier than the Rags and less frendily than the Bruins? 1000% their turn coat fans from Cary dragging us down.
I feel like some newer hockey fans bring their behavior from local college sports rivalries (which tends to be a bit ugly) to the hockey world.
“Over 3000 fans” sounds like a lot at first, but when you divide it by the number of teams in the league it comes out to just around 100 fans per fanbase, which is not a good sample size. Moreover, they don’t actually tell us how their “weighted scale” works, and the metrics they used aren’t trustworthy. Of course we’re booing more if we play the Rags, but I don’t think there’d be too much if it was the Wild instead.
All that to say that this is a bunch of nonsense.
Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and doubt this one lol. I don’t think we are anywhere near the warmest, but I would guess jets/jackets ranking. Look at oilers ranking, I have seen extremely aggressive comments from their fanbase so I’m surprised they’re ranked where they are.
Shocked, *shocked* that people would associate any kind of toxicity with the Bunch of Jerks.
Yeah they skewed this data
We have some shit ass Twitter fans that are so loud and make us look bad.
Based on the last two playoffs alone I can tell you that New York Islanders fans being the 2nd warmest fanbase is bullshit
I guarantee you that this is because of how out of pocket our social media team occasionally gets. The “cry” shirts were the mail in the coffin.
Looks like they asked everyone exclusively in Florida
To be fair…. A huge chunk of our base wears Rags jerseys 2 games a year
I think it’s a lot of other teams’ fanbases dogpiling us because…I don’t know. Recency bias?
This is one of the most idiotic sports surveys I have ever seen. Canes fans are loud as hell but aggressive doesn’t describe it for me. Now Boston and Montreal fans I’ve seen I would actually call Aggressive!!
Ah yes, famously middle-of-the-road, completely average and normal fanbase Toronto.
Florida fans should be topping this list 100%
Ottowa-like typing detected
The capitol fans are some of the biggest a-holes I’ve encountered in the nhl
>to rank the NHL fan basses accordingly, we utilized a weighted scale to assess each fan bases’ sportsmanship behaviors: frequency of booing, cheering for injuries, engaging in poor behaviors, trash talking, lack of empathy of the opponent’s loss, or physical fights frequency.
the fact that the *Blackhawks* win it shows it’s massively skewed. aint no way the Isles, Caps, and GK are in the bottom 5. especially if fan fights are a major part of it, only fan fights in PNC this year were Rags fans and Bums fans attacking Carolina fans
Ahh, I see they utilized the “Let me pull something out of my ass” method…..
Boston boos their own team. How are we colder than them lol
Clearly there’s 1-2 heavily weighted items that are scored colder that 5 fan bases hot some critical limit on.
I’ve been to a few games at TD Garden and many games at PNC……those Boston fans are savage.
Sharks fans are the most hospitable and agreeable folks in the nhl and you can’t change my mind
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This shouldn’t be based off user surveys. It should be based off negative comments in social media. That would give a better picture of what everyone experiences IMO.
The only thing this measures is which fans catch the most shit
I would say most of this is dictated by online interactions – not so much “at the stadium” interactions. And based on that context? I would agree with this list to be fair.