When did you become a fan of your team? (Read On)?

Question

The year you became a fan of your favorite team, were they good? Did they just win the Stanley Cup, or make the playoffs, or had the worst record in the NHL, etc.

Answer 1

Pens, in 1996, I would say I truly became a fan.......I refused to miss a game unless absolutely necessary after that season.....I was 4 years old and hooked !!....my brother was a big influence on my sports fandom too....I remember we lost to Florida in the Conference Finals..........the rat season. Bad season to first watch hockey for a Pens fan!! lol Kasparaitis was my hero, and of course Jagr and "Lemoo"

d**n rats.

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Answer 2

I first became a true fan after my first game, the flames were ok then, but they beat the oilers!!!  I had watched them before, but i wasnt as obssesed as when i went to my first game.  i remember watching us winning the cup(i was 5) so i really wasnt obsessed.

Answer 3

I don't recall ever not being a Leaf fan. I believe it was genetically implanted. Since I'm as old as dirt, they must have been pretty good at the time. None of those 13 cups have come recently.

Answer 4

Was 13 years old,a sports nut but knew nothing of hockey, my dad got transferred to Chicago in April 1968, when driving to Chicago we happened on WMAQ Radio in Chicago during a Black_hawk game, Loydd Petit  doing the call. When the Hawks scored, sounded like the building was gonna fall down, I had to check that out, with=in a week I was hooked on the Hawks and Hockey for life!!

Answer 5

I became a Wild fan during the 2006-2007 season, and they were doing good. But they were knocked out of the playoffs in the first round.

Answer 6

I as pretty much born into it, in Boston you are born into becoming a fan. But the year I became a BIG fan, they were about as good as they are now, same result a loss to the Habs in the first round.

Answer 7

When I became a fan of the Wings, it was at the tail-end of the Dead Wings era (which should explain the state of the Wings at the time).

Answer 8

Leafs- I was born a leafs fan

Stars- I always like them but they become way high up there when they got Richards at the deadline.

Answer 9

I got hooked on the Sharks when they made it all the way to the third round against the Flames. I remember following that post season pretty closely and I've been hooked ever since. And I must say that the Boyle, Blake, and Lukowich additions are fantastic.

Answer 10

i became a fan of the san jose sharks in 2002. the sharks won the division that year so i guess they were decent but i started watching it towards the tail end of the regular season. they made it to the playoffs that year. then i started becoming a die-hard sharks fan during the 2003-2004 season. so thats pretty much it!! i blame my grandma to this day, she's the one that got me hooked on hockey. (:

Answer 11

I had only seen the Iguanas and Dragons in San Antonio for a couple of games before I moved to Dallas in December of 96. I went to my first Stars game in January where they beat the Kings 7-2. After feeling the atmosphere in Reunion Arena and seeing the pace and grit to the game, I was hooked.

So I guess I picked a good time to discover hockey because 2 years later they won the Cup.

Answer 12

When I became a leafs fan... they made the playoffs but nothing more than that they were like average but i live and was born in T.O so I ,ve been watching them since i was like a baby! so ig uess you could say i have always been a leafs fan!

Answer 13

when i became a leafs fan...at least they made the playoffs. although they never made it far. now, a few short years later, look where we are

Answer 14

Don't remember my dad and uncle took me to a game when i was three and I fell in love with the team and the game.

Answer 15

I became an Islanders fan in 1974. They hadn't made the playoffs yet, but were improving. My best friend and I decided we would be the only Islanders fans on the block.  Plus, living in Queens made it easier to go to games than trekking into Manhattan.

We still talk, and he is still an Islanders fan living in San Diego.

Answer 16

i grew up in a home where my dad was (and still is) a die-hard Kings fan...i started liking the Sharks when i saw my first Sharks game on t.v. when i was about 8...i don't remember how good they were but i do remember that i started liking that team that day...so, i didn't grow up a Kings fan, to my dad's dismay

Answer 17

I don't really know why I became a Habs fan!

my dad was Leafs fan!

I grew up around all stuff about the Leafs!

but I was a Habs fan for as long as a remember!

I'll stick threw them threw thick and thin!

Answer 18

I grew up on the East Coast in a house where a Rangers game was on every night they were broadcast... but now that I'm in Columbus, I became a CBJ fan... and my patience is wearing thin... but I've hung in there for 8 years... what's another year?

