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Originally Posted by Treesplease
Canada's team - The Canadiens. Back to the pre cable days and hockey night in Canada (with Canada's real national anthem) every saturday night with Canadiens games on CBC.
close second is the Oilers though.
As far a least favourite teams in descending order...
Team USA
Czechs
Russia
Calgary.
(I actually like Russia - they are our best international rivals and they respect the game)
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I would tend to agree on the Canadiens and the Oilers... though I'd add that the Penguins and Blackhawks have decent followings as well, though there is a segment of Leafs fans too.
All are of course secondary to the Riders, they've started to become a year-round entity in terms of news coverage. Definitely much less of an "off-season" than there used to be. Local news does a pretty good job at coverage of other local sports like the Rams, Pats, Cougars, and high school teams, too.
Now as for the original question... I'd say we have a decent amount of similarities with both, but do our own thing too... We're veering closer to Alberta mindsets lately due to resource wealth, but still have a lot of untouchable VERY non-Albertan institutions (the Crowns) + support for the NDP that Alberta has traditionally not had... Maybe one day the crowns will be sold... but so far, the big 4 (Saskpower, Sasktel, Saskenergy, and SGI) are pretty safe; we like to complain about them... but deep down, I think most realize that they are a huge financial positive (dividends to the government and stable jobs within the province) and are in general, provide much cheaper services than elsewhere.