[Hat-Trick]

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[rwilson99]

One of the top multi-sport rivalries of the last ten years...

Tampa v. Philly

Bucs/Eagles
Bolts/Flyers

Good stuff.

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for the ping, Hat-Trick. Just as I was getting ready for bed!

And of course, there's the almost instinctive hostility between fans of the New York Islanders and the Blueshirts from Manhattan.

My sense is that the Rangers-Devils rivalry has surpassed the Rangers-Islanders rivalry as the most intense in the New York area, mainly because the Islanders haven't been a serious contender in almost 20 years and the Rangers and Devils combined to win four Stanley Cups from 1994-2003 (and faced each other in the playoffs a number of times in the early 1990s -- including the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals that may go down as the greatest playoff series of all time).

[Dan from Michigan]

Wings vs Avalanche is number one in recent times. Same conference, both elite teams, and Claude LeFraud's cheap shot on Draper.

Can't go wrong with the Original Six either. Detroit/Chicago was huge for years and years, although the Blackhawks have fallen on hard times. Every Wings fan knew who Doug Wilson, the Sutters, Chelios(now a Wing), Savard, and Jeremy Roenick were. Toronto/Detroit is always a war. Wendel Clark was as well known here as in Toronto.

Toronto/Montreal is legendary.