Good Guys vs. Bad Guys

[elocomotive]

I want to see what team is considered to be a good guy team or bad guy team the most often, so here is the exercise...

Take the following list and divide the teams on the list into one of TWO categories - Good Guys or Bad Guys.
No neutral or third categories accepted, you have to make a choice on each. Each list does not have to be even, you could have 25 good guys and 7 bad guys if you want or make them even. I've put a full list you can copy/paste and move around.

Anaheim Ducks
Arizona Coyotes
Boston Bruins
Buffalo Sabres
Calgary Flames
Carolina Hurricanes
Chicago Blackhawks
Colorado Avalanche
Columbus Blue Jackets
Dallas Stars
Detroit Red Wings
Edmonton Oilers
Florida Panthers
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens
Nashville Predators
New Jersey Devils
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Ottawa Senators
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
San Jose Sharks
Seattle Kraken
St. Louis Blues
Tampa Bay Lightning
Toronto Maple Leafs
Vancouver Canucks
Vegas Golden Knights
Washington Capitals
Winnipeg Jets


When people are done, I'll tabulate everyone's results and we'll have a SportsHoopla Good Guy Index for every NHL team and rank them.

 

[elocomotive]

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BAD GUY TEAM
Anaheim Ducks
Boston Bruins
Carolina Hurricanes
Chicago Blackhawks
Dallas Stars
Edmonton Oilers
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota Wild
New Jersey Devils
New York Rangers
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Tampa Bay Lightning
Toronto Maple Leafs
Vegas Golden Knights
Winnipeg Jets

GOOD GUY TEAM
Arizona Coyotes
Buffalo Sabres
Calgary Flames
Colorado Avalanche
Columbus Blue Jackets
Detroit Red Wings
Florida Panthers
Montreal Canadiens
Nashville Predators
New York Islanders
Ottawa Senators
San Jose Sharks
Seattle Kraken
St. Louis Blues
Vancouver Canucks
Washington Capitals


Mine came out pretty even, kinda surprised and was interesting to see my gut reaction in a few cases. Like I don't dislike Toronto, but because I really like Montreal, I felt compelled to put them on the other side.

 

[dash]

Anaheim Ducks - Bad Guys
Arizona Coyotes - Bad Guys
Boston Bruins - Good Guys
Buffalo Sabres - Good Guys
Calgary Flames - Good Guys
Carolina Hurricanes - Bunch of Jerks
Chicago Blackhawks - Bad Guys
Colorado Avalanche - Bad Guys
Columbus Blue Jackets - Good Guys
Dallas Stars - Bad Guys
Detroit Red Wings - Bad Guys
Edmonton Oilers - Bad Guys
Florida Panthers - Bad Guys
Los Angeles Kings - Bad Guys
Minnesota Wild - Bad Guys
Montreal Canadiens - Bad Guys
Nashville Predators - Good Guys
New Jersey Devils - Bad Guys
New York Islanders - Good Guys
New York Rangers - Bad Guys
Ottawa Senators - Good Guys
Philadelphia Flyers - Good Guys
Pittsburgh Penguins - Bad Guys
San Jose Sharks - Good Guys
Seattle Kraken - Good Guys
St. Louis Blues - Bad Guys
Tampa Bay Lightning - Bad Guys
Toronto Maple Leafs - Bad Guys
Vancouver Canucks - Good Guys
Vegas Golden Knights - Bad Guys
Washington Capitals - Bad Guys
Winnipeg Jets - Good Guys

 

[sbb122]

Anaheim Ducks- BG
Arizona Coyotes- GG
Boston Bruins- BG
Buffalo Sabres- GG
Calgary Flames -BG
Carolina Hurricanes -GG
Chicago Blackhawks -BG
Colorado Avalanche -GG
Columbus Blue Jackets- GG
Dallas Stars -GG
Detroit Red Wings -GG
Edmonton Oilers -GG
Florida Panthers -GG
Los Angeles Kings - GG
Minnesota Wild - GG
Montreal Canadiens -GG
Nashville Predators -GG
New Jersey Devils - GG
New York Islanders -BG
New York Rangers -GG
Ottawa Senators -GG
Philadelphia Flyers - BG
Pittsburgh Penguins -GG
San Jose Sharks -GG
Seattle Kraken -GG
St. Louis Blues -GG
Tampa Bay Lightning -BG
Toronto Maple Leafs -GG
Vancouver Canucks -GG
Vegas Golden Knights- BG
Washington Capitals -BG
Winnipeg Jets-BG

 

[elocomotive]

Washington Capitals - Bad Guys

 

[dash]

I'm jealous of their success lol

 

[elocomotive]

I'm jealous of their success lol

My actual chain of thoughts in my head...

'Damn, Dash, that's fucking cold.... oh....
...
... Tommy."

