Top 10 Most Hated NHL Teams

They've gone and accused teams like the Canucks and the Canadiens of dirty play and cheap behavior, yet are guilty of so much more of it. Then you've got a number of their fans, who always seem to be able to come out with some sort of convoluted, twisted way to defend their team's goons when they're caught cheap-shotting or injuring other players.

Every team has its share of objectionable conduct on the ice, but not only have the Bruins practiced an entire laundry list of it just within the past few seasons, they try to convince everyone that they play a clean, moral, respectable game. It's a shame that the talent is almost always overshadowed by some of the most hypocrisy, classlessness, and dirty play imaginable.

As not only a Caps fan but also an Ovi fan, I can admit Crosby is a good hockey player. His diving and crybaby behavior, however, are insane. The diving is just crazy, and he gets away with it because he's Crosby.

This team is the biggest joke in the league. After Mario left, this team was close to collapse. They couldn't win to save their lives, and their fan base basically abandoned them. The only thing that saved them was the bandwagoners who jumped on board after their up-and-coming players managed to win two cups. From then on, the only thing that has kept this team afloat is the league's constant praise of the biggest joke of a hockey player ever to put on a pair of skates. You all know him, you all hate him. It's Crybaby Crosby.

This guy probably holds more league-wide hatred than the team itself. He is the biggest diver ever to play in the league. He takes cheap shots left and right and doesn't get called on them because "he's Crosby." He loves to try and play the body and start drama on the ice but then cries when he gets hit. He's a joke, but all of his bandwagon fans will say, "oh, you just hate him because he's good." But anyone can be good if you dive and cry as much as this guy does. In short, this team is a laughingstock with the biggest joke of a player as their captain, plain and simple, a joke!

Flyers are the most dirty hockey team in the NHL. They play cheap shots, and their fans are just like the players. They are nuts.

Honestly, I think that Flyers should top the list and not the Penguins. The Penguins are hated not because they play dirty, but because people are jealous of them. But the Flyers never won the Stanley Cup in the last decade, so nobody is jealous of them.

24 Apr 2016.

Flyers down in the first round 3-2, fighting for their playoff life. As expected, 3 Flyer penalties in the first period. Two penalties put the Caps on a 5-3 power play. Cheap shot Wayne issues a dirty slash and forces the Flyers to spend the remainder of the period in their own zone. Way to go, Wayne!

The Capitals have lost their momentum and their game, but your cowardly, selfish, dirty play will push them to round 2. You are a disgrace to the league and an embarrassment to anything labeled as "professional."

It's more the fans and city than the team itself. Toronto thinks it's the center of the universe and everything it does is gold. Their fans are terrible and mocked survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing by making t-shirts that said "Toronto Stronger" (to counter "Boston Strong" in support of the survivors). Most recently, their fans started chanting in Vancouver during a moment of silence for Ted Lindsay, who had just passed away.

The Leafs are the most overrated team in the NHL by a mile. Just because Toronto is Canada's largest city doesn't make the Leafs Canada's team. Sportsnet and especially TSN seem to forget that there are actually more Canadian teams in the NHL other than the Leafs. Literally all people talk about are the Leafs and this really makes me want to throw up considering how terrible the Leafs are. Probably stupid Leafs fans don't even know who the Canucks or even the city of Vancouver are. They think Toronto IS Canada. That's why I hate the Maple Leafs more than any other NHL team.

The Montreal Canadiens should be way, way higher on this list than seventh. Are you kidding me? Never mind the fact that referees always seem to cater to their continuous whining. They also ignore the constant slashing, cross-checking, holding of the stick, falling down, instigating, and then refusing to answer the bell.

But then you have to listen to them talk about how much class and dignity they have, and how they play the game the right way. Is that like the Ice Capades? I'd put them at number one without question.

Montreal has easily the worst general manager in the league. For example, the PK Subban-Shea Weber trade turned out awful for Bergevin.

Second, Montreal is terrible at drafting. The majority of their first-round picks turn into bottom six forwards, with the two exceptions of Kotkaniemi and Price.

Plus, Montreal fans always think their team is better than yours. Never will a Montreal fan say their team is less likely to win. For example, Alexander Radulov was straight up a bad person. Montreal fan: Oh, he's changed. He's a great guy now.

