StreetHawk
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- Sep 30, 2017
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In an ideal world, you'd like to see the 2-3 clubs that are close to each other work together on setting their home schedules so that teams when traveling can hit both (Edm/Cal, Sea/Van, Utah/Col, Fla/TB, California, etc.) all on 1 trip when the head out.If anything I'm surprised the disparity in travel isn't even bigger, considering how concentrated NHL franchises are in the northeast:
That's simply where most people live in the US and Canada, and also where hockey is the most traditionally popular. The entire western half of America (and Canada) is very sparsely populated compared to the east, other than some higher population right on the Pacific coast - population heatmap below:
But, not always going to be the case.