5 of top 14 teams are from the eastern conference.

[Uncle Bill]

The Atlantic alone has 3 of the top 5 teams in the NHL...you can twist the stats however you want. The conferences are pretty equal. More depth and reliability in the West, more volatility in the East.

Beg pardon? Nashville, Tampa, Boston, Winnipeg and Vegas are the nhl’s top five. Pretty sure three of those five are from the west.

 

[CanadienShark]

I wonder why no one else brings up the Lightning record or the Bruins record against the Atlantic the way only the Leafs get brought up in that example.

The poster you quoted was quoting a post that mentioned all three of Tampa, Boston, and Toronto... That's someone. To be fair, the poster didn't bring up the record. That said, it's silly to suggest that the division makes things significantly easier when it's shown that teams such as Toronto as are fairly consistent in how they perform in division vs out of division, and in conference vs out of conference. I can get the argument of beating up on a team in division, but that can happen in any division.

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Why are you hiding who you root for?

Hiding? LOL

Oh a Leafs fan. Caps have come closer to beating Pitt than the Loafs ever could. Hey hope you win a SC sometime this century
Hint - it's no longer a 6 team league

Also, the irony of your statement coming from a Caps fan

LOLOLOL

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Beg pardon? Nashville, Tampa, Boston, Winnipeg and Vegas are the nhl’s top five. Pretty sure three of those five are from the west.

You know what he meant.

3 of the top 6 teams are in one division- the Atlantic

 

[AvsFan29]

Did you say top 14 because #15 + #16 are eastern conference teams?

Agendas aside, 7 of the top 16 teams are from the East so slightly less than 50%

Yes. Because if I had said the top 16 teams, then my statement of " 5 of the top 14 teams" would then not have been true.