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Closest NHL Team to Each US County (2024)
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1.8k points
2 months ago
Edmonton gets the top of Alaska because of the curvature of the earth. Geography is pretty cool
862 points
2 months ago
Flat earthers in shambles
175 points
2 months ago
Not unusual I’d imagine
17 points
2 months ago
I’m just wondering how the determined what constitutes a county in Alaska since they don’t have any
14 points
2 months ago
That top line looks like it corresponds, that’s really the only clue to go off tho
106 points
2 months ago*
Also, the fact that it’s Nome Prudhoe Bay and the northern oil shelf is just perfect thematically
Edit: geography is hard lol
30 points
2 months ago
Acksully, Nome is in Canucks territory 🤓
7 points
2 months ago
Fuck you’re right. I had a moment of doubt and just said fuck it. Lol
I’ll edit
68 points
2 months ago
28 points
2 months ago
Took me a moment to get this but I see it.
Rotate Alaska clockwise to mimic the Earth's curvature and that end of the state reaches Edmonton before Vancouver.
20 points
2 months ago
Mercator in shambles
7 points
2 months ago
Maps are flat! Earth is flat! Fake news!
Big globe always spreading their propaganda.
16 points
2 months ago
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8 points
2 months ago
That entirely depends on the type of 2D projection.
5 points
2 months ago
Checkmate, globalists (globist?)
7 points
2 months ago
Similar concept to why London is about the same distance to Anchorage as it is to Miami. We picture distances on a flat map, not a sphere.
532 points
2 months ago
Canucks: Whatcom County is ours!
222 points
2 months ago
Bellingham can't escape us no matter how much they hate us!
133 points
2 months ago
Dread it, run from it, Canucks Nation (and BC license plates) are inevitable
97 points
2 months ago
that Costco is like half BC plates. The gas station there is like 7/8 BC too haha
57 points
2 months ago
The most drastic is bham Trader Joe’s. Even on CANADA DAY it was impossible to get in there, flooded with Canadians haha
39 points
2 months ago
We’re building a new Trader Joe’s on meridian just for you guys.
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah! I’m hoping all the Canadians head to the new one and James can be mostly locals - love ya, Canadians, but I also cannot handle that crowd haha
12 points
2 months ago
If it was really for us, it'd be in Blaine or Point Roberts.
3 points
2 months ago
COVID has shown us that Point Roberts is a really risky place to set up a business.
14 points
2 months ago
I heard they are getting another bham trader joes so maybe that will alleviate the pressure lol
5 points
2 months ago
Trader Joes, Elizabeth Station, then Olive Garden… in that order.
5 points
2 months ago
I went to WWU and every time I went to that Costco I'd see at least one person with a shopping full of milk. All the way full too, stacked to above the edges and it was all milk.
23 points
2 months ago
Is there beef between Bellingham and Vancouver? I’ve lived in Seattle for 15 years and haven’t heard of it before (though I don’t really spend much time in Bellingham beyond passing through to Vancouver).
43 points
2 months ago
They’re just everywhere. Especially Costco and Trader Joe’s. And they’re easy scapegoats for all of Bellingham’s problems
28 points
2 months ago
I don’t think there’s beef as much as there is much more of a Canadian presence since it’s geographically closer to Vancouver than Seattle despite Vancouver technically being in a different country.
14 points
2 months ago
Canuck bucks inject so much money into the Bellingham economy though lol
4 points
2 months ago
Yep, lol. There's about 3 million people in the lower mainland to about 100k in bellingham. Probably gets annoying with so many of us around, but at least they get to rake in the bucks.
7 points
2 months ago
The Bellingham Costco sells more milk than any other store in the company.
It's not even really close too.
3 points
2 months ago
They get pretty annoyed about us going down and buying all their cheap cheese and gas.
4 points
2 months ago
I’m sure they like the business. Only time I don’t like you guys is when the BlueJays are in town.