The Caps don't even pretend to play the puck. They just slash, clothesline, cross-check, and thug it up out there in pursuit of trying to maim or kill their opponent whenever they face a team who is better than they are, who is playing better than they are, or who is winning at any given moment (which is a lot). Not just the dirtiest hockey team, but the dirtiest sports team.

Side note: Their most prominent player brags about driving drunk and speeding, and getting away with it by giving away game tickets. So, I'd like to thank law enforcement in the DC-Capitol area for placing their personal off-duty recreational pursuits ahead of their actual on-duty obligations to keep the roads safe.

Simply put: very few current supporters are long-time fans. Most are bandwagon fans. Look at their attendance in the first three post-lockout years: 65%, 62%, and 82%. They were bad all three years. Then in 2008-09, Toews becomes captain, Quenneville becomes coach, suddenly they start winning, and people who never supported them before claim they have been fans forever.

The "fans" are arrogant, the NHL sucks up to the team, Toews is a cocky captain, Kane is selfish and a terrible role model, Crawford is a drunk, and I could go on.

As a Chicago fan, I have grown to absolutely hate everything about the Canucks, probably more so than the Wings because at least the Wings have some class. Burrows pulling Duncan Keith's hair, Rome's dirty hit on Horton in the 2011 Finals, and of course Ryan Kesler refusing to fight Andrew Ladd because he "doesn't fight fourth liners". This team is stacked with self-entitled crybabies and drama queens.

You can't blame players as they are drafted and traded by certain teams, which are out of their control, and market forces cause players to sign with the highest bidder. However, many of the fans of this organization act almost nonhuman.

If a player on the opposing team is seriously injured by an illegal check by a Canuck player, the fans cheer for more blood, as long as it's more opponents than Canucks.

I've always hated this team, but with them winning the 2021 cup almost 20 million dollars over the cap, and stopping the legendary Cinderella run of my team, I've grown to absolutely despise them. Not to mention Calgary being my second favorite team, and how they were supposed to win the Cup in 2004.

But, of course, Tampa won and stopped the Flames' legendary Cinderella run. Tampa Bay just sucks so much.

I hate this team. I hope they get kicked out and banished forever from the NHL. I mean, I know it's bad sportsmanship to say that, but for one, the Lightning and Panthers are both in Florida. Florida does not get hockey weather. They should focus way more on football and baseball than hockey.

Steven Stamkos is probably their only Canadian player. All the others are Russians, Slovakians, Americans, and Czechoslovakians.

I hate this team, their arrogant fans, and their homer announcers. This organization is pathetic, with only four championships in the 100 years they've been around. Now, they are trying to sign every big name to buy championships.

Lundqvist is definitely the most overrated goalie in the league. The guy is huge in that net. He is most likely wearing twice as many pads as any other goalie to take away shooting areas. I can't stand it.

The New York Rangers are the second-worst team in the NHL, behind the Boston Bruins, but I vote for NYR because they need to be second and because they are violent against the Montreal Canadiens. They injured Carey Price in 2014 and have injured a lot of players from the Habs.

They have no respect for the Canadiens and they should not even be a team, those damn Rangers cheaters.

This team cheated against the Oilers in the 2016-2017 Stanley Cup playoffs. Stupid referees! The Oilers should have won in five games - that is crazy! And the Ducks won in a flat seven games. I also hate this team so much that they are my least favorite team.

Wow, this team should be number one. I am so happy from the rivalry beatdown with San Jose winning, but not just that, sweeping the stupid Ducks. San Jose is definitely not the best team, but they are worth it.

They're the worst. Corey Perry goes out and tries to start fights, then lets the enforcer finish it.

The arena is terrible too. I've been to many Ducks games, and the upper section cannot see the game.

I hope this team gets kicked out and banished forever from the NHL. Who cares about bad sportsmanship? Tell me how many people even care about hockey down there.

Florida should not have two teams. The Panthers don't even have fans. Tampa, at least, is a good team.

They get a team, but us in Hartford got ours taken away? Makes sense.

I've hated them since they played the Wild in the postseason and Forsberg was dirty and never got called for anything.

Unbearable, scummy fan base that just can't shut up about how good MacFraud is. This is what happens when basement dwellers suddenly become contenders. I will quit watching hockey the day this franchise wins the Stanley Cup.

Second round chokers. They suck.

