What are your expectations for success in 13-14

[Trotsky]

- The week before the Eagles play the Cowboys, they sell t-shirts outside of Flyers and Sixers games that say "Dallas Sucks" or even "Fuck Dallas."

The irony here is that the same shirts and bumper stickers are ubiquitous in Washington and probably East Rutherford.

Dallas and the Yankees are special cases.  They are reviled nationally, not just locally.  It's not just success, or the Lakers and Celtics would be too.

The best example of a purely local rivalry I can think of in pro sports is the Cardinas and Cubs.  They generate as great animosity as any other pairing, it's mutual, and nobody else cares.  There are dozens of college examples, usually some permutation of U of X vs X State.
 
We don't have anything like that in hockey.  Our arch rival is Harvard but Harvard only cares about Yale.  Even were it to become Yale, same issue.  Let's not even mention BU.  On the other side Colgate lives to destroy us while we don't even notice their existence.