What county is each team's home?

[BoHorvat 53]

I guess Vancouver=Downtown?

 

[Hot Water Bottle]

Anyway, geography trivia aside, what exactly are you asking, OP? The county in which a team's stadium is located, the county in which a team's offices and/or headquarters are located, the contiguous blob of counties that would constitute the area where said team is considered "local," or a county by county breakdown of who roots for which team?

Well, I was originally asking which county the stadiums are located in. But this is uncovering a lot of other interesting info I didn't even expect, so I'm glad to hear all of it.

I'm guessing that most teams basically have a statewide fan base and the county breakdown of fans only really applies to the NY/LA area teams... if I'm assuming correctly?

Thanks for your very thoughtful post, by the way.

 

[PsYcNeT]

Edmonton plays in the Capital region.

That's the closest thing we have to a county.

The capital region is a loose nickname for about 9-10 different MDs, which includes the county of parkland, sturgeon count, leduc county, Sherwood park (unincorporated), county of westlock, county of barrhead etc.etc.etc.

Edmonton just plays in Edmonton.

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

Maybe for Canada we could go with ridings so....

So the Ottawa Senators would be in Carleton-Mississippi Mills! If they move to downtown Ottawa it would be Ottawa Centre

If we are to use ridings, we have federal and provincial ridings. So which one do we use to answer the question?

 

[A1LeafNation]

Toronto = Toronto Region
Ottawa = Ottawa Region

http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/mapRegion.jpg

 

[Mosby]

Coyotes plays in Glendale, AZ, which is part of Maricopa County

 

[General Zodd]

The concept of counties comes from the British.

The concept of parishes comes from the French, which is why Louisiana has parishes instead of counties, and why St. Louis is not in a county.

Canada doesn't have counties because the Eskimos didn't believe in counties.

Actually that is not quite true. I live in the GTA and there is such a thing as "Durham County" which is just east of us. Most areas don't use counties but I know of Renfrew County (Ottawa Valley) & Price Edward County around Trenton.

Here in Canada counties are/were political divisions. Toronto was originally in the County of York but was then in 1957 amalgamated into Metropolitan Toronto. Most places are Regional Municipalities now. For example York County became the Regional Municipality of York but most people refer to it as "York Region".

Toronto is not in a county per se but is the equivalent to a county.

 

[General Zodd]

The capital region is a loose nickname for about 9-10 different MDs, which includes the county of parkland, sturgeon count, leduc county, Sherwood park (unincorporated), county of westlock, county of barrhead etc.etc.etc.

Edmonton just plays in Edmonton.

Try Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton!

 

[Diamondillium]

As a rural Albertan who hasn't been around Canada much, I was quite surprised to find out that many provinces don't have countys. I just figured it would have been something pretty consistent across the country.

The more you know.

 

[pb1300]

Panthers play in Broward County.

 

[Laggin70]

Pittsburgh Penguins-Allegheny county

 

[Derp Kassian]

Vancouver is downtown

 

[jpchabby]

Being a french canadian, I have trouble understanding most of the words you guys are saying... and I speak english very well... I just don't know what the different words mean, like County, Parishes and such.

Right now the Bell Centre is located Downtown, but before, the Montreal Forum was really close to Verdun (if not IN Verdun), which is a city-within-a-city, in south west Montreal.

 

[TrillMike]

Dallas, Dallas County. Lol.

 

[LuckyPierre]

Interestingly, there are two states without counties-- Louisiana and Alaska. The former having parishes and the latter boroughs. They serve the same function, however, and I believe the distinction is entirely one of nomenclature. Similar to, I suppose Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia being "Commonwealths" instead of states.

Anyway, geography trivia aside, what exactly are you asking, OP? The county in which a team's stadium is located, the county in which a team's offices and/or headquarters are located, the contiguous blob of counties that would constitute the area where said team is considered "local," or a county by county breakdown of who roots for which team?

Another geography tidbit. Several teams do not play in the city for which they are named--

Arizona- (formerly) While known as "Phoenix" from 1996 to 2014, the Coyotes only played in the city until 2003. Since then, they've played in the suburb of Glendale, which eventually prompted the name change.

Carolina- Technically neither a city nor a state. Like the Carolina Panthers (who play in Charlotte,) the Hurricanes were given the "Carolina" name to appeal to fans in both North Carolina and South Carolina. But "Carolina" is essentially meaningless to people in the area. The two together are colloquially "the Carolinas" and if you're in the south, people care about their distinctions. North Cackalacky and South Cackalacky don't always get along so good, as I was once told. I don't have a source on this, but I imagine billing themselves as from "Carolina" allows the Hurricanes name to make more sense. Hurricanes are frequent occurrences in both NC and SC, but Raleigh (home to the Hurricanes) is only occasionally subject to significant damage.

Ottawa- The Senators play in Kanata, not Ottawa proper.

