Comment le découpage atlantique prend-il sens géographiquement ?
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Comment le découpage atlantique prend-il sens géographiquement ?
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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!!
Growing up, I always thought Chicago was much closer to say, Colorado given them being in the west.
Why are boobs good?
Houston really should have a hockey team. Crazy they don’t…
Colorado and Dallas really be all the way out there by themselves.
Gotta be honest, I wish there were one more Canadian team and Canada was its own division. The rivalries would be insane. For time zone/tv ratings it’ll never happen, but still think it would be fun.
Maybe just use first names of people like Patrick or Adams
If it wasn’t for flyers and rangers blocking them in the bruins could easily maneuver to any of their rivals by going west then either go up or down.
Timezone
They probably save on travel costs by having the teams travel a long distance once, playing a handful of games against multiple nearby teams, and then flying back… would just require some crafty scheduling involving lengthy road trips.
We should go back to the Adams, Patrick, Norris and Smythe divisions again and all these geographic questions would fade away
I honestly believe that when they reorganized the divisions. florida and tampa were put in the Atlantic just to have fans from Toronto, Boston, and Montreal in their buildings more often to keep them afloat. Especially Florida.
You see the metro is a rectangle down the coast with the northwest line from the coast going just below Boston.
The rest got slapped in the Atlantic
Nashville being in the West will always surprise me.
That’s all Atlantic division? It doesn’t make sense at all. Some of those teams should be in central or even metro division, and the West Coast teams should obviously be in the Pacific division.
You take some teams, and put them there. Easy peasy
As a Dolphins fan, it has never made sense to me why they’re in the AFC East. I don’t understand what they’re doing when they make divisions across some sports.
Historic rivalries
All are within 2,800 miles of Atlanta. Duh
New york(s), new jersey, boston, quebec, ontario.
Toronto, Montreal and Boston keep the Florida teams afloat in terms of ticket sales.
Winnipeg literally in the middle of nowhere
Because divisions are designed for maximum revenue. If teams are close together and interesting rivalries they are put together.
It doesn’t geographically.
It’s done this way so rivalries exist and to keep divisions competitive.
The Division geographically would be completely unbalanced. Like 12 teams in the Atlantic and 4 in the Metro. The only other way would be to divide up rival teams.
Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Buffalo. NYR, NYI, Boston, and NJ. Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, Columbus and Pittsburgh. Tampa and Florida. The divisions have lumping due to proximity. Technically Detroit could be with the Toronto group.
My only fix would be to move Detroit and Columbus into Atlantic then Florida and Tampa into Metro. Otherwise you’re massively disrupting groupings that would make no sense to separate.
It doesn’t. At all.
Idk why’s Arizona in the central?
Same time zone