 

[forty_three]

Anaheim Ducks - Bad Guys
Arizona Coyotes - Bad Guys
Boston Bruins - Bad Guys
Buffalo Sabres - Good Guys
Calgary Flames - Good Guys
Carolina Hurricanes - Good Guys
Chicago Blackhawks - Bad, bad guys
Colorado Avalanche - Good guys
Columbus Blue Jackets - Good Guys (and Zac Rinaldo)
Dallas Stars - Good Guys
Detroit Red Wings - Good Guys
Edmonton Oilers - Bad Guys
Florida Panthers - Good Guys
Los Angeles Kings - Good Guys
Minnesota Wild - Good Guys
Montreal Canadiens - Good Guys
Nashville Predators - Good Guys
New Jersey Devils - Good Guys
New York Islanders - Good Guys
New York Rangers - Bad Guys
Ottawa Senators - Good guys, until you get to management
Philadelphia Flyers - Bad guys
Pittsburgh Penguins - The worst guys
San Jose Sharks - Bad Guys
Seattle Kraken - meh
St. Louis Blues - Good guys
Tampa Bay Lightning - BAD GUYS
Toronto Maple Leafs - Bad guys
Vancouver Canucks - Good Guys
Vegas Golden Knights - Bad Guys
Washington Capitals - Good guys, bar one
Winnipeg Jets - Bad Guys (treated my boy Patty like shit)

 

[dash]

As I have said before, if the Caps ever made Tom Wilson available, there would be 31 teams vying for his services. He's probably the 4th most important player on that team after OV, Backstrom, and Carlson. He just needs to rein in the dirty hits is all.

 

[esls79]

They’re all bad in my book. But I cheer for the zebras.

If I had to chose a good team, I’d go with whatever team Corey Perry plays for.

 

[elocomotive]

I find this fascinating so far. Very curious to see the overall results and account for things like Cup wins and other factors that influence the results.

Clearly there are social factors in play here. For example, we have many a well-liked Vancouver fan on here and I expect that our good impressions of the those Canuck fans will lead us to see the team they cheer for as good guys. Although you could say the same for Pens - many liked fans on here, and yet the opposite impression. So clearly the Cup wins (seeing the Canucks as the downtrodden and the Pens as the privileged likely is a factor).

I might do a whole data viz thing on this if we get lots of results. Keep 'em coming...

 

[puckhead]

caveat - i haven't seen many american teams in a long time

Good
Buffalo Sabres
Carolina Hurricanes
Colorado Avalanche
Columbus Blue Jackets
Florida Panthers
Nashville Predators
New Jersey Devils
New York Islanders
Ottawa Senators
San Jose Sharks
Seattle Kraken
Vancouver Canucks
Washington Capitals
Winnipeg Jets


Bad
Anaheim Ducks
Arizona Coyotes
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks
Calgary Flames
Dallas Stars
Detroit Red Wings
Edmonton Oilers
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens <- very recently changed
New York Rangers
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
St. Louis Blues
Tampa Bay Lightning <- cap related. i like the team
Toronto Maple Leafs
Vegas Golden Knights


Ugly
Mike Ricci

 

[thedddd]

Anaheim Ducks - good
Buffalo Sabres - good
Calgary Flames - good
Colorado Avalanche - good
Dallas Stars - fuck em but good
Detroit Red Wings - good
Florida Panthers - good
Minnesota Wild - good
Montreal Canadiens - good
Ottawa Senators - good
Pittsburgh Penguins - the most awesome bestest of all time.
Seattle Kraken - good
St. Louis Blues - good
Vancouver Canucks - good
Winnipeg Jets - good

Arizona Coyotes - bad
Boston Bruins - bad
Carolina Hurricanes - bad
Chicago Blackhawks - bad
Columbus Blue Jackets - bad
Edmonton Oilers - bad
Los Angeles Kings - bad
Nashville Predators - bad
New Jersey Devils - bad
New York Islanders - bad
New York Rangers - bad
Philadelphia Flyers - bad
San Jose Sharks - bad
Tampa Bay Lightning - bad
Toronto Maple Leafs - bad
Vegas Golden Knights - bad
Washington Capitals - bad

And to all the other metro teams:

 

[mooger_35]

Canucks are doing something right (or maybe wrong) as they would have been on everyone's bad guy list back in the Burrows / Kesler years.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Canucks are doing something right (or maybe wrong) as they would have been on everyone's bad guy list back in the Burrows / Kesler years.

We are moving into the Burroughs years now so everybody is probably sad for us

 

[dash]

Canucks are doing something right (or maybe wrong) as they would have been on everyone's bad guy list back in the Burrows / Kesler years.

Burrows
Kesler
Lapierre
Bieksa
Torres
Kassian

Yeah, quite the motley crew back in 2011-12

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Burrows
Kesler
Lapierre
Bieksa
Torres
Kassian

Yeah, quite the motley crew back in 2011-12

its a mottely crew now

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Anaheim Ducks - GG
Arizona Coyotes - GG
Boston Bruins - SATAN
Buffalo Sabres - GG
Calgary Flames - BG
Carolina Hurricanes - GG
Chicago Blackhawks - GG
Colorado Avalanche - GG
Columbus Blue Jackets - GG
Dallas Stars - GG
Detroit Red Wings - GG
Edmonton Oilers - GG
Florida Panthers - GG
Los Angeles Kings - GG
Minnesota Wild - GG
Montreal Canadiens - GG
Nashville Predators - GG
New Jersey Devils - GG
New York Islanders - GG
New York Rangers - BG
Ottawa Senators - GG
Philadelphia Flyers - GG
Pittsburgh Penguins - GG
San Jose Sharks - GG
Seattle Kraken - GG
St. Louis Blues - GG
Tampa Bay Lightning - BG
Toronto Maple Leafs - BG
Vancouver Canucks - GG
Vegas Golden Knights - GG
Washington Capitals - BG
Winnipeg Jets - BG

Basically, if your team doesn't have a shitstain on its roster I don't find any issue with them. May have missed a few shitstains I suppose.

 

[thedddd]

It was hard to swallow putting the Habs on the good list. They almost made the bad list with the Leafs, but honestly I am rooting for ANY Canadian team to win the Cup.

 

[elocomotive]

Toronto Maple Leafs - BG

Lmfao! This cracked me up to no end.