Mainly because the fans of the Canadian teams in the division go to Florida for the winter
Zanikinskywalk
All has to do with time zones. They might have a 4-5 hr flight. But there’s no time difference so the travel isn’t as bad. Plus most of the time the schedule planners take into account travel times for those games.
Bomdegety
Because doing it geographically would have meant breaking up one or more rivalries in the Metro Division
Thick_Dragonfruit_37
All hockey fans are idiots? Well, on this sub at least.
Devo198989
Because clearly Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Buffalo, and Detroit are all Atlantic maritime cities
efacpejgbm
None of the divisions make sense
lnvalidSportsOpinion
The NFL’s NFC East has entered the chat.
GrayRoberts
Land does not equal people. Check that map when applied to population density. If anything, how can western Canada support the team it has?
NockerLacsap
It doesn’t, and timezones be damned this is how I would make up the divisions. It’s tough to break up some of these teams like Buffalo and Boston, although I figured it was more important to keep Boston and Montreal together, and Carolina definitely gets the shaft travel wise. Will it ever happen? Not a chance in hell.
Northern: Winnipeg, Minnesota, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, Boston
Metropolis: Buffalo, NY Islanders, NY Rangers, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Washington
Southern: Colorado, Dallas, St-Louis, Houston, Carolina, Nashville, Tampa Bay, Florida
Western: Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, San Jose, Anaheim, Las Vegas, Los Angeles
TheRitalinCommando
They should just go back to the confusing conference and division names?
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Mainly because the fans of the Canadian teams in the division go to Florida for the winter
All has to do with time zones. They might have a 4-5 hr flight. But there’s no time difference so the travel isn’t as bad. Plus most of the time the schedule planners take into account travel times for those games.
Because doing it geographically would have meant breaking up one or more rivalries in the Metro Division
All hockey fans are idiots? Well, on this sub at least.
Because clearly Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Buffalo, and Detroit are all Atlantic maritime cities
None of the divisions make sense
The NFL’s NFC East has entered the chat.
Land does not equal people. Check that map when applied to population density. If anything, how can western Canada support the team it has?
It doesn’t, and timezones be damned this is how I would make up the divisions. It’s tough to break up some of these teams like Buffalo and Boston, although I figured it was more important to keep Boston and Montreal together, and Carolina definitely gets the shaft travel wise. Will it ever happen? Not a chance in hell.
Northern: Winnipeg, Minnesota, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, Boston
Metropolis: Buffalo, NY Islanders, NY Rangers, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Washington
Southern: Colorado, Dallas, St-Louis, Houston, Carolina, Nashville, Tampa Bay, Florida
Western: Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, San Jose, Anaheim, Las Vegas, Los Angeles
They should just go back to the confusing conference and division names?
Go Norris division! Go Campbell conference!!