North Division smear still lives

[toewsintangibles]

Vegas is the team with the most Canadian players. Canadian teams can only beat teams from Canada or with the most Canadians on roster.

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[I know]

I think you are onto something here.

 

[CartographerNo611]

They are having a tough time finishing a team with 1 center and no power play so the smear ain’t that far off…

And yeah most teams are made of of Canadians, it’s just fun ribbing north division fans.

 

[Larry Hanson]

Vegas is the team with the most Canadian players. Canadian teams can only beat teams from Canada or with the most Canadians on roster.

42% of the players in the league are from Canada so odds are any team is going to have more players from Canada than anywhere else.

 

[Adrianopolous]

Brilliant insight

 

[BlueOil]

if a canadian franchise can't win, the canadians start taking credit for player nationality. happens every year when their pride gets hit.

 

[TheGreatOne11]

Vegas is the team with the most Canadian players. Canadian teams can only beat teams from Canada or with the most Canadians on roster.

So every team? Since 43% of the league is Canadian, meaning more often than not most teams have more Canadians than not.

 

[llamateizer]

That's why MAF was caught with high treason.

Nic Roy GWG is only a cover.

 

[Wondercarrot]

if a canadian franchise can't win, the canadians start taking credit for player nationality. happens every year when their pride gets hit.

95% of Canadians don’t give a single F if a Canadian franchise not from their city wins.

Think of it this way, do you cheer for the Hawks or Wings if St Louis is out?

 

[abo9]

I never understood this. Yeah... the Cup has not been won by a Canadian team since 93, but there's very little correlation between local/homegrown talent and where the players end up.

The Stanley Cup is an NHL award - which is irrespective of local talent, so I don't particularly care where it's won unless it's my team where I'll be extra happy.

And to make matters even more meaningless for the nationality stuff, each player has a day with the Cup and bring it in their own communities... so even if the Cup is won in Tampa, if I they have Quebec players on the roster, they'll bring them back around and I'll get to see the Cup/ take part in the festivities with them.

We should totally split the olympic teams by province/regions to get more tight tournaments though

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

>visit Canadian grocery store
>ask why milk comes in bags
>informed Canada hasn’t had a Cup since 1993

 

[WarriorofTime]

Isn't Tampa the team that's the least Canadian (or close to it)? Would make for a stupid yet amusing narrative in the SCF if it came to it.

 

[WarriorofTime]

I never understood this. Yeah... the Cup has not been won by a Canadian team since 93, but there's very little correlation between local/homegrown talent and where the players end up.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the players involved on Stanley Cup winners and where they come from.

It is in part statistical oddity (pick any random 6.5 teams that are grouped by something similar and say they will each go the next 27+ years without a Stanley Cup between them and you'd say that's highly unlikely), in part something worth having a chuckle about given how hockey rabid Canadian fans support Canadian franchises that keep mismanaging themselves into the salary cap era such that even when they do sprout up a lot talented rosters they've managed to squander it. Keep in mind this is in backdrop of some in the media or wherever deeming Canadian cities as inherently more worthy of NHL Franchises and claiming that franchises in "non-traditional" markets shouldn't exist or should be relocated.

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

how many of these f***ing threads do we need?

 

[topshelf15]

Meh the North wasnt strong,who cares....Which division you came out of really doesnt matter at all ,the teams that are there deserve to be there

 

[Bounces R Way]

Can't believe I clicked on this

 

[jetsforever]

Said differently, either a Canadian team will win or a bunch of Canadian players will