#cuz yenno my opinion really matters lol

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i was bored today so i figured i’d make a tier list this my tier list for the 21-22 season!

i explain why every team is where they are under the cut for anyone who gives a shit lol

this is all for fun and my own opinion so pls don’t be offended

i’ll just start off at the bottom of the list with the eff you category:

leafs: i’m canadian and i’m just sick of canadian hockey media always talking about the leafs and auston mattews 

blues: binnington. need i say more?

vgk: i knew a bandwagon fan and he was so obnoxious about how good vgk was during their first season, just left a bad taste in my mouth. those gold helmets though? no thanks. i would like to go watch a game at t-mobile one day though.

onto the i don’t like you category:

bruins: 2011.

stars: no reason tbh, i just don’t like them lol

blackhawks: the kyle beach stuff and how they handled it

moving on... the i forget about you sometimes category:

coyotes: i only think about them when i’m looking into going to a canucks games because tickets to canucks vs coyotess tend to be inexpensive lol

canes: i don’t follow the eastern conference as much and don’t usually hear much about them in the media i follow also fuck tony d’angelo

cbj: i genuinely never hear about them lol i’ll definitely be following them more if they play nick blankenburg 

preds: i forgot about them when i did a name all the nhl teams quiz... they were the last one and i just couldn’t remember them lol

sabres: they’ve been so mediocre, i never hear about them. but now that they’ve signed owen, i have a better reason to go to the canucks vs sabres game again next season. i took my mom this season cuz tickets were cheap lol

sens: to me, they’re the least popular canadian team so i never hear about them. they do have lots of good young players there though 

rangers: i don’t really hear about the rangers very often tbh

okay so the you’re okay category is the biggest one. i’m indifferent on the teams in this category, i’d watch them if there isn’t a canucks or avs games on:

tbl: there’s a more personal explanation but essentially, this is my shitty ex’s favourite team. other than that, i cheered for tampa during the 2020 scf cuz i don’t like the stars lol

ducks: i love their young players now but i definitely didn’t like the team when they had both getzlaf and perry. with perry on tbl and getzlaf retiring at the end of this season, the ducks are probably gonna move up the list

red wings: i wouldn’t have cared about them during their rebuild but mo seider has been fun to watch 

wild: they would’ve been in the i forget about you category but they have tyson jost and flower now so i watch occasionally lol

panthers: would’ve been in the i forget about you category but they’ve been pretty good this season so i always hear about their comebacks 

caps: i don’t mind watching caps games, heard a lot about ovi moving up on the most goals record for a while

kings: i would like to give drew doughty for making ✨a team like that✨  a thing. they have both stech and edler and i love them both so they’re the only reason watch kings games

jets: i honestly enjoy watching most of the canadian teams, but pld is the only reason i care about the jets lol

kraken: hoping the PNW rivalry will heat up soon, it’s been lonely with the battle of alberta and the battle of california. they’re only like 2 hours away from vancouver so i’m hoping to go to a game in seattle soon. might go to the kraken game at the end of the month is matty is playing lol

oilers: i only watch their games to watch mcdavid and draisaitl tbh fuck them for signing kane though

devils: i actually followed them a lot more when they got cory schneider from the canucks cuz i was devastated when we traded him AND lu. the fact that the canucks never beat the devils for 8 seasons then finally beat them this season at the game i was at!! to be honest, i only really watch them because nico 🥰

isles: okay, to be honest, i find isles games boring, especially when they were playing defensive style hockey throughout the whole game. i’ve watched them a few times though when there’s no better games on 

pens: i don’t follow the pens very much but i have a friend that's a fan so i watch sometimes to have something to banter about like that 11 goal game vs detroit

sharks: i watch sharks games every now and then, but they’re never really on my radar. i’ll definitely follow them more once bords starts playing for them

on to the i like you category!! 2 of the teams are in the eastern conference so i don’t actually get the opportunity to watch them very often because time zones. their games are usually over or just about to end by the time i’m off work :(

flyers: i only really watch their games for carter hart if he’s not playing i dont watch lol i also had a PE teacher that’s a flyers fan so i saw this jersey very often. i also liked that one training camp series they released on youtube when AV was hired

habs: that 2021 stanley cup run by them really impressed me and i was definitely rooting for them against tampa! i love how the team has turned around since st. louis took over and caufield is playing so well under him! im hoping for a better season next year, the first half of this year has been a hard one to watch

flames: with all the vancouver flames/calgary canucks jokes, i was bound to watch the flames a lot when they signed both marky and tanev in 2020 then traded for toff this season! they’ve been pretty exciting to watch this season and i’m happy to see all the ex canucks thriving over there, especially marky because our defense was like swiss cheese in front of him

LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST, my faves 🥰

canucks: the team that started it all for me back during their 2011 stanley cup run. there isn’t much more of an explanation other than that they’re my hometown team. they’re the team that got me into hockey over a decade ago and will always be my number one. i’ve even been contemplating half season tickets because i love watching hockey live. if anyone has experience going to hockey games alone, please pm me to ease my anxiety about potentially doing that next season lol

avs: not sure why i started watching them at the beginning of the 19-20 season, but i did and they’ve been my second favourite team since. i even bought a jersey at the start of this season that i’ll get to wear once a season when the avs come to town lol funny story, i got the jersey as a blank and had jost added after as a birthday gift to myself, picked up the jersey like 2 weeks before jost was traded and i cried about it lol i try to watch as many avs games as i can but i’m usually still at work when they start but i usually catch the second half of second onward. hoping to travel to denver in the future to go to a game at ball