HockeyBuzz Hotstove: Best rivalry in the NHL?

With the flip flopping of Julien, it's too bad the B's and Habs don't have another game this season. I think that coaching move will definitely inject some emotion back into the best rivalry in hockey.

HockeyBuzz Hotstove: Best rivalry in the NHL?
- ToddCordellVAN

Whichever manufactured rivalry NBCSN is trying to push on us this week is my favorite.

I think I get more excited for Penguins v Blue Jackets games than any other.

Penguins-Blue Jackets as the NHL's best rivalry? Seriously. GTFO

thrashers and coyotes obvs.

Gay. Habs-bruins is the best in the league bar none. These guys must work for NBC

Jero and Sucking it

The NHL should try getting a team in Milwaukee and the rivalry they'll have with the Wild would be great.

Penguins-Blue Jackets as the NHL's best rivalry? Seriously. GTFO
- DeflatedPucks

He has a different opinion than you? How dare he?


Teams that haven't done much don't typically have huge rivalries. So if you're a fan of one of them you pick a big team near you to hate and get excited for it. I would know, I'm a Wild and Vikings fan.

I don't even think the Pittsburgh would consider the Blue Jackets their #1 rival, no less the biggest rivalry in the sport.

Rangers have knocked them out of playoffs 2 out of last 3 years. I am sure they consider them a pretty big rival.

Gay. Habs-bruins is the best in the league bar none. These guys must work for NBC
- maxbart5

It is up there I'd go with that. Flyers/Pens flaming out for the time being only due to the flyers sucktitude. Hopefully it turns around. CBJ needs to do something in the postseason to be considered a rival to anyone. Sharks/kings is a good one

Best rivalry?

Leafs fans... And their bi-polar nature.

Pete Tessier vs Giving a straight answer.

It's definitely the Blue Jackets right now. The Flyers will always be up there, but the Pens and Jackets having been going back and forth all season, and could meet in the playoffs. And there's this guy...

It's definitely the Blue Jackets right now. The Flyers will always be up there, but the Pens and Jackets having been going back and forth all season, and could meet in the playoffs.
- TheRollingPuck

so rivalries change on a season to season basis? There needs to be a playoff history....period

Since when is Columbus vs Pittsburgh a rivalry?

kings/sharks is pretty good

I don't get to watch much west coast hockey, but the Ducks-Preds series last year was some extremely entertaining hockey

Ottawa vs Montreal and Ottawa vs Toronto are pretty fun rivalry!
Two years from now when the leafs will be all grown up it will be even more interesting !! And two years from now Habs and there 3man team will be long gone so no need to talk about this one lol

Ottawa vs Montreal and Ottawa vs Toronto are pretty fun rivalry!
Two years from now when the leafs will be all grown up it will be even more interesting !! And two years from now Habs and there 3man team will be long gone so no need to talk about this one lol
- ShaneP22

I loved the old sens/leafs rivalry, it died off over the years, but I agree that it should be back soon.

Toronto vs the leafs.

Garth vs Proofreading

so rivalries change on a season to season basis? There needs to be a playoff history....period
- Just5

They met in 2014, and games have been contentious since then.

As for the Flyers... they're still rivals with the Pens, and always will be - obviously. However, PIT/CBJ games have been more heated than PIT/PHI games this season. If we're talking overall, then PIT/PHI without a doubt.

Coyotes and Avalanche, if you ask Tanner.

Seriously? This might be the most ridiculous hotstove ever, and Tanner didn't contribute, how is that possible? I mean, biggest rivalry in the NHL question, and they can't even come up with opponents who are clealy each other's biggest rivals?