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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
The time zone must play a big part of it. Are all voters in the East staying up to watch Kings games when they start at 10pm EST? Or PVR'ing the games and watching them the next day?
Probably not. They know he's good, but he definitely gets less exposure playing in the West.
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It's always been the argument, certainly for Iginla (although that was pure Quebecios bias) but back well into the 80's.
Probably a more representative list of all the teams or regions is in order to ensure proper and balanced voting, but good luck getting some of these guys out east and their massive egos to believe that there should be more equal representation. All that would do would be diluting their own vote and thus diluting their feeling of self-importance that they have granted themselves as supposed "stewarts" for the game/protecting integrity, or whatever they like to call themselves to make them feel better.
Just looked...teams like Calgary have 7 members, teams like ANA, Carolina have 3 or 4, Dallas has 1, Bos/TOR/MTL have 15+ each...but not just sunbelt teams get low rep, an O6 team in Chicago has only 5.
http://www.thephwa.com/page/show/110...idual-chapters