Tuesday
Sep182007
Poll: Oilers vs Blues
Tuesday · Sep 18 · 2007 | 1:37 AM PDT |  | |
OILERS | BLUES |
Place your vote and then feel free to leave a comment as to how you came to your decision. Tell all your friends to drop in and vote! The more voices heard, the more accurate the results!
| Poll opening date Sep 18 @ 4:37 AM | Poll closing date Sep 25 @ 11:59 PM |
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Reader Comments (37)
Over 10,000 votes for St Louis? Hmm, seems a bit suspect to me.
Let's see... Alberta has a population of about 3.5 million people. Missouri has a population of about 6 million people. Edmonton is still within 1,000 votes of St. Louis? That does seem pretty suspect to me!!!!!
Hopefully this year the Blues will do as well as their logo has.
In responce to lotsa of Blues fans, I will also post the reason why Oilers have lots of fans:
After the WHA disintegrated, Oilers became 1 of only 2 canadian teams west of Ontario making them the geographical favorite team for the likes of BC and Alberta while Manitoba owned the Jets. Saskatchewan was a swing vote, and many western fans stuck to their guns and continued to cheer for the likes of Montreal or Toronto. Edmonton did the only thing possible to win over a market as difficult to penetrate, and as polarized as hockey in Canada... They won. And they won a lot. Saskatchewan's home team became the Oilers and with such an impressive track record right out of the gate, we started to obtain hockey fans from far and wide to Oil Country to cheer for our beloved oilers.
14 years later, interest dwindled, when radio announcers posed the question "Should the NHLPA submit to the demands of the owners?" Their was very underwhelming interest with most people either not caring, in favor of the cap, or simply wanted to see if the world would end if there was no hockey in canada for a year.
BIG STORY! Underdog calgary makes the cup finals! Canada's team! (I was completely disgusted with the amount of calgary support in Edmonton, but that's just me) Canadian interest in general was sparked. They remembered - Lord Stanley's Cup. When Oilers made a near identical run to the Flames the following year, the candian fans who were teased with Lord Stanley the previous year put even more faith into the 5-time-veteran cup winners, Oilers. Faith was restored briefly for a moment before being crushed by a dismal game 7 and the face of the franchise abandoning the team he near carried to the finals.
We are left dreaming of the past just like we did for the 15 years previously. Hockey at an all time high with blossoming superstars arising from the Pitsburgh Penguins. And the world is at peace.
Let's see... Alberta has a population of about 3.5 million people. Missouri has a population of about 6 million people. Edmonton is still within 1,000 votes of St. Louis? That does seem pretty suspect to me!!!!!
LOL, what seems suspect to me is how there's little support throughout the entire time for the Blues, but now there's more when they're going against the Oilers.
If anything, I'd say other teams fans are voting for the Blues because they don't want to see the Oilers vs Canadiens in the final.
They're not voting for the better logo, they're voting because hatred runs deep. They're mad cause they haven't been as successful as the Oilers.
Heroics - you are probably right. If the Blues win this logo contest the only reason they win is not because they have the better logo, but because everyone has been voting AGAINST the other teams. So it isn't a "who has the better logo" contest, it is more of a "vote against the team you hate the most" contest! =)
Ridiculous!!!
So if the Canadians beat the Blues in the final round... can I say "the only reason their logo won is because all the other teams in the league hate the Blues and were voting AGAINST the blues instead of for the Canadian's logo"??? God knows people will be using that as an excuse if it is the other way around.
MAN! Those pro Edmonton sure are moody! While most have clearly posted on the merits of the logos & their respective qualities, those ringing the bell for the Oiler's logo make me feel like I'm watching Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory. Skeptical bunch those Canadians. Whats that all aboot?
Either way the entire tournament was a joke.
Most of you bring history into this shit like it actually matters. It's a poll towards which one looks best, some of you need to catch up on your reading comprehension.
Then again, certain people have beef with words in a logo so I can see why they aren't up to date on big words like comprehension.
Regardless, two ugly logos go into the final. There's much better logos from both conferences, but homers had to ruin it and pick based off history.
Lol, this is about the only time St Louis isn't singing the Blues.
Hell, I wouldn't doubt if this is the only place those bums can win anything.
Ooohhhh, burn by Heroics... he called us homers. hehe First his favorite logo didn't win because every other team in the league wasn't voting for their favorite but were instead voting AGAINST his favorite. Now his favorite logo didn't win because all the "homers" were voting for their home team instead of the one true best logo (his favorite logo).
What is next Heroics? Was the poll rigged?
You guys have to be kidding me. You Oiler fans actually think that your logo should win. Then you cry fowl that people should vote for the best logo, and believe it or not, the best logo is winning right now. Funny you say that the only place the Blues could win is here, you edmontonians need to take a look back at the standings last year.
better logo SHOULD win. and by that I mean the Blue note.
Not to sound cynical, but I'm surprised our Blue Note got this far. I love the BlueNote, and I believe it's the best, but I didn't think enough other people would.
I hope this doesn't turn into a USA vs. Canada duel with Vancouver.
Vancouver's tough, but no matter who wins I'm glad we won the west.
Go Blues (and their logo)!
OK, I'll admit it, I'm a homer. I live in St. Louis, I follow the Blues, and I'll vote for the Blue Note.
However, I must also say that I like the Oiler's logo, aesthetically- (Ooh, Heroic, there's a big word for you!) and I respect their hockey history a ton.
It's round, like a puck, it puts a nice spin on the Oil Drop and the subtle space lines between the letters reflecting, um, reflection, as you might see on a shimmering pool of oil. I get it, and I like it. But in all honesty, I still just prefer the Blue Note.
I HATE the Redwings, and mean HATE, but I still really like their logo. It just works.
Of course, as a homer, I just don't get it when someone doesn't root for my team. - Because that might mean that they are objectively picking the team for its hockey merits and rooting for it to win. They must think it's a better team, therefore it deserves to win, and they would only root for a winner. No loyalty necessary.
But as a homer, I will blindly and loyally follow my team and get angry when they don't play well, or trade my favorite player, or pull stupid management moves. And given any game situation, any game, any playoff, I will root for them to win regardless of whether they deserve it. Except here.
Sound like a contradiction? Not really. The core of St. Louis Blues fans is a tough, informed, generous group. When the team's management / ownership group, or the players themselves, show they are willing to fight and work hard to compete, the seats get filled. That is the kind of homerism that I'm willing to admit to. Go Blues.
So, while I do feel sorry for ALL Canadian teams, and the way the NHL has made it tough on them to compete, I also respect that Canadians have always hung in there for a sport I love. If not for those Canadian hockey fans, there would never have been enough support for hockey to keep the league around long enough for St. Louis to get a team in the 60s.
But since then, regardless of what all of you other markets think, the St. Louis Blues hockey fan has been as loyal to the sport as any homer could ever have hoped to have been. If fact, so loyal as to collectively object to poor ownership, poor management, poor play, until change occurs. It has always been that way, even though we haven't won a cup, we will band together and support our team when we believe it deserves it.
Here, however, I don't have to worry about my homerism. IF this were about Hockey History, I would vote for the Montreal Canadians, and yes, even the Oilers before the Blues. Edmonton has won 5 cups, and I respect that.
But here, Heroic, my sad, sad, sad, fellow hockey fan, here, it is about logo aesthetics, and frankly I don't think many other sports logos come close to the Note in that respect.
I heard an Veteran ESPN analyst say one evening that the St. Louis Blues Logo was the best logo in all of sports. He said it during an NFL game that he was doing. It is the singular time I've ever heard anyone outside of St. Louis mention the Note with such respect.
It almost made me cry.