NHL Miles 2017-18 Edition: Canucks travel 7th most miles

[Adarsh Sant]

2017 Super Schedule

Team	2017-18 Miles	2017-18 B2B	2016-17 Miles	2016-17 B2B	2015-16 Miles	2015-16 B2B
Colorado Avalanche	48,639	11	45,173	11	42,901	10
Calgary Flames	47,931	12	48,488	11	48,341	12
Chicago Blackhawks	47,926	17	35,746	14	39,332	13
Arizona Coyotes	46,856	13	47,869	13	40,504	15
Edmonton Oilers	46,815	11	49,272	10	49,401	9
Florida Panthers	44,395	15	41,435	15	41,891	14
Vancouver Canucks	44,285	10	45,782	16	45,711	13
Minnesota Wild	43,970	15	39,175	14	40,976	15
Dallas Stars	43,929	12	45,091	10	48,419	12
San Jose Sharks	43,457	14	48,872	16	50,362	14
Winnipeg Jets	43,296	9	34,397	16	42,380	12
St. Louis Blues	42,421	16	38,738	12	40,649	12
Nashville Predators	42,366	11	39,027	13	36,971	12
Las Vegas Golden Knights	42,128	12
Anaheim Ducks	42,032	11	44,121	14	44,653	11
Tampa Bay Lightning	41,719	13	42,042	16	40,974	13
Los Angeles Kings	39,915	14	45,742	16	43,750	13
Ottawa Senators	39,442	19	34,787	13	38,796	14
Boston Bruins	39,115	14	41,095	14	38,236	11
Carolina Hurricanes	38,394	18	37,804	16	41,558	16
New York Islanders	37,836	16	32,425	16	35,015	15
New York Rangers	37,622	11	36,986	16	36,089	17
Washington Capitals	37,351	14	43,303	14	35,487	13
Montreal Canadiens	37,087	14	39,050	15	39,947	16
Columbus Blue Jackets	36,486	17	33,239	19	37,602	18
Philadelphia Flyers	36,003	15	33,455	18	34,811	15
Toronto Maple Leafs	35,689	14	32,973	18	33,880	16
Detroit Red Wings	34,759	12	38,135	16	33,487	17
Buffalo Sabres	34,175	16	35,130	19	34,201	15
New Jersey Devils	34,052	16	32,945	18	36,271	12
Pittsburgh Penguins	34,041	19	33,388	15	33,660	17

 

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Some interesting notes:

• The average mileage per team is 40,778, up from last year’s 39,856.
• There’s a new top two! Colorado and Calgary, previously 3rd and 7th on the list, will be traveling the most miles this year. They replace Edmonton and San Jose, who held the top two spots for the last two years running.
• New Jersey remains near the bottom of the list. This year they are joined by Pittsburgh, who has the least amount of travel at 34,041 miles. Finally! A break for the Penguins!
• Don’t worry, the Penguins didn’t get it too easy. They are tied with the Senators for the most number of back-to-backs at 19.
• The Predators only have 11 back-to-backs, down from 13 last year, though they add 3,339 miles to their travel this year.
• The Capitals lose the most mileage this year, traveling 5,952 fewer miles than last year.
• The Blackhawks add the most mileage to their schedule this year, clocking in at 12,180 more than last year. Heh.
• Vegas travels 42,128 miles this year, which is right around the league average.

 

https://www.ontheforecheck.com/platform/amp/2017/6/27/15881964/nhl-travel-miles-the-2017-18-super-schedule

[Where's Wellwood]

Back to backs don't mean as much when the 2nd game could be a bus ride away. 

[Rob_Zepp]

3 minutes ago, Where's Wellwood said:

Back to backs don't mean as much when the 2nd game could be a bus ride away. 

Tell that to my knees.    B2B games suck for many reasons unrelated to travel.

