Oilers fans disrespect America with inappropriate chants during national anthem

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Graham Montgomery
June 22, 2024 (10:58)

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The Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers are facing off for game six of the Stanley Cup final tonight but the fans in the crowd were quite disrespectful during the singing of the national anthems.

When Canadian and American teams are playing each other, it is tradition in the NHL for the arenas to sing both country's national anthems. In this case, they sang the Star spangled Banner first, as the Panthers are the visiting team. As the anthem singer started the American tune, many of the fans in the crowd started chanting, "Sergei, Sergei," in an attempt to get inside the head of the Panthers netminder.

Oilers fans were chanting «SERGEI» so loud they covered up the US National anthem

Disrespect, or passionate fans?

#TimeToHunt #LetsGoOilers

When asked how fans felt about this, the response was rather unified. Oilers fans collectively pointed out that Panthers fans booed in Florida when they were singing the Canadian National Anthem, O Canada.

Then they sang the anthem. Meanwhile ##TimeToHunt fans boo'd the Canadian Anthem

Florida fans booed O' Canada before two of their home games.

This does not necessarily make chanting during the American National Anthem acceptable. After all, two wrongs does not make a right. That being said, at the end of the day, this doesn't really matter. The Oilers lead game six 2-0 early in the second period as they attempt to become just the 10th team in NHL history to force a game seven in a series after going down 0-3. Tune in yourself to see how the rest of the game plays out.