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The Red Wings evry time they play it seems like a hard fought battle to beat them

I think our most hated rivals are the Detroit Redwings! Every time we go to the playoffs it seems we're playing them sooner or later! The games are always heated and fights breakout everywhere! We've won some of those battles and they've won some, but when these games take place they're always very exciting and hard hitting, and usually go the distance!

I pretty much hate them all equally but I have to say it really hurt seeing the Blackhawks roll over us in the conference finals. I guess at least we got their goalie!.

I would have to go with the red wings!!!

Vancover hands down. Their fans are terrible and wear canucks jerseys to games the canucks are not even playing in. They beat us with a fluke goal in the 2011 conference finals which never should have happened due to a blown icing call as well. They are a talented team but do not play a tough style like Kings which is a rival I can respect more. Their players also look for penalties by falling and snapping their heads back.

I have to pick Vancouver. I have an utter hate for this team and as you mention Bieksa's flukey overtime goal. Not to mention the twins and their huge foreheads.

I'd say Vancouver, if only because their fans were quite annoying in our building during the 2010 western conference finals. I remember the fans celebrating in our stands after the game 4 defeat, waving around the Canadian flag which covered about half the seats of an entire section. Other than their fans, it just seems like the play between the two teams has been quite physical as well recently.

it has got to be the cancuks! and especially in recent years. that is a team you have got to just love to hate! it's not so much how good they are... it's that their play and overall way they are is just so annoying. and don't get me started on their fans...

The sharks most hated rival?!?!? There a few teams that are easy choices wings and kings both valid, however I am going to go with those dam dirty flying rats the DUCKS!!! I don't think the sharks nor the sharks fans ever like to see them and its always a very tuff hard faught game!!

I'd have to say, it's the Ducks. The games tend to be very physical (not a key aspect of the Sharks game) and the Sharks should beat them about every time, at least on paper. Yet, the Ducks always get up for those games. Piggybacking on the idea behind the article, it feels like the Sharks upstart cousin coming to town to embarrass them in front of their girlfriend. Which is why Sharks fans hate Parros so much, not matter where he's playing.

Although it has simmered a tad... The Sharks/Red Wings rivalry for a good chunk of time was about as good as it gets.

Going with Canucks for this one. We hate Detroit because, well, they're so much like us. How much would we really "hate" LA and Anaheim if their weren't neighbors? We hate Vancouver for the #1 reasons you should hate a team - they play dirty, and they beat us in the playoffs.

Red Wings, which is tough for me cuz they were my favorite team before the Sharks came to San Jose.

I've battled with this question a lot too. Part of me thinks that the Sharks main rival would be with the Stars. Mainly basing it off the fact that both teams were split from the Minnesota North Stars alongside Ott and playoff experience. Then I thought of the Ducks. Nope. The Canucks? Certainly. We get up to play them, playing similar horrible seasons this year. Nastiness between teams. But I think everyone hates them. So no good. The Red Wings have certainly been a team that our rivalry stands strong against. But maybe less so this season. Multiple playoff performances, our first series win. Regular season success. Our head coach modeling our team after the wings. Too many similarities and recent battles. But my hat goes to LA. After banishing them from the first round playing this team has been much more competitive. Obviously they won a cup leaving San Jose to be the last team in California without one. San Jose has dominated the pacific the past years and it is likely we see the kings take hold of a few more banners. But finally because they're just a team from LA, Nor Cal fans despise them all the same.

I really don't like the Canucks. Especially the Sedin twins. Right now they're probably soaking up in a bathtub full of d*cks lined with rose pedals, drinking breast milk, and applying lotion onto each other as an Enya Greatest Hits CD plays gently in the background. Those dudes are baby thighs.

REDWINGS. Sharks eat wings for dinner.

Gotta be the Ducks, just thinking about how their fake fans got to see their team win a cup before us makes my blood boil.