[coolboarder]

It is an improvement but still lag behind.  I have done a road city destination study where the Canucks could get under 40k miles if the destination between cities is close, not out of way, or back and forth from east to west then back to east, example, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, to NY city or from Vancouver to Las Vegas to Chicago in the schedule.  Needs to cut it down and they could have at around 43 K.   Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal is not the best destination route, Toronto-Buffalo-Pittsburgh-Columbus-Detroit is better.   Ottawa-Montreal-Boston is better as it's farther northeast than Toronto and Boston is extremely closer to NY City area where they could play in the area for 4-6 days and still fly to Philadephia-Washington if they are playing a longest road trip of the season but is not taxing on their travel.   I mean, look at Vegas travel, 42K miles in the far west.    Also, they need to create a permanent destination grouping for example, Winnipeg-Minnesta or Toronto-Buffalo as given above.  The Alberta-Winnipeg trip twice in the season is a destination group I haven't thought of, well done, NHL

[milk and honey]

9 minutes ago, Where's Wellwood said:

Back to backs don't mean as much when the 2nd game could be a bus ride away. 

it does mean something to the body though but I do get what you mean.

[Cramarossa]

I wish they had mini-series  (for lack of a better term) like in the A: two or three games in a row against one team. Would cut down on travel and imo generate more interest. 

[Fanuck]

So, adding another team in their own division only saves us the yearly travel distance of a one way flight to San Jose approximately?   Seriously NHL, that's the best you could do???? 

[GB5]

Chicago must of pee'd in Bettman's Corn Flakes or something. They jump from well below average to well above average and have 17 back to back games.

 

As Seinfeld would say...."that's a shame"

[-AJ-]

I'd imagine we're probably in the top 10 every year.

[JM_]

nice to see the back to backs reduced significantly. Other than that, its life in the west as usual. I'm not sure how big a deal the air travel milage really is, these guys don't travel like we schmo's do. 

[JM_]

1 hour ago, Cramarossa said:

I wish they had mini-series  (for lack of a better term) like in the A: two or three games in a row against one team. Would cut down on travel and imo generate more interest. 

It would be interesting to be a bit more like baseball that way... two games in a row in ANA and then they come up here for 2 e.g. 

[Derp...]

10 back to back is really good. That means we have more consistent hockey throughout the schedule and less bulk portion, followed by breaks. Might mean less practise time, but more of a routine. It will be interesting to see how Green handles the limited practise window of the NHL. I know he likes to plan and prep as much as possible, but still needs to develop some of our guys.

All in all happy with the schedule. Don't think we are getting the short end of the stick to much, but really who wants the long end of a stick anyways? Never really got that saying. </rambling>

[Hortankin]

19 back to backs for the Pens and Sens. Wow

[IBatch]

Thanks for posting this, I think it might raise a few eyebrows. 

[apollo]

The schedule was made to ensure Sidney Crosby is handed a 3rd straight conn smythe! 

DOWN WITH THE OLD BOYS CLUB! 

 

(Relax, I know they're just closer to all their opponents than we are but still, league is fixed) 

[coolboarder]

Look at LA Kings, 39K miles for the whole year shows us that it's possible to travel on par with Eastern Conference teams if the NHL are smart and careful with the travel schedule for all Pacific division teams.   No more than 4 cross-Continental trip to Eastern time zone is the key with stop-over to Central division teams on the way home.   Also in the factor, more trip to Central division teams with games against Mountain time zone cities on the way back has knocked off the miles as well for LA road schedule..  

 

A lower miles equal fewer time spent on the plane.   It is not the number of games in a row on the road, it's the lower time spent on the plane, equal more time practice regardless number of games in a row on the road with no back to back games.    Let's say, if you are on 8 games road trip, you can go Ottawa, Montreal and still have practice time in between games with less than 30 minutes flight time and have a practice in the morning in other city, the same goes for time spent in the NYC area for 5-6 days and still have consistent practice time, than if you fly cross-Continental trip, you have no practice time at all.  Not to mention in CBA, a mandatory 4 days off in a month that is not included traveling.   Also while on the road, the players are entitled to time off for 9 hours while on the road when arriving at the hotel at the end of the day also factored in.

