Canada's most hated team? Not the Canucks according to Angus Read

[rusty890]

Originally Posted by Zarpan

Yep, there are about 100k members on HFBoards. 18 million people watched Game 7 of last year's finals and each finals game was watched by an average of 11 million people. There are probably more hockey fans who may not have been interested in watching Vancouver vs. Boston too.

So HFBoards represents less than 1% of hockey fans, and regular posters probably represent a fraction of 1%. The ones that feel compelled to post how they dislike a certain team probably end up representing about 0.01% of hockey fans into total (but account for a significant number of posts), so it's easy to see how we can have a distorted view of what the average hockey fan thinks from reading these forums.

You are correct. The ones who feel the most hate are usually the ones who need to vent about it somewhere, frequently on this board. That can give people a distorted impression about which team(s) is or are actually the most hated in Canada.

My point in posting this survey is so that the posters on this board can see that what is reality on Hfboards is not necessarily the reality in the greater world. I just wish people could get past their confirmation bias and consider evidence that is contrary to their point of view.

[SpezDispenser]

Toronto/Montreal because of the fans. Toronto #1 without even looking at the article.

[Reign Nateo]

Originally Posted by swiftwin

Except most hockey fans I talk to (not on hfboards) hate the Canucks. Even radio personalities talk about how much they are hated. Heck, even the LA twitter incident last game shows it.

Its not just an hfboards thing.

Well most hockey fans I talk to don't hate them, and most raido personalities I hear don't express their hatred for them, so does that make it even?

The LA tweet was again pandering to the vocal minority. There are 1000s of Canucks fans/supporters accross Canada. Again just a vocal minority that sways opinions.

Proof is in the stats people. If you're a rabid fan of your team, you probably hate the Canucks, people are sheep, they follow crowds. If you have a casual interest in the sport, you likely don't hate them at all.

Hating another team in your sport is a very zealous endevour that the average Joe doesn't partake in. Its a waste of energy.

[rusty890]

Originally Posted by swiftwin

So the Sens never played the Canucks in the playoffs, and there hasn't really been any incidents in the reg. season (besides the door opening incident on Winchester).

When I said them I was talking about the Bruins facing the Sens in the playoffs.

[Espher]

Originally Posted by silvercanuck

The NHL has become like North American politics.

There are now three types of fans:

1. a small percentage that loudly cheer for team A and against team B

2. a small percentage that loudly cheer against team A and for team B

3. the majority that are apathetic or not very vocal

We only hear the loud people in the media and on the twitterverse and unfortunately its the negative and scandalous view that reverberates.

There's also category 4:

4. a significant percentage that loudly cheer against team A and profess little to no allegiance to another team.

This category fits people posting in the comments on cbc.ca news stories as well as people posting in the comments on tsn.ca.

[Zarpan]

Originally Posted by swiftwin

Except most hockey fans I talk to (not on hfboards) hate the Canucks. Even radio personalities talk about how much they are hated. Heck, even the LA twitter incident last game shows it.

Its not just an hfboards thing.

The advantage of large random samples is that they give us a more accurate picture of what people and fans in general actually think.

I'd say a random sample of 1,506 people is a better representation of things than the perhaps dozens of hockey fans that you or I know and/or talk to.

The people we talk to is a much smaller sample size and is also problematic since it is not likely to be a representative sample (due to selection bias, etc...).

[Zarpan]

The margin of error for that survey was +/- 2.5%. Since Angus Reid is an respectable polling organization, the survey results are probably reasonably reflective of the general population. 4% of respondents (and 9% of hockey fans) chose the Canucks as their most hated team. There's virtually no chance that more than say 8% of the general Canadian population and 15% of Canadian hockey fans would choose the Canucks as their most hated team.

It should be noted that some of the regional breakdowns involve small sample sizes (probably only 100 respondents from Manitoba/Saskatchewan for example), so 1% hating the Canucks and 4% hating the Oilers from Manitoba/Saskatchewan is not a statistically significant difference.

[Vsevolod Bobrov]

I dont know about the most hated team, but I know what fanbase there's the most fun to be had with

[Hardyvan123]

Originally Posted by rusty890

Angus Read polling firm says the leafs are Canada's most hated team.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/12/f...am-in-the-nhl/

I don't know if this thread already exists, if it does, then mods please delete.

Well they actually did the survey and the Canucks are hated by Albertans the most, probably due to Albertans golfing this time of the year instead of following their favorite teams.

Originally Posted by TheMicrowave

No it's the Canucks.

Originally Posted by Campoli2Burrows

National media is based in Toronto. They all have their favourite teams and Vancouver is not one of them.

These two responses are part of the ever growing paranoid Canuck nation which sadly is too often represented as the Canuck fan base but just happen to be the most loudest and vocal of all Canuck fans.

[GaryU]

What's the difference? Vancouver East or Toronto West...Probably the Canucks fans with the Conspiracy Theories..

[T-Funk]

Originally Posted by Hardyvan123

Well they actually did the survey and the Canucks are hated by Albertans the most, probably due to Albertans golfing this time of the year instead of following their favorite teams.

Couldn't have anything to do with comments like that could it?

[ThirdManIn]

We do not need "most hated" threads. They never lead to anything productive