Florida 3 Stanley Cup Final wins, 4 Final losses: 7 total appearances
(including the last 4 in a row and potentially a 5th if the Panthers make it to this year's SCF)
Minnesota - 2 Cup Final losses, 1 team relocated to Texas.
outside the northeast and minnesota the NHL team being there is the direct cause for most hockey players being hockey players whether muh snowfall or not because there's hardly anywhere to skate without the infrastructure they bring
Exactly. It's why Gary is so devoted to keeping Arizona going and why he wants Houston and Atlanta. Every NHL team has a practice rink which typically has multiple ice surfaces. Then the NHL team knows that investing in local minor hockey is the route to a sustainable fanbase instead of a boom/bust bandwagon fanbase.
northern us second-tier city teams have problems getting non-americans because not home but still meh weather/environment and why get taxed more to live in Winnipeg than Vegas or Miami if youre Canadian
>play for northern/canadian team >big market and lots of eyes on you >shitty weather
>play for southern team >media doesn't care about you, free to walk around and no one even knows who you are >no state taxes >warm weather and dumb blondes
Auston Matthews is from Arizona and he's a fricko
>le regular season man
He's a fraud
Correct, this was the NHLs stupid expansion plan
>I can fix the NHL
No Teams below the Mason Dixon line
Only NHL teams in green states, Missouri is honorary and can keep the blues
so dumb California wasn't split at the 37th parallel like everything else
also the Capitals
>"free" states
Mr. Zamboni lived in LA
Hockey is the only white man's sport left
Go Blues
Is San Francisco sunbelt?
its part of america's seethebelt, also known as california.
LA Tampa and Vegas are the only cities in this region that deserve teams
Huge OP
Florida 3 Stanley Cup Final wins, 4 Final losses: 7 total appearances
(including the last 4 in a row and potentially a 5th if the Panthers make it to this year's SCF)
Minnesota - 2 Cup Final losses, 1 team relocated to Texas.
>what if people who have never seen a natural snowfall cared about hocket
Canada hasn't won a stanley cup since 1993 lmao.
how many canadians were on the last team that won the stanley cup?
how many nhl championship parades have been held in canada in the last 3 decades?
that's for evading my question. your concession is accepted.
The same amount of championships Canadian teams have won in the past 31 years
So you were rooting for Vegas last season? based sunbelt CHAD
Can you read a flag?
We had one but it was (involuntarily) sacrificed for the then-Hornets now-Pelicans
Dallas has won the cup.
>california
3 cups
>nevada
1 cup
>texas
1 cup
>florida
3 cups
All SINCE Canada won a cup.
I need to call the suicide hotline
Los Angeles is the only sunbelt city that deserves a team
>sunbelt city with the longest continuous NHL presence is the best sunbelt city at producing NHLers
outside the northeast and minnesota the NHL team being there is the direct cause for most hockey players being hockey players whether muh snowfall or not because there's hardly anywhere to skate without the infrastructure they bring
Exactly. It's why Gary is so devoted to keeping Arizona going and why he wants Houston and Atlanta. Every NHL team has a practice rink which typically has multiple ice surfaces. Then the NHL team knows that investing in local minor hockey is the route to a sustainable fanbase instead of a boom/bust bandwagon fanbase.
stay out
Why are the most successful teams from this area? Does no one really want to play for northern teams?
northern us second-tier city teams have problems getting non-americans because not home but still meh weather/environment and why get taxed more to live in Winnipeg than Vegas or Miami if youre Canadian
>play for northern/canadian team
>big market and lots of eyes on you
>shitty weather
>play for southern team
>media doesn't care about you, free to walk around and no one even knows who you are
>no state taxes
>warm weather and dumb blondes
You tell me
>southern states
>blondes
Literally every state in that photo is either majority black or majority Mexicans
with a good accountant a player in canada can pay the same or less tax than the equivalent in florida
Nevada, Florida and Texas have no state income tax so playing there makes you more money in a sport with a hard salary cap
Imagine if anyone cared about hockey
then it would be even more satisfying to own you in international tournaments