 

I understand that 5 road games in a row seems to be a limit but if longer than 6 games, it's taking a greater effect.  In my opinion, if going on more than 6 games, there should be no back to back games at all and allow flight time less than 30-45 minutes so that they could have some practice the next morning with no games scheduled if there is no back to back games.   W/hen I lived in DC area for a few years, I could not believe how easy is to travel from DC to NYC in around 40 minutes of flight time and I cannot imagine flight time from DC to Philadelphia, no more than 30 minutes and the same from Philadelphia to NYC or Newark airport.   So let's aim for air miles less than 40K miles at this point forward with no back to back games if greater than 6 games trip.

[Slegr]

That's all great to come in 7th, but throw preseason in there and I'm pretty sure we're #1. Going to Shanghai and Beijing ain't exactly a trip to the corner store.

[tas]

5 hours ago, coolboarder said:

Look at LA Kings, 39K miles for the whole year shows us that it's possible to travel on par with Eastern Conference teams if the NHL are smart and careful with the travel schedule for all Pacific division teams.   No more than 4 cross-Continental trip to Eastern time zone is the key with stop-over to Central division teams on the way home.   Also in the factor, more trip to Central division teams with games against Mountain time zone cities on the way back has knocked off the miles as well for LA road schedule..  

 

A lower miles equal fewer time spent on the plane.   It is not the number of games in a row on the road, it's the lower time spent on the plane, equal more time practice regardless number of games in a row on the road with no back to back games.    Let's say, if you are on 8 games road trip, you can go Ottawa, Montreal and still have practice time in between games with less than 30 minutes flight time and have a practice in the morning in other city, the same goes for time spent in the NYC area for 5-6 days and still have consistent practice time, than if you fly cross-Continental trip, you have no practice time at all.  Not to mention in CBA, a mandatory 4 days off in a month that is not included traveling.   Also while on the road, the players are entitled to time off for 9 hours while on the road when arriving at the hotel at the end of the day also factored in.

 

I understand that 5 road games in a row seems to be a limit but if longer than 6 games, it's taking a greater effect.  In my opinion, if going on more than 6 games, there should be no back to back games at all and allow flight time less than 30-45 minutes so that they could have some practice the next morning with no games scheduled if there is no back to back games.   W/hen I lived in DC area for a few years, I could not believe how easy is to travel from DC to NYC in around 40 minutes of flight time and I cannot imagine flight time from DC to Philadelphia, no more than 30 minutes and the same from Philadelphia to NYC or Newark airport.   So let's aim for air miles less than 40K miles at this point forward with no back to back games if greater than 6 games trip.

it's possible for la because 20% of their road games are against teams less than 400 miles away. 

[skolozsy2]

16 hours ago, coolboarder said:

Look at LA Kings, 39K miles for the whole year shows us that it's possible to travel on par with Eastern Conference teams if the NHL are smart and careful with the travel schedule for all Pacific division teams.   No more than 4 cross-Continental trip to Eastern time zone is the key with stop-over to Central division teams on the way home.   Also in the factor, more trip to Central division teams with games against Mountain time zone cities on the way back has knocked off the miles as well for LA road schedule..  

 

A lower miles equal fewer time spent on the plane.   It is not the number of games in a row on the road, it's the lower time spent on the plane, equal more time practice regardless number of games in a row on the road with no back to back games.    Let's say, if you are on 8 games road trip, you can go Ottawa, Montreal and still have practice time in between games with less than 30 minutes flight time and have a practice in the morning in other city, the same goes for time spent in the NYC area for 5-6 days and still have consistent practice time, than if you fly cross-Continental trip, you have no practice time at all.  Not to mention in CBA, a mandatory 4 days off in a month that is not included traveling.   Also while on the road, the players are entitled to time off for 9 hours while on the road when arriving at the hotel at the end of the day also factored in.