(However with Z and Fritsche playing for the Rangers, I feel a need to keep an eye on my classic fave team).

Answer 19

i became a ranger fan in the late 90's when i was like 8 or 9 (though before that i always concidered myself one but i was too young to watch games and stuff)  when they sucked. they never would make the playoffs but me and my dad would watch them any way and were happy when they won the games they did. they hadn't made the playoffs in years and could have had one of the worst records in the nhl. My dad was a die hard rangers fan and i became one too even if they were always loosing. i stuck with the rangers through thick and thin. i can't wait until i see the rangers win the cup. i was to young to remember 94

Answer 20

They were good........Lemieux won the Art Ross that year (1996-1997 season), but we weren't great......we got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs I believe.

They weren't great but....they weren't bad.

Answer 21

well i was just flipping through the channels one night, around 5 years ago, and there was a hockey game.

my family was never too big on hockey so i never really paid attention, but my friends talked about it so i decided to watch a bit.

and i got really into it..it was the year the leafs were playing the sens for the last playoff spot or something like that and leafs won.

and since then, i fell in love with the game..it's a game with such passion and there's no turning back now.

i'm hooked for life.

and i live in toronto, so yeah.

and i love the penguins as well, and no, it's not because of crosby, though he is a huge part.

i love every single player on that team, sometimes even more than the players of toronto and they are overall such a talented and entertaining team.

Answer 22

i dont really remeber, i just was born into a hockey loving/ caps loving family so since the earliest i remember i've been a cap fan.  I used to go to games at the old caps centre.  They made the playoffs a lot bt i think i was a curse becuase the year i was born they had a 3-1 playoff series lead vs the pens and they dropped it and lost

Answer 23

When I was growing up... my friend/neighbor was a Rangers fan, so I went to a few games with him and since then considered myself a Rangers fan.  It was the early 90's... probably a season or two before they won the president's trophy in 92.

Then, I actually wound up not really following sports for awhile... so I didn't really pay attention during 1994.  If someone asked, I would consider myself a Rangers fan, but I didn't really follow the team or the sport.

When I got to college, my friend (now my best friend) was a HUUUUUUGE sports guy... biggest, most obnoxious yankee fan you'll ever meet (he got a callback for the show where a few fans travel around with the Yankees, but decided he couldnt take a year off to watch baseball so he didn't accept it).  he followed all sports except for hockey.  But, since I guess subconsciously I wanted a passion like he had, I got into hockey.  Since I had always considered myself a Rangers fan, and I was from LI, it was only natural I went back to the Rangers.  This was during their 7 year playoff drought.  (subsequently, i got HIM into hockey, so he's a huge rangers fan too).  I've been a huge, hardcore fan ever since.

Answer 24

I've been a Lightning fan since about 2002, when I started paying attention to sports. We were on the up, but by no means the Stanley Cup winning team they became 2 years later. I started following them more and more over that first and second season, and by the time they hit the Stanley Cup finals, I had a group of friends who put blue and white ribbon on our graduation tassels, because we graduated high school the night of Game 1.

Despite the gradual decline since then, I've stayed loyal, even after three years at school in Rhode Island (where I REFUSED to root for the Bruins, I might add), even going to see them in Boston when they traveled.

They're my team, and will continue to be, even in the face of change. (Though OK Hockey is making that hard for me right now...)

Answer 25

When the Red Wings were in the playoffs in 1991 and lost to the Blues in seven.  I remember watching earlier than that because I remember Jacques Demers being coach and 1991 was with Brian Murray. . . But that is the first I remember being really concerned about the outcome. . . I was 11.  When I was 7, 8, 9, and 10, I was a semi-fairweather fan as they lost in the finals in 87, won in 88 and 89, and went to the conference finals in 90. . . I lost interest when I started loving hockey.  

Nearly 20 years later, I still love the Wings. . . Wins and losses, playoff flops in the first round, etc. . . I love it all.

Answer 26

I became a fan of the Columbus Blue Jackets when they came to Columbus in 2000.  I was happy to have a more local NHL team to watch, and I have since really gotten into the sport of Hockey.  It's also nice having a team so close that you can get tickets to watch the talent from all the other NHL teams around.

