Most Pressurized Environment - #4

[Pavel Buchnevich]

1-32, which environments surrounding the 32 franchises are the most pressurized. That can mean fans, ownership, media, prior history, location, players or anything you take the pressure of a hockey environment to mean.

1. Toronto Maple Leafs (59.6%)
2. Montreal Canadiens (80.5%)
3. Vancouver Canucks (53.7%)

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[Pavel Buchnevich]

I forgot Vegas in the last poll, and nearly forgot them again. My apologies to anyone who wanted to vote for them in the last poll.

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Gonna go with the Carolina Flames.​

 

[Boreal01]

Toss up between Edmonton and Calgary

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

Once you get passed Montreal and Toronto which are the clear high pressure markets in the league, I think it just goes by how good the team is.

Pressure exists when you have legitimate Stanley Cup expectations. It’s less about environment and more about expectations.

 

[Mobiandi]

Probably Philadelphia. I would hate to be an underperforming player in that environment

Don't get how Edmonton is winning the poll. There's virtually no pressure to win for them. Nothing but constant spin by the media that they're on the right track with the occasional hitpiece on an outgoing player or member of management

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Gonna go with the Carolina Flames.​

The first one is Flames, second is Hurricanes, but I'll hand over the reigns to you since you won't make any errors trying to juggle typing every remaining team without any errors.

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

The first one is Flames, second is Hurricanes, but I'll hand over the reigns to you since you won't make any errors trying to juggle typing every remaining team without any errors.

Sheesh man it ain’t that deep brother. Don’t take life so seriously. Cool Poll

 

[seancolorado]

Philly for sure

 

[biturbo19]

Probably Philadelphia. I would hate to be an underperforming player in that environment

Don't get how Edmonton is winning the poll. There's virtually no pressure to win for them. Nothing but constant spin by the media that they're on the right track with the occasional hitpiece on an outgoing player or member of management

Yeah. This is pretty much exactly my thinking. There's quite a bit of spotlight with Edmonton, but it's generally a fairly low pressure situation, with the bar set at basically, "don't suck to badly". There is a bit of a sort of "saviour complex" thing there, where if you're one of the many "1st overall pick" types, expectations have been kinda bonkers like you're going to turn the franchise around. But now that McDavid is there...that box is sort of ticked, and it's all on him now really. So for others, it's basically just a pressure to be kinda decent, and you'll be lauded.


Philly fans can get pretty nasty when they're unhappy. Be that a player, or the team as a whole underperforming. They seem to get loud about it too.

 

[Michael HOMERUNing]

Probably Philadelphia. I would hate to be an underperforming player in that environment

Don't get how Edmonton is winning the poll. There's virtually no pressure to win for them. Nothing but constant spin by the media that they're on the right track with the occasional hitpiece on an outgoing player or member of management

Literally none. For this poll I would go with either Philly or NYR just because its New York

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

If this isn’t over 50% for one choice after about a day, I’ll let it run into a second day.

 

[snipes]

Edmonton.

People are absolutely fanatical and obsessed about hockey in Alberta.