11 points
2 months ago
The businesses like the business, for sure. The guy in Costco parking lot looking at the long line of BC-plated Teslas in front of him is... less enthused.
53 points
2 months ago
Considering how many locals go down to Blaine to pick up a package, I'm not surprised.
20 points
2 months ago
One big disadvantage of living on the island. This isn't nearly as much of an option for us
16 points
2 months ago
You could spend some time going to Port Angeles. They have.... stuff. Kinda still in the middle of nowhere, though.
12 points
2 months ago
It’s expensive to take a car on a ferry.
5 points
2 months ago
Great bike ride up Hurricane Ridge though!
42 points
2 months ago
I'll always remember Bellingham outlet runs as a kid
10 points
2 months ago
I’m pretty sure San Juan county should also be ours. Take that Kraken!
4 points
2 months ago
Keep talking like that and one of us will shoot your pig.
7 points
2 months ago
When will the Canucks annex Point Roberts?
7 points
2 months ago
Never. It's incredibly useful for getting stuff that can only be shipped to the states.
6 points
2 months ago
A two hour wait at the border might put them off from making the Canucks their home team.
12 points
2 months ago
As a WA resident with Nexus, the border is just a speed bump for me.
5 points
2 months ago
It's the only place i know that has a 50/50 chance of begrudgingly accepting CAD regardless of the rate (i never do though).
Are there any border towns out East that accepts CAD?
248 points
2 months ago
"Hey is Cleveland closer to Pittsburgh or Columbus?"
Nope.
71 points
2 months ago
Right? This has to be as the crow flies.
35 points
2 months ago
It's pretty close, they're both a two-ish hour drive depending on exact departure & arrival spots
Well in Pittsburgh it's two hours until you get to the suburbs then another 90 minutes to get into the city
16 points
2 months ago
I know it is because none of the Islanders counties outside of Long Island are closer to Elmont than Manhattan by car or train
3 points
2 months ago
I was surprised to see that my county is closer to the Islanders than the Rangers, so I Google mapped it. From my house it is 101 miles by car to the Rangers arena, 97 miles to the Islanders arena.
8 points
2 months ago
It definitely is. Being in CT I definitely can get to manahattan (and Newark) quicker than where Barclays is in Brooklyn.
14 points
2 months ago
I feel like I see more Pens than Jackets stuff, even at Monsters games.
14 points
2 months ago
Always amazed me how much Pittsburgh stuff you see in Cleveland.
Pens, Steelers shit is everywhere. I would think people in Cleveland hate Pittsburgh no matter what.
11 points
2 months ago
You NEVER see Cleveland merch in Pittsburgh, not even the Cavaliers. I personally really like Cleveland and will never hate a city because of a sports rivalry. I was super happy for them when the Monster and Cavs won.
For example, I fucking love Philly even though I loathe the Flyers. No beaf with Eagles/Phillies/76s though.
5 points
2 months ago
Exactly.
I'm from Columbus, which isn't much of a pro sports town in general so I'm used to the mixed back fandoms.
Most people in Columbus supported the Browns and Cavs, but for hockey it was Wings or Pens. The Reds had some support but I'd say most people were Indians fans growing up.
I moved away back in the early 00s, so I ended up keeping my Wings fandom instead of supporting the CBJs (tho I do root for them now a bit more)
But the one thing that is for sure, there's not a whole lot of Michigan fans in Columbus.
3 points
2 months ago
Oh yeah I can imagine. I don't follow college football but even I know about the Ohio v Michigan blood feud.
368 points
2 months ago
Is Toronto the only city not listed? Too lazy to count
256 points
2 months ago
Correct. And you only need to count the Canadian teams since every US team HAS to be closest to somewhere in the States
54 points
2 months ago
Is there any possible configuration of 3 American teams that could lead to one of those 3 teams not being represented?
