Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
It's much more interesting with a 2 team environment. I love it, I love having Raider fans and 49er fans and that being all there is, it just makes things more itneresting because otherwise it's boring. Especially when people like teams not from the area, I know more Laker fans then Warrior fans probably. Not the case with the Sharks because the only people who care about hockey at all are Sharks fans here.
Toronto already has 29 different teams worth of rival fans who hate them. Ask a fan of any of the other Canadian teams what they think of the Leafs. They don't need another team in their region to have that kind of atmosphere. There are also Leafs fans in every Canadian city, so any Leaf games in other cities have that same atmosphere as well. There are always a fair number of people at Vancouver-Toronto games wearing Leafs jerseys and reveling in the abuse that is heaped upon them.