kickazz 5,459 Report post Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) 8 hours ago, xault said: There still legitimate rivals going on. Honestly, people need to get off the Det vs Col horse rivalry. You'll never see this again, in any sport. Comparing anything to it is silly. *PIT vs WSH, is a must watch game today. Even more so for the people that want goal scoring in this very topic. *CHI vs STL, more so when STL had Backes. *Almost any combo of SJS, LA, ANA are great rivals to watch. Many others, I'm not gonna list every single rival. I'll name a few of our very own rivals that were legitimate after the Det vs Col such as... *DET vs SJS, This is one of the few rivalries I would consider we lost. *DET vs ANA from 2007-2010+ this was a great rivalry *DET vs NSH, Weber slamming Z head into the boards didn't get your blood going? I could go on, but I didn't really want to hijack the topic. I hate the non-stop moaning (not just this topic) about how there no legit playoff rivalries or rivals anymore. People seem to think only dynasty vs dynasty can be a legitimate rivals. In my opinion, the main problem is we moved from the West, we lost a bunch of good rivals, which in hindsight I wish we didn't. I can honestly say I don't think we would of made the playoffs the last 2 years if we stayed and we would already be on a real rebuild. Hell maybe even had a chance at Matthews, the very least a few top 10 picks the last 2-3 seasons. But part of that's another story. I said legitamate playoff rivalries, not 2-3 games during the season. The only reason Washington/Pittsburgh are "rivals" is because of Ovie and Crosby are #1 picks, but even that rivalry died years ago in 2009 until just recently when they met in the playoffs last year and people tried to hype it back up. http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/117372/penguins-capitals-a-one-sided-rivalry-resumes Our closest rival now is probably Tampa since we met them 2 years in a row in the playoffs but even that one has been one sided thus far. Edited January 22, 2017 by kickazz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted January 22, 2017 Tampa is our new playoff rival for the time being. Their predecessors being San Jose, Anaheim, and Colorado. Toronto is our new divisional rival. Replacing Chicago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