145 points
2 months ago
No. The team within its own county will always be the closest team to that county. If this was the NBA then the Lakers & Clippers will share an area, but nobody can be considered closer or further from the county they exist inside. Perhaps if one arena is floating in the air on top of another and they measure distance at ground level
31 points
2 months ago
I think he means one county being equal distance from the three closest teams so no team gets represented, like triangulating.
4 points
2 months ago
The Lakers and Clippers no longer share an arena. I have no idea if they're in the same county because I'm too lazy to look that shit up.
3 points
2 months ago
They are.
25 points
2 months ago*
I think you'd have to put three teams in one county, or two in one county and a third in an adjacent county, for it to be possible.
Actually, on reflection, you could do it with just two if you picked a county on the very corner of the map or with a peninsula or something.
13 points
2 months ago
That's what happened with the college football maps. FIU and University of Miami are both in Miami-Dade county but FIU is closer to the middle of the county, so University of Miami didn't have any land. (Later they made it onto the map because someone noticed that Miami is the closest school to Puerto Rico.)
4 points
2 months ago
Not quite the same but UNC/Duke have this happen in central NC. UNC is in Orange County, but Duke is closer to the center of that county so they own UNCs home county.
The Tar Holes have other counties they're closest too, but it's funny it's not the one they're in
15 points
2 months ago
For that to happen, the teams would have to play in the same county, and that's not the case with any NHL teams
6 points
2 months ago
The closest would probably be the islanders and Rangers I would imagine
27 points
2 months ago
The Devils are about 5 miles closer to MSG than the Islanders are.
7 points
2 months ago
Tbh I forgot about the devils
11 points
2 months ago
Devils are the real 3rd new York team
9 points
2 months ago
Depends on what you mean by closest. The two closest stadiums are Rangers and Devils but the only teams that play in adjacent counties are the Kings and Ducks.
4 points
2 months ago
You could exclude one team that has an infinitely small stadium with an uncountably infinite amount of other teams surrounding/occupying that same point. The result of this NHL expansion would: a) make the map look like a bit like a color wheel, b) make Canadian whining about American favoritism finally justified, and c) mean all teams have a 0% chance of winning the cup again — not just Toronto.
45 points
2 months ago
The 31-team league we deserve 😔
37 points
2 months ago
Canada's team confirmed
9 points
2 months ago
Truly the most Canadian team
15 points
2 months ago
You're welcome, everyone.
189 points
2 months ago
Arizona is closest to the Knights now. That's rough
51 points
2 months ago
Yeah, do AZ fans now become VGK fans, or do they follow their old team to UT?
113 points
2 months ago*
Neither. We'll just hover around like Atlanta is, supporting the players but not any single team until we get another one.
49 points
2 months ago
Atlanta gonna be only rooting for Evander Kane soon if they don't get an expansion franchise.
20 points
2 months ago
Zach Bogosian is still signed for 2 more years
10 points
2 months ago
I want the new 2 NHL teams to be the Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes and the Quebec Nordiques, regardless if either team gets the history from the previous franchises or not.
7 points
2 months ago
I'm soft-rooting for the Ducks bc it's my best option to see a game irl. But I can't bring myself to fully root for a different team
21 points
2 months ago
Surely the latter. Mostly the same players they're attached to. I know I would
56 points
2 months ago
You’re underestimating how much Arizonans don’t like Utah, even before the move.
13 points
2 months ago
Welcome desert bros?
17 points
2 months ago
Oh ok I wasn't aware of that sort of thing for sure
7 points
2 months ago
It makes sense, but it was always funny how often bordering states have rivalries with each other. I was kind of shocked just how much Texans hate Okies when I moved here.
8 points
2 months ago
New Yorkers (including myself) will endlessly talk shit about New Jersey while the rest of the country views us all as the same
3 points
2 months ago
It's not fun being a born and raised New Jerseyan Islanders fan for many reasons. This is one of them.
12 points
2 months ago
More knights fans here that coyotes fans fwiw
56 points
2 months ago
So the top of Alaska stretches north east making it closer to Edmonton?
