Two separate trips to Florida? You forget the Atlantic Division is relatively geographically balanced with the exception of the Florida anomaly.
BrattleLoop
Maybe Vancouver’s doing most of the really-far east travels in one swing, and Montreal has to go out west a couple of times?
Chiggins907
I’m surprised Utah is at #5. Did they put them in the eastern conference? /s
KaleidoscopeOk1346
I raise your tax argument and introduce this.
It appears that teams that travel further are more likely to be Stanley cup competitors.
superfastguy
Leafs and Sens are in the same division and located right next to each other, yet Leafs have to travel almost 8k more KM
KidForToday
Vancouver has historically had some of the most travel in the league. It’s only been recently that they’ve cut it back a bit, I wonder if the org. complained.
bloodrider1914
There’s a high concentration of teams in the southwest (LA, Anaheim, San Jose, Vegas, formerly Arizona) that are a pain in the ass to travel to, plus the four games in Florida. In comparison there aren’t as many far off Southeast teams (just the Florida ones, Carolina, and Nashville (but even that’s more central)) for the Canucks’ big road trip, while Vancouver of course has ready access to the concentrated southwestern teams.
Philly514
The 8 games against the florida teams is like 10k kms so it makes sense. Also MTL is like 500kms away from every team except Ottawa.
StaunchModerate
Dallas experiencing the only downside of being the Finnish Mafia
ancedactyl
I presume Devils and Buffalo are skewed by the start in Prague otherwise I think they would be amongst the lowest.
Mephisto1822
NHL trying to keep Crosby alive by limiting his travel this season I see
Leeroy_D
Wow sharks aren’t the leader in this for once
msp01986
All of Vancouver’s divisional opponents are pretty close, Calgary, Edmonton, Seattle. Montreal travels to florida and tampa pretty often, maybe that’s it 🤷
tdnyrfan
Montreal is going out west 3 different times, they have 1 trip to California and going back at another time to play Vegas, Utah, Colorado. They have a separate trip to go to Western Canada and Seattle. Vancouver when they go East they’re playing more teams on the road trips.
UtahBlizzard
Vancouver’s furthest divisional rival, LA is 1750 km away. Montreal’s furthest divisional rival, Florida, is 2200 km
JTMillerAdvocate
Vancouver bangs out their west coast trips and easy coast trips in one go, for the most part
EnglishWhites
Dallas seems like they travel a lot before you realize that most of that is just getting out of fucking Texas
Mahjin
Nashville seems lighter than normal, while Boston looks bit heavier.
Tacosrule89
There’s a pretty hefty difference between LA and Anaheim as well considering they’re in the same metro area.
BathroomSerious1318
Man Dallas
lets_kill_time
This chart adds a huge obstacle for Panthers to go back to back. (No pun intended)
SpreaditOnnn33
Makes sense the league wants to expand to large markets close to Dallas and Florida
Non-Vanilla_Zilla
Bettman rigging it for the Pens again I see smh
BillyJayJersey505
I’m always surprised that the three NY area teams along with the Flyers don’t have the lowest travel distance every season. I do understand that the Devila would be taken out of the equation this season because of where they’re starting the season.
joe_lmr
I sure don’t miss CBJ being in the West
UNaytoss
florida games i imagine
Onuus
Such is life
dangerzoneish
I’m surprised la and ana are so far apart in this list. Shows how the schedule can fuck with a teams travel. You’d think in theory they would be almost the same.
TehRaptorJebus
Hey look, Calgary isn’t 16 or 17 for once.
HockeyS003
I think Dallas always is number one on this list, doesn’t matter what the schedule is. I guess geography is to thank for that.
ForethaBirdies
We go on 2 week trips to travel the east coast. So only going across country once. Montreal probably goes to Florida on 2 separate trips, and other similar scenarios. It just adds up. Montreal can also play their division with trips under 2 hours for the most part. We have to go on multiple California and Vegas trips
capsrock02
Because of how the schedule is laid out. Montreal could, for example, travel from St. Louis, to Winnipeg, to Minnesota to Nashville on the same road trip. Not exactly linear path. Also not exact because teams can change their travel schedules to come home depending on circumstances.
chp129
At the time, it was up to the North East teams to prop up the Florida based teams since their fans weren’t supporting their teams. People from the north east would often come down south for the nicer weather during the winter and want to catch a game or two. Ideally if their team was in town. (Look at how far FLA and TPA fly this season).
Now that the Florida franchises have strong fan bases, the league should redo the divisions in the east.
Jeez-essFC
Old enough to remember when the Wings were at the top of that list.
djstarfish
Tampa being in the same division?
