For me personally, my rival team has been New Orleans basically since they joined the league. They came in around the last time the Jets were strongly contending for the cup and the team was primarily made up of people that I had played with in St. Louis. It added a lot of flavor to each playoff series against them when I could troll around with Slash and Nic. Specifically, we played against them in the Western Conference Finals of S48 and beat them in game 7 before losing to Buffalo. They outshot us 242 to 202 in that series, but we snuck the OT winner in 6 before blowing out 7 for an overall 20 - 19 goals in the series. Next year, we met in the conference semis and they blew us out 4-1. We kept it close through the first three, with 2 OT loses and 1 win (by 1 goal), but they won the war of attrition with another 1 goal win in game 4 and a 2 goal win in game 5. It's doubtful that this really registered to NOLA because they went on to lose in the conference finals that year and then got swept in the conference finals the year after that. Conference finals were probably a bigger rival than us by that point.

But also, St Louis is in my blood so fuck Detroit. Scarecrow Noises and all that.