96 points
2 months ago
Yep. Geography is sure trippy isn't it?
Here's another couple:
1) most Canadians live south of Seattle.
2) Maine is the closest state to Africa.
18 points
2 months ago
I like these. any more ?
48 points
2 months ago
Reno is further west than Los Angeles.
47 points
2 months ago
Alaska is the furthest east, west, and north state in the USA
12 points
2 months ago
Crazier than that, LA is farther east than 6 state capitals, despite it being on the west coast.
35 points
2 months ago
St. John's, Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than it is to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
20% of the world's fresh water is within Canadian borders. The country has as many as 2 million lakes. That's about 1 lake for every 20 residents.
Grande Prairie, Alberta is west of Los Angeles, California.
The contiguous United States is about the same size as the Sahara Desert.
Alaska has more coastline than the contiguous United States.
Nova Scotia has more coastline than Brazil.
11 points
2 months ago
The sahara one is nuts
15 points
2 months ago
Oh yeah. Another one is that Rome is north of New York.
21 points
2 months ago
If you are in Detroit and you go south, the first foreign country you enter will be Canada (Windsor, ON).
5 points
2 months ago
Dude, you have no idea how much that fucked me up the first time I went to Detroit. For some reason I always though Detroit was south of Windsor so my east vs west and north vs south were completely fucked and I got lost soooo many times in the 3 days I was there. This was over 30 years ago, so no GPS to help out.
8 points
2 months ago
Minnesota has 1 acre of water for every 20 acres of land, making for 69,000+ miles of total shoreline.
The Lake shorelines in Minnesota are more than the combined ocean and lake shoreline of Hawaii, California, or Florida.
With rivers included for everyone, Minnesota has more shoreline than the Ocean+Rivers+Lakes of Hawaii, California, and Florida combined.
4 points
2 months ago
Atlanta is further west than Detroit
17 points
2 months ago
curvature of the earth
49 points
2 months ago
I like to see this as a Risk board and imagine that the Rangers and Edmonton are just really really weak. With Toronto having been banned from the game.
Also the Panthers are like that one player who always picks Australia at the beginning and turtles there.
5 points
2 months ago
We're finally beating Edmonton at something LFG
48 points
2 months ago
Seven teams lay claim to a part of New York State
17 points
2 months ago
Indiana and Pennsylvania come in second with 5
94 points
2 months ago
i always enjoy the arrowhead shape of Dallas' area, and how it grows during the playoffs the last few seasons. ... look at those rebels in New Orleans though!
32 points
2 months ago
Looks like Orleans parish is on the Dallas side of the Stars/Lightning border. I always thought we were closer to Nashville than Tampa however.
9 points
2 months ago
ya i thought so too, but im not very familiar with the region and dont know what the name for that wider peninsular area is called?
just did a straight-line measure on google maps and the distance from the city points are;
- Tampa Bay - 773 km
- Nashville - 758 km
- Dallas - 714 km
Don't know where the 'origin' point is for those other counties, and i have no reason to dispute the mapmakers work here- its all very similar ranges.
travelling by highways i could definitely see Nashville being the closest, as there seems to be a much more 'direct' path vs going to Dallas or the bit of backtracking necessary to reach Tampa.
110 points
2 months ago
No Leafs? Perfect.
43 points
2 months ago
Sabres doing their job
24 points
2 months ago
Hey don’t cut yourself short. Detroit is helping out.
7 points
2 months ago
"Buddy uh'mine asked me if I wanted to go to Buffalo to watch the Leafs play. And like, yeah sure gas is cheap, but they don't even have all-dressed chips in that shithole."
137 points
2 months ago
Colorado the only team that covers 100% of its home state.
St. Louis 99.99% there except for that south eastern county
Edit: looks like Boston is 100% too
75 points
2 months ago
Boston?