When this team was bad from 2017 to 2018, John Tavares left for the Leafs. Then in the 2018-19 season, they had a good run. The fans blamed John Tavares for the bad seasons prior. They first swept the Penguins in the first round, then got swept by Carolina. This team is garbage anyway.

The worst fans. I have nothing against the team, really. But the fans make them intolerable. They just hate other teams because they sucked for so long. They are obnoxious and loud.

Islanders fans think they're great because they won four straight cups in the 80s. Meanwhile, they're the worst team in the NHL since then, making a franchise like the Rangers, with all their failures, seem great in comparison.

The team totally sucks! It's anger-generating to see how outrageous the fans are for a team that hasn't even won the Stanley Cup and is located in a baseball city (hint - the Cardinals). Enough said! The Blues fans are giving themselves the "blues." Let's put them out of their misery. Dear NHL, please relocate the team!

I hate the Blues because they play a very annoyingly physical game and because they have very unsportsmanlike players that take out their anger on other players. It's not safe for the players and it's just not fun to watch.

Although, I must admit they have a really good penalty kill.

Classless whiners with a sense of entitlement after being handed one of the best expansion rosters in history.

Entitled fan base given an instant contender. They have no clue what it's like to struggle for a few years. Screw Vegas.

Screw them. All throughout the 2019 playoffs, they were targeting Tomas Hertl. What a classless act from a new team.

The city is too hot, no one supports them, their jerseys suck, their logo is disgraceful, and they are just horrible!

Act like Whalers fans should embrace them after they essentially replaced the team. No thanks.

Horrible goal horn. Horrible fan base. Horrible everything. Nothing else needs to be said.

The Oilers definitely have a chance at winning the 2018 cup. A lot of people are thinking about the past Oilers. They are a totally different team than two years ago. They can easily win the Pacific Division and are only going to get better.

A lot of people hate them because they are actually good now, and because they might be Leafs fans. They are a young team with lots of potential.

This team has always played like garbage. Remember when the Oilers lost to the Canes in 2006? That was almost seven years ago. Without Gretzky and Messier, this team sucks. They can't skate. They play horribly. And management sucks! What kind of trade is Taylor Hall for Adam Larson! Let's try not to diss Adam Larson, but to pay for Taylor Hall? I thought maybe Nuge or Eberle would go, but Taylor Hall? I just don't get it.

Oh yeah, I forgot this message is for you Oiler fans: when a goal gets past you, you get pissed.

Their fans love to talk trash on social media.

What is this team doing so low? They're the most boring active team. All they do is "the trap." Sure, it marginally works, but it sure makes for one dull, slow game. Hockey is meant to be entertaining. The trap is not entertaining to watch. Defensive hockey is boring hockey.

This team is not annoying like most teams. Most teams that are worse play dirty, are arrogant, and even just do so consistently well that they start to annoy you. But this team is none of those things. They are just so boring to watch. The game seems to drag on forever.

Horrible place for a hockey team. The Stars logo is an insult to the North Stars.

A hockey team really moved from Minnesota to play here?

What is there to say? I hate this team because I was an Atlanta Thrashers fan. I'm still mad at the team for moving to Winnipeg.

I'd keep them in Winnipeg, but now our rivalry with the Avalanche got worse. I hate Winnipeg for life now.

They should have stayed in Atlanta so their quest could live on.

From childish low IQ juvenile fans to a whiny coach and players, this franchise is an embarrassment to the league. Also, their commentators are just as pathetic and delusional as their fanbase. Just listen to Brody Brazil and Teal Town USA.

It's pretty funny to watch the San Jose Sharks getting stomped by a brand new expansion team, and their salty fans, coaches, and players constantly whining about the Vegas Golden Knights.

I don't understand why fans of teams like the Sharks beat up on teams like Toronto because they can't get out of the first round, and you don't have a cup in the last 55 years. Like seriously, this team is a walking excuse.

They've had the teams to win the cup almost every year and they choke. Come talk to me when you win a cup because if you don't win, it doesn't matter what round you go out in.

Definitely top five for the dirtiest team in the league. They like to hit men while they're down and let the refs give them the go-ahead. It's almost like they pay off the refs. They take a cheap hit whenever they can get away with it.

Worst fan base. All they do is complain, and the team is a bunch of dirty players.

Horrible team. Can't play for anything. Extremely boring to watch them play.