I wish I could say the yotes were actually a rival (or threat) to the Sharks. Then I might be among more than 5 people in the shark tank cheering for Phoenix when they come to town. As for a real rival, I'd say the Kings come to mind first. Nothing like keeping the Bay vs LA rivalry alive across all sports.

It's the 'Nucks. It has to be. The Blackhawks outclassed us in 2010 and 2013 (thus far), but the Canucks just got under the Sharks' skin (especially a particularly Eager moron) and watched us beat ourselves in 2011. That 2011 Stanley Cup should have been ours. Sure, the Canucks are the most-hated team in the league, so everyone hates them, but Sharks fans have particularly good reasons to despise this organization. Their players whine to the refs all game, every game, and they are always getting caught on camera making dirty plays when the refs aren't looking. My feelings when I see our opponent's fans in the Tank can sum it all up: LA: You just bought your jersey, you dumb bandwagoner. Detroit: I laugh. We own Detroit recently. Chicago: Respect. Gotta hang my head. Vancouver: RAGE. Go back to Vancouver, where even Canadians your city. Blue and Green make me see red.

I personally thing the Kings are the Sharks most hated rivals. The first hockey game I ever went to was the Sharks VS the Kings. My dad told me, "that is the enemy." Lol. I guess that kind of always just stuck... Not to mention they won the Stanley Cup!!!!!...Jerks

Los Angeles Kings. Its a Norcal SoCal thing.

Has to be Vancouver...those games are always intense...nasty....and playoff type.

Ducks!!!

Not sure if this has been mentioned previously on Thread but SJ is 3-2 all time post season vs Wings. Det beat them after in 95 quarters after the 94 upset the yr prior..and in 6 in 2007 on the strength of a Robert Lang goal in game 4 with 30 sec left. Swung the series. Being a Detroit fan and having lived locally and in Michigan..your original premise is a bit skewed toward what locals would like to believe. The Sharks use the Wings as a barometer for success and have knocked them off at times in the postseason. Det fans don't care for SJ..but on the whole don't hate them/view them as a pure rival. Love the site- got linked on to this by Liz- we went to HS together. Keep up good work!

Id say detroit because its the longest running. They were the first team we faced and beat in the 94 playoffs. Prior to our current coach we had only won in their rink twice in the regular season. It seems everytime they meet its epic

Easy...Dallas Stars. So many important battles for the Pacific division & in the playoffs. Mike Modano was a Sharkie nemesis along with many other Stars players. Numerous fights throughout many of the regular season match ups. Plus, Bay Area & Dallas/Metroplex is a natural rival other than SF v. LA.

Vancouver. My cousin Brian is a Canucks fan and there is nothing more obnoxious than talking sports with a Canadian. It always turns into a discussion about how baseball and football are stupid and why don't I follow a real sport like soccer. I say F that and F you Canucks. All of em.

It has to be the Ducks. I mean, over the years plenty of teams managed to break our hearts, but the Ducks made it an art-form in '09. I couldn't get excited going into the playoffs with the Sharks after that year.

The Kings. I hate any LA team and they won the Stanley Cup last year.

I think it is the RED WINGS. I wanna win I have never been to a hockey game

All time, based on history I'd say the Stars. Besides what I said earlier about Ott and Belfour, they're the only team the Sharks have seen multiple times in the playoffs and have never beaten. For a current Sharks rival, it would have to be the Ducks. Granted, there is only one playoff series between them, but every time the Sharks face them, it's always something... whether it's been about Teemu or Parros or Getzlaf or Pronger. As it stands today, the team I hate most right now is the Canucks. However, it doesn't have that much to do with the Sharks. Yes, I'm still a little bitter from the WCF loss. I've just gotten so tired of seeing the Sedins and Burrows and Kesler dive like their playing euro soccer. The Vancouver fans don't make it any easier. They break their ankles getting on and off the bandwagon and their entitlement attitude is amazing. Listen to any post game show after a win and it's how unstoppable and dynamic they are. After a loss, it's all about how they didn't get outplayed, but that the refs jobbed them and it's fire the coach, trade Luongo/Kesler/Edler/whoever.