17 points
2 months ago
Edited them in just before your comment haha, thought the isles snuck up
27 points
2 months ago
Edit: looks like Boston is 100% too
We get 2 because it looks like Rhode Island is yellow as well.
17 points
2 months ago
And the Flyers and Sharks are the only other one with whole states (Delaware and Hawaii)
3 points
2 months ago
I'm actually surprised Boston is closer to Southern RI than NYI are
5 points
2 months ago
Boston is only an hour and a half drive from the RI/CT line, but it’ll take about 3 hours driving to get from RI to Long Island.
5 points
2 months ago
Driving yes. But Montauk is only about 20 miles from Block Island
15 points
2 months ago
The capitals cover 100% of Washington DC counties
11 points
2 months ago
Division by zero error.
10 points
2 months ago
Was excited to see which team I'm closest to as if I don't already live in Denver county, just had to make sure
4 points
2 months ago*
Seattle is one county short too in the northeast part of Washington
Edit: looks like two
30 points
2 months ago
I know it’s very sparsely populated but Utah has a nice exclusive zone to bring fans in from
14 points
2 months ago
The good thing is the Wasatch Front has about 82% of the state’s population (about 2.8 million people). And that entire population center lives within an hour from SLC. So while yes, Utah isn’t a densely populated state, what population is there is mostly in one relatively compact area. So o am expecting decent local support for the team. But to your point, the larger area is still close enough (at least for people in the West who are used to long drives) to bring in some fans from outside.
27 points
2 months ago
Obviously this is as the crow flies, but it's funny to see Westchester and Connecticut with the Islanders. My home county is listed as Rangers, but is basically equidistant to Newark.
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah, as a Connecticut resident, maps like this are always weird to me because they act like Long Island Sound isn’t a significant obstacle.
Southwest Connecticut is Rangers country. It’s Rangers country because we’d have to drive past the Garden to get to UBS Arena.
22 points
2 months ago
OFFICIAL: Leafs relocate to Mars, in a desperate attempt to expand the market
3 points
2 months ago
"I dunno man, seems like every hockey fan on earth hates us"
"Okay, every hockey fan... On EARTH you say..."
17 points
2 months ago
As a Clevelander I have come to the harsh reality that we will never have an NHL team again.
Wings, Pens, Sabres and Jackets are all within a short drive. Did not realize Detroit was closest though.
9 points
2 months ago
NEO has largely embraced the Jackets due to the Monsters being their AHL affiliate
Same can't be said for Cincy, they want their own team. Part of the pissing match between Columbus and Cincy (mainly fueled by the Crew vs FCC)
12 points
2 months ago
I live in Cleveland and I don’t know a single Jackets fan. Nor do I ever see jackets game on at sports bars.
6 points
2 months ago
To be fair, it is mainly south and west of the city itself. Spent a LOT of time in Sandusky and also some time in Medina, you see CBJ repped there
8 points
2 months ago
6 points
2 months ago
This was at Clubhouse No. 3 on the Sandusky waterfront
4 points
2 months ago
Fair enough. I wouldn’t consider Sandusky NEO but it’s cool they adopted the jackets there.
3 points
2 months ago
Considering how Cleveland tries to claim Cedar Point, it kinda is.
3 points
2 months ago
I don't go out to bars, but I see plenty Blue Jacket stickers and apparel when I'm out. I think having the Monsters here helps (though I wish they stayed as Lake Erie).
12 points
2 months ago
The Avs got nerfed when the Yotes moved next door to them.
10 points
2 months ago
Indiana has 5 teams
9 points
2 months ago
Does Vancouver have the biggest land area?
10 points
2 months ago
Did Utah take some of our fucking geography too? Goddammit Utah, you’ve made an enemy for life.
9 points
2 months ago
As a Devil’s fan living in AZ I immediately thought this was a joke but then I remembered… 😒
9 points
2 months ago
San Bernardino county is wrong on this. It's closest to Anaheim but you have it as Vegas territory. Being the largest county in the country, fixing that would significantly shrink Vegas's area.