Tampa Bay- A technicality. Tampa Bay is a body of water, and a nickname for the region akin to the San Francisco Bay Area. It usually refers to the cities of Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg. The Buccaneers and the Rays both call themselves "Tampa Bay" as well. The Lightning play in Tampa, and had originally tried to secure "Florida" when entering the name. They were denied, I believe based on the significant geographic and cultural differences between the various regions of Florida. (Same reason there are no teams simply from "California" anymore. It's just too big of an area, with too many cities that could lay claim to the name.) A few years later, the Panthers tried the same thing, but got their way on the basis that the Florida Panther is an actual animal. The Lightning were not happy about this. Ostensibly, if their claim had been denied, we'd have the Miami Panthers. (The Panthers played in Miami for their first five years of existence.) It'd be interesting to see if, in that case, if today the "Miami" Panthers tried to change their name to "Florida" as the Coyotes did (since the Panthers play in Sunrise, not Miami anymore) how that would all shake out and if the Lightning would even put up a fight anymore.

Yes and no on the bolded, geographically speaking.

The Senators moved from Lansdowne in Ottawa proper to the Palladium site in Kanata in 1996. At that point, the Senators were located in the city of Kanata.

In 2001, however, Kanata (and other satellite cities to the south and east) amalgamated with Ottawa to form a unified, larger city.

So for all but 1996-2001, the Senators have technically been playing in Ottawa.

Edit: The arena, hilariously enough, is still on the absolute outer western limit of visible development on the highway, even roughly 20 years after the build. When you pass it to the west, you hit the city dump, and 30 minutes of forested valley landscape.

 

[Hot Water Bottle]

Being a french canadian, I have trouble understanding most of the words you guys are saying... and I speak english very well... I just don't know what the different words mean, like County, Parishes and such.

Right now the Bell Centre is located Downtown, but before, the Montreal Forum was really close to Verdun (if not IN Verdun), which is a city-within-a-city, in south west Montreal.

I think in Quebec, counties are known as
"municipalité régionale de comté" (MRC), is that correct?

 

[Skrudland]

Saskatchewan has Municipalities and Rural Municipalities. It doesn't, however, have any NHL teams so I suppose it doesn't matter.

OC..

 

[who_me?]

Being a french canadian, I have trouble understanding most of the words you guys are saying... and I speak english very well... I just don't know what the different words mean, like County, Parishes and such.

Counties were traditionally governed by English Common Law.

Parishes were governed by Napoleonic Law.

Not sure what law the Eskimos went by.

 

[Gordie07]

Ottawa is in what was traditionally the county of Carleton.

 

[Twisted Blue]

Blues: St. Louis County, MO. So creative

Funny how I never thought of the St. Louis City as part of St. Louis County. Guess I had a mental block due to the crime statistics.

 

[icKx]

Detroit, Wayne County

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Ones I know off the top of my head...
Pittsburgh - Allegheny County
Buffalo - Erie County
Los Angeles - Los Angeles County
Anaheim - Orange County
San Jose - Santa Clara County
NY Rangers - New York County
NY Islanders - Nassau County
Boston - Suffolk County
Florida - Broward County
Detroit - Wayne County
Arizona - Maricopa County
Denver - Denver County
Dallas - Dallas County

 

[CrypTic]

Well, I was originally asking which county the stadiums are located in. But this is uncovering a lot of other interesting info I didn't even expect, so I'm glad to hear all of it.

I'm guessing that most teams basically have a statewide fan base and the county breakdown of fans only really applies to the NY/LA area teams... if I'm assuming correctly?

Thanks for your very thoughtful post, by the way.

I'm not sure about all teams but that would not apply to either the California teams, the Blackhawks, or the Blues. I don't think that Anaheim fans (Orange County, CA) like LA fans (Los Angeles County). I know that Sharks fans don't. Sharks fans tend to come from all over the Bay Area (San Francisco city, San Mateo County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, Solano County as well as Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, and probably Monterey County) and even into Sacramento (Sacramento County, probably San Joaquin County, possibly Stanislaus and Yolo Counties). I'd guess that San Diego and surrounding areas root for the Ducks but I'm not sure about that. But Orange County is close enough to LA that I'd guess there are Kings fans in OC and Ducks fans in LA county. I'm not sure which team residents of Riverside or San Bernadino Counties root for (in general) but I'd guess there are a lot of hockey fans there.

Southern Illinois, especially the area closest to St. Louis, would be more likely to root for the Blues than the Hawks. I'd guess that there are some Blues' fans throughout the state of Missouri but there don't seem to be that many outside of the larger St. Louis metro area (e.g., not many in SE MO, NE MO, Kansas City unless they are St. Louis transplants). I'd guess that Florida is divided and probably several other areas as well.

 

[startainfection*]

Rangers have most of the NYC boroughs and I'd say about 30% of the North Jersey counties like Bergen, Passaic, Essex. They have a fair bit of Connecticut, Fairfield county for sure

It'll be interesting to see how Brooklyn will accept the Islanders. Lot of young folks out there these days could win over some fans perhaps

This thread is about where the fans of the team are from, not the physical location of the arena?

Already 10k season tickets sold for the islanders at Barclays

 

[MoreOrr]

Only five provinces (all east of Manitoba) use counties as regional subdivisions, so the Western Canadian teams are all N/A.

British Columbia has Districts, which could serve for this thread. Manitoba also has Districts, doesn't it?