Everyone wants to cheer on a hometown kid winning a championship. It feels like a natural thing — to want to support anyone local and that possibly had some similar experiences as you growing up. And in Philadelphia, the feeling of Supporting Philadelphia is stronger than most cities.
Unfortunately, as hockey fans we aren’t privy to this feeling very often. Unlike other cities like Boston, Minneapolis, New York, Detroit, or literally anywhere in Canada, there is not a whole lot of Philadelphian representation in the NHL. For some reason, maybe exposure or just naturally gifted athletes who are local deciding to play a sport that will eventually pay them several times more, the amount of professional hockey players per capita in the Philadelphia area might be the lowest on the entire continent.