 

I understand that 5 road games in a row seems to be a limit but if longer than 6 games, it's taking a greater effect.  In my opinion, if going on more than 6 games, there should be no back to back games at all and allow flight time less than 30-45 minutes so that they could have some practice the next morning with no games scheduled if there is no back to back games.   W/hen I lived in DC area for a few years, I could not believe how easy is to travel from DC to NYC in around 40 minutes of flight time and I cannot imagine flight time from DC to Philadelphia, no more than 30 minutes and the same from Philadelphia to NYC or Newark airport.   So let's aim for air miles less than 40K miles at this point forward with no back to back games if greater than 6 games trip.

I understand what you're saying, and in theory, i completely agree.  But when you factor in all the other events each of these arenas are used for, making a fair and consistent schedule for everyone isnt really plausible.  Concerts, conventions, circus, other attractions, as well as most of the NHL teams in the US have buildings that are shared by an NBA team....these arenas are usually booked pretty solid.

 

The NHL would need the owners of the arenas to basically keep their calendars open until the scheduling was finished, then tell them to start filling in the dates for everything else.  Aint happening unfortunately. 

[R3aL]

On 2017-06-27 at 8:34 PM, Adarsh Sant said:

2017 Super Schedule

Team	2017-18 Miles	2017-18 B2B	2016-17 Miles	2016-17 B2B	2015-16 Miles	2015-16 B2B
Colorado Avalanche	48,639	11	45,173	11	42,901	10
Calgary Flames	47,931	12	48,488	11	48,341	12
Chicago Blackhawks	47,926	17	35,746	14	39,332	13
Arizona Coyotes	46,856	13	47,869	13	40,504	15
Edmonton Oilers	46,815	11	49,272	10	49,401	9
Florida Panthers	44,395	15	41,435	15	41,891	14
Vancouver Canucks	44,285	10	45,782	16	45,711	13
Minnesota Wild	43,970	15	39,175	14	40,976	15
Dallas Stars	43,929	12	45,091	10	48,419	12
San Jose Sharks	43,457	14	48,872	16	50,362	14
Winnipeg Jets	43,296	9	34,397	16	42,380	12
St. Louis Blues	42,421	16	38,738	12	40,649	12
Nashville Predators	42,366	11	39,027	13	36,971	12
Las Vegas Golden Knights	42,128	12
Anaheim Ducks	42,032	11	44,121	14	44,653	11
Tampa Bay Lightning	41,719	13	42,042	16	40,974	13
Los Angeles Kings	39,915	14	45,742	16	43,750	13
Ottawa Senators	39,442	19	34,787	13	38,796	14
Boston Bruins	39,115	14	41,095	14	38,236	11
Carolina Hurricanes	38,394	18	37,804	16	41,558	16
New York Islanders	37,836	16	32,425	16	35,015	15
New York Rangers	37,622	11	36,986	16	36,089	17
Washington Capitals	37,351	14	43,303	14	35,487	13
Montreal Canadiens	37,087	14	39,050	15	39,947	16
Columbus Blue Jackets	36,486	17	33,239	19	37,602	18
Philadelphia Flyers	36,003	15	33,455	18	34,811	15
Toronto Maple Leafs	35,689	14	32,973	18	33,880	16
Detroit Red Wings	34,759	12	38,135	16	33,487	17
Buffalo Sabres	34,175	16	35,130	19	34,201	15
New Jersey Devils	34,052	16	32,945	18	36,271	12
Pittsburgh Penguins	34,041	19	33,388	15	33,660	17

 

 

https://www.ontheforecheck.com/platform/amp/2017/6/27/15881964/nhl-travel-miles-the-2017-18-super-schedule

Well I'm impressed we aren't the most travelled . Win in my books