Red Wings vs. Penguins: Who Do You Loathe More?

From a marketing and PR standpoint, this is probably one of the best Stanley Cup Finals match ups that Gary Bettman and NHL HQ could have hoped for. You’ve got the face of the league and a hockey mad town (basically Buffalo but with past success) going up against one of the most dominant teams of the past decade, that just so happens to reside in a top 10 American market. It’s the Red Wings vs. the Penguins. It’s two teams you don’t like. One’s star player is Cindy Crosby the other is the Evil Empire. But hey, at least they’re not the Flyers, right? Whatever.

With all due respect to Kissing Suzy Kolber, let’s break this bad boy down.

Team

Pittsburgh Penguins — Detroit Red Wings

City

Pittsburgh, PA — Detroit, MI

Crappy Nickname

The Steel City — Hockeytown

Dump in Dire Need of Replacement

Mellon Arena — Joe Louis Arena

Most loathsome player

Do I even need to say it? — Name one.

Unlikely Star

Marc Andre Fleury — Johan Franzen

Most annoying characteristic

Fan base actually believes this isn’t rigged to favor Sidney — Have a goalie, but really don’t need one until Lidstrom retires

Most annoying form of smug

Mario Lemieux’s Smug — The smug that emanates from crowning yourself Hockeytown, USA.

Another reason to be annoyed by their city

The Pittsburgh Steelers and the terrible towel. Nuff’ said. — The Pistons’ death grip on the Eastern Conference.

OK, just name anything you don’t like about these places

The size of Ben Roethlisberger’s head — Did I mention that they call it Hockeytown?

Biggest mis characterization

Bitter, cling to guns and religion — Redneck town

Quickest way to piss off fanbase

Gary Roberts sucks — Wear Avs jersey

Line we’re all tired of hearing

WWGRD? — It’s the economy’s fault!

Reason to show a little sympathy

Almost lost their team to Hamilton, of all places — The Lions are really, really bad

So you understand what Pensblog is talking about the next day — Seeing them make the Finals is sort of routine, and you like routine_uacct = “UA-1868762-1”; urchinTracker();

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