All Jackets fans are still waiting for the Playoffs/ Stanley Cup.  I guess this would qualify them as the worst team in the NHL when they became my favorite.

Answer 27

i became a fan the lock out season...

ha NAAAHHH!

I've always been a hockey fan and growing up in canada and rooting on the north stars instead of the leafs..i had to fend for myself!

i never follow the whole banwagoner thing. so when i moved down to minnesota it just happen to be the year the wild franchise started so i just happen to get tiks to the very first game EVER! and since then i have been hooked on the mn wild....even when we sucked! :)

I dont know what minnesota has over me but i always seem to be a fan of there hockey instead of my home town's team and my WHOLE family are leafs fans and i 've always loved the north stars and even when they wasnt a team in minny i never rooted for another team! it was so fun this year crackin jokes at my family because they had season tickets to the leafs games and well you know they SUCK .  but when minnesota got kicked outta the playoffs i got a mouth full from them! haha but yeah i'm a die hard wild fan!

Answer 28

As a New Yorker, I became a Ranger fan right when the Islanders were embarking on their dynasty run.

I've always been a fan of the underdog, so it was a no-brainer which team I would support and which one I'd despise with every bone in my body. hehe

Today, I still like to see the Rangers do well, but I've become much more appreciative of the individual talents around the league.

Answer 29

My first team I became a fan of was the Red Wings. My Grandpa used to watch them. I would watch with him. Seeing as I grew up in Florida from the age of 5, I had only the TV and Grandpa to go by with hockey. When the Panthers finally came into being I was a fan from day one. They were OK the first season. For an expansion team they did very well . Like most fans of hockey down here we were just grateful to have a team of our own to cheer for. The Panthers are now my first team as they are my home team. I still care about the Wings because they were my first team

Answer 30

I've always been a fan on my hometown teams though I do not watch them all (Jays, Argos). Even before I started watching hockey, if the Leafs were playing I would (obviously) want them to win.

I have three older guy cousins, they were our only cousins for a few years and they were all huge Leaf fans as well. So the Leafs were always something that was there but I was never really a fan of hockey, I used to find it boring.

I gradually started becoming a hockey fan and a Leafs fan. The season before the lockout, I started watching when the Leafs were in the playoffs facing the Flyers because it was always on in my house. Then when the lockout happened I wondered what had happened to the NHL and I kind of missed it. When the lockout ended and the season started again, I watched the Leafs season opener but after that I kind of lost interest. I kept track of how the team was but I didn't watch the games.

In December my cousin went down to Pittsburgh for a Leafs game, and I watched parts of that game but then again I lost interest. So I kept track of the Leafs and would watch the games when they were on in my house but I still wasn't really a hockey fan or Leafs fan. I did however, want to go to the Leafs last game of the regular season because it was my birthday but my dad didn't see a point as the Leafs didn't look like they would make the playoffs (and they didn't). I watched that game at home though.

The next season I watched the home opener, watched some games here and there, but I didn't care if I missed a game. One game that really helped me become more of a Leafs fan was when Sundin scored his 500th goal. After that I started watching more and more games but I really became a fan after my parents went to India (February 2007). I had already told my brother and sister well in advance that I was taking over my parents room, so I always has somewhere to watch the games. Plus I missed my parents so watching the Leafs took my mind of that.

By the time my parents came back from India I had evolved from a casual Leafs fan to a die hard Leafs fan, and am still a diehard Leafs fan today.

The Leafs were neither a playoff bound team nor a basement team when I became a fan. They were/ are a team that struggles to make the playoffs.

Now my schedule revolves around the Leafs, I won't go places if a Leafs game is on and I know exactly what day the Leafs play on. My sister calls me obsessed, but I'm just like any other hockey fan on here.

I know my story was long, and some parts were boring, but you asked, and that was how I became a Leafs fan.

Having said that, GO LEAFS GO!

Answer 31

my favorite team is the Penguins. i was really young when i started loving hockey ( i was 7 or 8.) and my dad took me to my first hockey game i had no idea what the h*** was going on but i loved it. then i got into NHL hockey and the first team i watched on TV was the Penguins and i just fell in love with them. so i guess I've always loved the penguins. i didn't know how good they were what players they had who they played or anything but i just loved watching them play. that is until now i no just about everything thats going on, until the refs f*** something up!!