Ranking every Canadian NHL team by kilometres they'll travel this season | Offside (2024)

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Talk about going the distance! The most well-traveled team in the league is Edmonton's own Oilers.

Their most recent championship in 1992-93 also marks the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup. The. The Canadiens play their home games at the Bell Centre in Montreal and regularly sell out their stadium. The average attendance during the 2021/22 season was just under 15.5 thousand.

The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

The Blueshirts' 53 wins and 110 points are the most in the NHL.

Taking the top spot with an impressive overall index score of 2.84 out of 4, the Boston Bruins officially have the most loyal supporters in the NHL. This is thanks to the team's 100% average attendance, 5.6 million social media followers, and relatively strong engagement rate on Instagram (1.89%).

The NBA has the highest average travel distance (85,444) of all major leagues, with some teams and players travelling over 100,000 miles per season. However, none go further than the Portland Trail Blazers, who clock 130,548 miles during the regular season.

The Vancouver Canucks have been around for over 50 years, but a Stanley Cup continues to elude them. The Canucks and Sabres' Cup drought is officially at 52 seasons, which only trails the Toronto Maple Leafs' 55-year drought.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are the most popular Canadian NHL team in Canada, followed by the Edmonton Oilers (largely on the strength of the games greatest player in Connor McDavid) and the storied Montreal Canadiens are the third most popular Canadian-based NHL team.

Three of Canada's seven franchises — Vancouver, Ottawa and Winnipeg — have never won a Cup in their current incarnation, although Ottawa was a powerhouse in the early 20th century.

Canada has always had the most players and the best players, a combination of quality and quantity that has made the Canadians heavy favorites at every best-on-best tournament over the last two decades. Canada has the last two Olympic golds and three of the last four featuring NHL players.

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During the 2002 U.S. vs. Canada ice hockey match for women's gold, Canada won. However, at the World Championships, the rivalry has recently been dominated by the U.S. who have won 7 of the last 9 World Championships.

California and New York each contain the most NHL teams (3) out of any US state. The Boston Bruins joined the NHL in 1924, making them the first American team in the league. The Seattle Kracken are the newest team in the league and played their first game during the 2021-22 NHL season.

Gretzky is the leading career goal scorer, assist producer and point scorer in NHL history, and has more career assists than any other player has total points. He is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season, a feat he accomplished four times.

Dubbed 'The Great One', Gretzky set over 61 individual NHL records, and won 9 Hart Memorial Trophies and 4 Stanley Cup championships. The NHL's all-time point leader, Wayne Gretzky is the only player in NHL history to have his number retired league-wide.

According to the league's report, the Avs have now won 15 straight regular season games since finishing last season and beginning the new season. With the commanding win over the Isles on Tuesday night, the Avs broke the record the Buffalo Sabres had set and held since 2006 with its 14 straight road wins.

57 players on NHL opening night rosters (plus injured reserve) come from the Greater Toronto Area — almost two and a half times as many as any other place. On a per capita basis, the Greater Toronto area produces more than 1 NHLer per 100,000 residents, greater than all but 2 cities in the top 10 overall.

Producing the largest amount of American-born National Hockey League talent has long been part of the lore of Minnesota hockey. Minnesota has produced nearly 60 more NHL players than the next closest state, Massachusetts, and nearly 100 more than the third place state of Michigan.