Is the Myth That the West Is Bigger, Meaner and Better Than the East Finally Dead?

[tuozzi]

When's the last time the west won the cup... Cool thanks

Are you implying 4 years is a long time?

 

[KingsFan7824]

If there's a myth about a myth, does that make the myth that had a myth created about it true?

 

[Midnight Judges]

It's bizarre that anyone could buy into a generalization like that. There are 31 teams and they all draft from the same pool. The players themselves move from east to west and vice versa.

This whole concept is just plain dumb.

 

[Fugazy]

I don't think it was a myth so much as it was true and now it's less true.

Spot on.

 

[rocketdan9]

The two top scoring forwards on the Jackets are 5'11"/168lb Artemi Panarin and 5'8"/179lb Cam Atkinson.

Johnny Gaudreau's existence does not automatically make the Flames a "small team".

those two guys are the smallest on the team

Guys like Josh Anderson, Jenner, Foligno, Nash, Jones, Savard are big boys

Cmon

 

[Viqsi]

those two guys are the smallest on the team

Guys like Josh Anderson, Jenner, Foligno, Nash, Jones, Savard are big boys

Cmon

I'm not arguing that the Jackets are small. Far from it. I'm just saying that pointing to a team's smallish leading scorer is a bad way of "proving" that a team lacks size.

 

[Ryan Michaels]

I don't think it was a myth so much as it was true and now it's less true.

 

[Kegsey]

Bigger and meaner but not better.

 

[Ryan Michaels]

Also is hfboards starting a "Is the myth dead?" meme? In the vein of a "roaring back" or "village burning" one, 3 threads right now.