PeteyG89
As someone who hates to fly I cant imagine being on a plane as much as hockey or baseball players are on them for
Vingt-Quatre
Must be nice to play in the Metro division and be able to travel to most road games by bicycle.
Fergizzo
Ottawa is in the same division and about 90 minutes drive from Montreal but they have nearly 20 thousand km less travel time? Wtf
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They have to travel in French and English
By plane mostly
Two separate trips to Florida? You forget the Atlantic Division is relatively geographically balanced with the exception of the Florida anomaly.
Maybe Vancouver’s doing most of the really-far east travels in one swing, and Montreal has to go out west a couple of times?
I’m surprised Utah is at #5. Did they put them in the eastern conference? /s
I raise your tax argument and introduce this.
It appears that teams that travel further are more likely to be Stanley cup competitors.
Leafs and Sens are in the same division and located right next to each other, yet Leafs have to travel almost 8k more KM
Vancouver has historically had some of the most travel in the league. It’s only been recently that they’ve cut it back a bit, I wonder if the org. complained.
There’s a high concentration of teams in the southwest (LA, Anaheim, San Jose, Vegas, formerly Arizona) that are a pain in the ass to travel to, plus the four games in Florida. In comparison there aren’t as many far off Southeast teams (just the Florida ones, Carolina, and Nashville (but even that’s more central)) for the Canucks’ big road trip, while Vancouver of course has ready access to the concentrated southwestern teams.
The 8 games against the florida teams is like 10k kms so it makes sense. Also MTL is like 500kms away from every team except Ottawa.
Dallas experiencing the only downside of being the Finnish Mafia
I presume Devils and Buffalo are skewed by the start in Prague otherwise I think they would be amongst the lowest.
NHL trying to keep Crosby alive by limiting his travel this season I see
Wow sharks aren’t the leader in this for once
All of Vancouver’s divisional opponents are pretty close, Calgary, Edmonton, Seattle. Montreal travels to florida and tampa pretty often, maybe that’s it 🤷
Montreal is going out west 3 different times, they have 1 trip to California and going back at another time to play Vegas, Utah, Colorado. They have a separate trip to go to Western Canada and Seattle. Vancouver when they go East they’re playing more teams on the road trips.
Vancouver’s furthest divisional rival, LA is 1750 km away. Montreal’s furthest divisional rival, Florida, is 2200 km
Vancouver bangs out their west coast trips and easy coast trips in one go, for the most part
Dallas seems like they travel a lot before you realize that most of that is just getting out of fucking Texas
Nashville seems lighter than normal, while Boston looks bit heavier.
There’s a pretty hefty difference between LA and Anaheim as well considering they’re in the same metro area.
Man Dallas
This chart adds a huge obstacle for Panthers to go back to back. (No pun intended)
Makes sense the league wants to expand to large markets close to Dallas and Florida
Bettman rigging it for the Pens again I see smh
I’m always surprised that the three NY area teams along with the Flyers don’t have the lowest travel distance every season. I do understand that the Devila would be taken out of the equation this season because of where they’re starting the season.
I sure don’t miss CBJ being in the West
florida games i imagine
Such is life
I’m surprised la and ana are so far apart in this list. Shows how the schedule can fuck with a teams travel. You’d think in theory they would be almost the same.
Hey look, Calgary isn’t 16 or 17 for once.
I think Dallas always is number one on this list, doesn’t matter what the schedule is. I guess geography is to thank for that.
We go on 2 week trips to travel the east coast. So only going across country once. Montreal probably goes to Florida on 2 separate trips, and other similar scenarios. It just adds up. Montreal can also play their division with trips under 2 hours for the most part. We have to go on multiple California and Vegas trips
Because of how the schedule is laid out. Montreal could, for example, travel from St. Louis, to Winnipeg, to Minnesota to Nashville on the same road trip. Not exactly linear path. Also not exact because teams can change their travel schedules to come home depending on circumstances.
At the time, it was up to the North East teams to prop up the Florida based teams since their fans weren’t supporting their teams. People from the north east would often come down south for the nicer weather during the winter and want to catch a game or two. Ideally if their team was in town. (Look at how far FLA and TPA fly this season).
Now that the Florida franchises have strong fan bases, the league should redo the divisions in the east.
Old enough to remember when the Wings were at the top of that list.
Tampa being in the same division?
As someone who hates to fly I cant imagine being on a plane as much as hockey or baseball players are on them for
Must be nice to play in the Metro division and be able to travel to most road games by bicycle.
Ottawa is in the same division and about 90 minutes drive from Montreal but they have nearly 20 thousand km less travel time? Wtf
One more thing going against the ducks, neato