If I’d been named Co-GM of Seattle, I think our biggest rival from a personal beef would have been the Jakarta Dragons, right off the bat. There is some deep seated dislike there, that would only get worse if I was in GM chat. Tig made the right choice to limit drama, and I support it fully.

For now, I’d say Seattle’s biggest rival is our division opponents the Minnesota Monarchs. The games have all been pretty close, and both teams are in a position of (re)building their systems: Seattle as an expansion team and Minnesota after being woefully mismanaged during the sarmo shadow GM era. Each team has won 3 games this season (with one game going to OT), after Seattle won the season series 3-1 last year. Neither team has had much success competing against the rest of the division, so the Monarchs-Argonauts games take on extra meaning in the standings. There’s not a ton of bad blood off the ice to date (though I *was* part of the Buffalo Stampede during the infamous tampering scandal of a different Minnesota era). It feels very much like a “let’s fucking beat these guys, then shake their hands and grab a beer” sort of situation.

Not the same for Calgary. Fuck ‘em.