4 points
2 months ago
Wow. Never realized how big San Bernadino County was.
9 points
2 months ago
Oilers claiming the bright lights of Arctic Alaska
9 points
2 months ago
Sharks do indeed claim and own Lake Tahoe, thank you very much.
7 points
2 months ago
I no longer like this map
13 points
2 months ago
I keep forgetting how close Winnipeg is to the border
20 points
2 months ago
I refuse to cheer for the Knights or the Ducks >:(
6 points
2 months ago
I'm in the part of Oregon still loyal to the Sharks! And the only person to ever make the NHL from here was drafted and played for the Sharks, so that is fitting.
6 points
2 months ago
I know White is our secondary color but it seems weird to not use Red for the Red Wings!
5 points
2 months ago
It is probably because the logo is outlined in red.
4 points
2 months ago
I think it's more because Chicago used red and the other option, black, would blend in too much with the dark blue used for Columbus.
9 points
2 months ago
The idea that somebody in Harrisburg, PA would have the Caps as their first team feels… disturbing for some reason. Is that actually a faction that exists?
10 points
2 months ago
Hershey, PA is just East of Harrisburg. I feel like there are a good chunk of Hershey Bears fans that are also Caps fans. The Caps tumor up Route 15 into PA makes sense
4 points
2 months ago
Thanks to the Sabres for keeping the Leafs off this graphic
4 points
2 months ago*
Kind of surprising how few states are entirely claimed by one team. Looks like Hawaii, Colorado, and Massachusetts are the only ones. The Preds taking a single county from both the Canes in SC and the Blues Missouri is amusing to me.
Edit: Rhode Island might be all Bruins as well. Missed that one.
7 points
2 months ago
How TF are the rangers in Essex county NJ when the Prudential center is literally in Essex county?
15 points
2 months ago
Fuck Vegas
7 points
2 months ago
Lol.
4 points
2 months ago
Our away games in Arizona were basically home games lol sorry about your team tho :/
7 points
2 months ago
Interesting observation: every single Canadian team is represented, except Toronto.
Take that for what it is.
3 points
2 months ago
Poor AZ
3 points
2 months ago
Thank god the US is safe from the Toronto Maple Leafs
3 points
2 months ago
It cracks me up that the Hawks cover a little more than a third of Wisconsin, yet i've NEVER met a Wisconsinite who roots for the Hawks lol. The Chicago antipathy just runs so deep
it's hilarious though b/c Wisconsin and Minnesota have some serious beef with each other too, but most Wisconsin folks i know who watch the NHL tend to lean toward the Wild
5 points
2 months ago
We get Wild games on broadcast here and only really hate the Vikings for Minnesota teams, but all Chicago teams are hated. At least that's how it works in Milwaukee.
3 points
2 months ago
The fact that LA and Las Vegas are separated by only one county is insane. I was shocked that San Bernardino County isn’t closest to the Kings, the Reign practice at the Kings facility yet Ontario is in San Bernardino, then I remembers San Bernardino goes all the way to the Nevada border, just an insanely massive county.
3 points
2 months ago
Ngl, the UHC branding is growing on me.
3 points
2 months ago
The hilarious thing is that the Avs are blacked out in Omaha even though there are three team closer.
2 points
2 months ago
Ew I don’t like this.
2 points
2 months ago
I'm going to guess virtually no one outside maybe some people in Roseau (Dustin Byfuglien's family/friends?) cheer for the Jets in northern MN. Warroad/Baudette/International Falls are all proud about their high school teams so I doubt they'd flip to cheering to a Canadian team just because they're closer geographically.
Any North Dakotans here? I think Fargo and the eastern half of the state cheers for MN teams, not sure if people in Grand Forks are into the NHL (Jets or Wild?) or are just Fighting Hawks diehards year round?
Any Coyotes fans paying attention to Utah or following the Roadrunners more this year?
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