Who’s on your 10 team no-trade list?

[Mobiandi]

Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Edmonton, Minnesota, NYI, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Utah, Winnipeg

Dead-end teams in undesirable locations

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

I want a 17 team list so I can include as many freezin northern teams as possible ffs.

Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Minnesota, Buffalo, both New York teams, New Jersey, Philly, Pittsburgh, Boston and Washington.

I'll only freeze my ass off for family

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Literally just basing this on where I wouldn’t want to live during the hockey season.

Edm
Cgy
Ott
Mtl
Clb
Pit
Min
Det
Buf
Wpg

If we made it 15 then I’d add the 3 NYC area teams, Phi, Sjs

 

[Frank Drebin]

I want out of the snow

 

[jetsforever]

Interesting that Colorado is the least disliked city, although it does make some sense

 

[Nicko999]

If I were to look at it from an unbias multi millionaire perspective. It would be the 7 Canadian clubs and the 3 California ones.

 

[Puckstuff]

I haven’t been there recently so this is totally based on perception but I heard NY and Chicago have terrible crime.

 

[digmor crusher]

I just picked 10 big city American teams, I have no intention of stepping foot in the USA.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Entirely fair. I think the current state of Calgary's team is precarious at best. And playing with McDavey and Drats does give you a real shot at a Cup. But i've seen a lot of "well the weather is awful" with Calgary that equates it with like...Edmonton and Winnipeg, that isn't entirely accurate.

Calgary's weather isn't that different than Edmonton ....when it's -30 in Edmonton, it's -27 in Calgary
I mean, today for example is a 3 degree difference FFS

also, Calgary is notorious for getting earlier snowfalls due to higher elevation

 

[biturbo19]

Calgary's weather isn't that different than Edmonton ....when it's -30 in Edmonton, it's -27 in Calgary
I mean, today for example is a 3 degree difference FFS

also, Calgary is notorious for getting earlier snowfalls due to higher elevation

As someone quite familiar with both cities, it absolutely is very different. Some days, the temperature may be similar...like today i guess. But the character of the winter weather overall is very different. Biggest thing is, Calgary tends to get all of it's snow in big dumps. Then it gets warmer and bright and sunny and most of it melts off the roads and sidewalks and whatnot. And then there are the Chinooks where it switches to like t-shirt weather for a day or two and the whole place thaws out.

Whereas Edmonton remains more of a constantly frozen hellscape for the most part. There's an absolutely massive difference between the "swingy" weather of Calgary and an average of 88 snowy days per year, vs Edmonton that stays more frozen and dreary more often, with an average of 141 snow days per year. That's nearing double the "snowy days". That makes an enormous difference imo.

Not to mention that few degrees difference holds consistently over the average. That also makes a difference. But especially in the way Calgary gets more warmer days as a part of that. 'Cause let's be honest...-30 vs -27 barely makes a difference at that point, it's just bitter cold either way. But 0 and sunny vs -5 and flurries does make a big difference.


They're still absolutely both "winter weather" cities and there are gonna be days that just suck. Just saying, they get lumped in together a lot (also with Winnipeg), when they aren't actually that similar as an experience imo.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

As someone quite familiar with both cities, it absolutely is very different. Some days, the temperature may be similar...like today i guess. But the character of the winter weather overall is very different. Biggest thing is, Calgary tends to get all of it's snow in big dumps. Then it gets warmer and bright and sunny and most of it melts off the roads and sidewalks and whatnot. And then there are the Chinooks where it switches to like t-shirt weather for a day or two and the whole place thaws out.

Whereas Edmonton remains more of a constantly frozen hellscape for the most part. There's an absolutely massive difference between the "swingy" weather of Calgary and an average of 88 snowy days per year, vs Edmonton that stays more frozen and dreary more often, with an average of 141 snow days per year. That's nearing double the "snowy days". That makes an enormous difference imo.

Not to mention that few degrees difference holds consistently over the average. That also makes a difference. But especially in the way Calgary gets more warmer days as a part of that. 'Cause let's be honest...-30 vs -27 barely makes a difference at that point, it's just bitter cold either way. But 0 and sunny vs -5 and flurries does make a big difference.


They're still absolutely both "winter weather" cities and there are gonna be days that just suck. Just saying, they get lumped in together a lot (also with Winnipeg), when they aren't actually that similar as an experience imo.

I've lived in Alberta my entire life, have family in Calgary and visit there several times a year... and the whole "climate" thing between the 2 cities is extremely overrated...in terms of snow, yes Edmonton on average gets more snow (which attributes to the much more brown, tree-less hellscape that is Calgary in the summer...while Edmonton is much greener and lush)

and while you brag about "sunniest city", Edmonton is literally #2 on the list LOL....325 "sunny days" to Calgary's 333

Sunniest Canadian Cities

Canada has beautiful summers Canadians look forward to after a long winter. A list of the sunniest and least sunny places in Canada by Western Financial Group.

westernfinancialgroup.ca

as for temperature, let's look at this past November for example....when it was cold in Edmonton (Nov 21st-Nov 30th)....it was roughly as cold in Calgary...Calgary averaged a whopping 2 degrees warmer than Edmonton in November (colder at night)

Daily Data Report for November 2024 - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada

climate, past weather

climate.weather.gc.ca

Daily Data Report for November 2024 - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada

climate, past weather

climate.weather.gc.ca

 

[McFlash97]

Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Edmonton, Minnesota, NYI, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Utah, Winnipeg

Dead-end teams in undesirable locations

Dead end teams and Edmonton in the same sentence... gotta love the take there. I really need some of what your smoking this weekend

 

[McFlash97]

As someone quite familiar with both cities, it absolutely is very different. Some days, the temperature may be similar...like today i guess. But the character of the winter weather overall is very different. Biggest thing is, Calgary tends to get all of it's snow in big dumps. Then it gets warmer and bright and sunny and most of it melts off the roads and sidewalks and whatnot. And then there are the Chinooks where it switches to like t-shirt weather for a day or two and the whole place thaws out.

Whereas Edmonton remains more of a constantly frozen hellscape for the most part. There's an absolutely massive difference between the "swingy" weather of Calgary and an average of 88 snowy days per year, vs Edmonton that stays more frozen and dreary more often, with an average of 141 snow days per year. That's nearing double the "snowy days". That makes an enormous difference imo.

Not to mention that few degrees difference holds consistently over the average. That also makes a difference. But especially in the way Calgary gets more warmer days as a part of that. 'Cause let's be honest...-30 vs -27 barely makes a difference at that point, it's just bitter cold either way. But 0 and sunny vs -5 and flurries does make a big difference.


They're still absolutely both "winter weather" cities and there are gonna be days that just suck. Just saying, they get lumped in together a lot (also with Winnipeg), when they aren't actually that similar as an experience imo.

That's funny you say that. Lived in both cities. It snows earlier in Calgary, and melts later in Calgary from what I came across. The few extra warmer days in winter is such a moot point, it's not even noticeable. It's literally the same weather.

 

[Metroid]

Anaheim, Carolina, Dallas, Florida, LA, Nashville, San Jose, Tampa, Utah, Vegas.