I feel like the Canucks are the Sharks most hated rival. Seems like every time the Sharks and Canucks play, the energy and level of competition are through the roof. And now with the new realignment, the Sharks and Canucks will be facing each other more often, creating more exciting games

The Red Wings also eliminated the Sharks in the 2006-07 playoffs when the Sharks just choked the series when they were a mere minute away from going up 3-1 in that series. Most bitter and angry rivalry goes to the Ducks. The rivalry built on excellence is the Red Wings, both teams were at the top of their game for many years and provided a lot of great games. The rivalry built on creepy gingers is the Canucks. Chicago doesn't quite make the cut, not enough history there. None of the games have been particularly angry. There is the notable elimination, but that's really the only major clash between the two. Kings, Coyotes and Stars are annoying, but rarely do those matchups get to the intensity level of Sharks-Ducks. Flames and Colorado for ten years ago, but not so much of late.

By far the Ducks. Our rivalries with teams like Detroit, Chicago, and Vancouver come and go based on our playoff seeding and the strength of each club. But I'll always hate when we play the Ducks. It doesn't matter if they are the best and we are the worst... Plus the only fan of an opposing team that I've openly taunted at The Tank was a Ducks fan.

Though I am not a sharks fan myself, growing up in the bay area I have be submerged into the shark culture. Being a fan of another team I can truly see the Kings are the most hated rivals. In California most northern California teams are pitted against the southern California teams. The kings are good competition and shark fans hate any team that is better than them. I think the California rivalry makes sparks fly and makes games even more intense. Side note, I think the sharks need to get some new youngsters they can't rely solely on their first line and expect to win the stanley cup

The Canucks. They are just dirty.

i'd say detroit, mainly because of their history. But, i think the consensus is the kings for geography and that they won a cup before the sharks.

The Kings... >:(

I have to go Vancouver. Not other seems to get under my skin like those dirty little bastards. They're like mob of whiny brats that need a good pummeling

The Blackhawks have consistently killed us,usually when it matters most in the playoffs

The Sharks biggest rival are the sharks players themselves.

Since the Red Wings are moving to the east next year, it has to be the Ducks; damn Disney team!

This is something that changes every few years. It used to be Dallas without question, but as they've declined in talent and age over the years it's not the same old Owen Nolan hitting Mike Madono from behind rivalry. And once "The Otter" left I can't really find anyone to hate over there. Same goes for Anaheim since Jiggy, Pronger, and Teamu left the first time I can't say there's anyone I see on their roster I want to slap their mother for having given birth to them. Detroit will always hold a special place in my heart since I have friends and family that are Dead Wings fans, but knowing they are headed to the East takes them out of the "rival" category. Nothing will make a Bay Area sports fans blood rise like seeing any team from So Cal accomplish anything good. The Kings winning the cup and raising a banner on California soil cements them as my choice as the Sharks #1 rival. BEAT L-A!!!!

I say the Ducks. What a fake team from a fake city.

With the departure of Steve Ott and George Parros, the Sharks most hated rival must be the LA Kings. Having met recently in the playoffs, albeit San Jose took the series, and considering the fact that LA won the Stanley Cup last season, there is no question LA is the biggest rival.

That would be wonderful to win. GO SHARKS!!!!

How do you not have the Dallas Stars listed? With all the shenanigans that Steve Ott has pulled against the Sharks, the Stars have to be listed in the top 3. And how can we forget the whole Belfour debacle? I have a lot of hockey / Sharks fans for friends and when this debate gets going, there is no love for the Ducks, Wings, or Nucks, but there is outright hatred against the Stars.

I am with others on this board....right now, I just really hate the LA Kings. Each game this year I feel the rivalry picking up steam.

I'd say either Ducks or Kings. I think it's more that I hate all teams associated with LA, so not sure if they are truly the biggest rivals for the Sharks, or if I personally just hate them the most. Coming in a close 3rd place is the Canucks. Fo sho.