In what might be the most passionate market in the world, a city whose emotional well being has always been partially linked to its hockey team, fans in Edmonton have to the face the cold hard truth one more time. Edmonton fans versus Calgary fans. Their fans try to engage in playful trash talking with rival markets on Twitter and they are destroyed in seconds. Most of the people who were piling on Nicholson for piling on Rieder were piling on Rieder themselves just a few days earlier. And now the whole thing is becoming a powder keg, with fans just waiting for any chance to explode.

Source: National Post March 25, 2019 09:00 UTC