NA I'm not sure people wanted the fall of the juggernauts, or just more variety.
I'm also not sure that the existence of big pairings necessarily lead to a sense of community across hockey fandom as a whole. The popularity of K/T or S/G is pretty irrelevant to people who wrote for different teams in the first place. And people write for the pairings they love, even though it might be only five other people into the pairing.
Within say the Pens fans it may be harder now to find someone who shares the same pairing, but it really doesn't change anything for people who never wrote Pens anyway.
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Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)I'm also not sure that the existence of big pairings necessarily lead to a sense of community across hockey fandom as a whole. The popularity of K/T or S/G is pretty irrelevant to people who wrote for different teams in the first place. And people write for the pairings they love, even though it might be only five other people into the pairing.
Within say the Pens fans it may be harder now to find someone who shares the same pairing, but it really doesn't change anything for people who never wrote Pens anyway.