The Oil

I understand that a southern/warm weather city having a team do well in the NHL can only be good for the health of the sport of hockey, the only sport I'm die-hard about. I thought this when Tampa won the Stanley Cup a couple years ago and when Anaheim and Carolina made it to the finals in the recent past. I'm not as antagonistic towards the warm weather teams as a lot of hockey fans are.

However, I never understood the idea of rooting for the team that knocks your team out of the playoffs. "Hey, we lost, but at least we lost to the best team - the team that won it all. No shame there..." Maybe I'm too vengeful a person. I don't buy into it as a literal power, but I think the idea of karma is awesome. Come-uppances excite me. And while in the big picture it isn't really the case of anyone doing anything wrong to the point of "getting their just desserts" or "reaping what they sow" or any of that, from my perspective it is, and that's all I care about right now because my Buffalo Sabres are out of the playoffs.

Therefore, fuck the Carolina Hurricanes.

GO EDMONTON!!!