Within the surprise of none of us, the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins get some happy fans. Though the entire top 10 possesses its own surprises.

 

Would it not shock that you study that must be tricky committing your heart to rooting to the Phoenix Coyotes

 

Or it's far hard these days for one New York Islanders fan Or that winning your final Stanley Cup in 1967 offers established occasional moments of frustration for Toronto Maple Leafs fans

 

You know they don't, its no wonder that the foot of The Business Journals' Fan Difficulty Rankings on your NHL is not all that intriguing: It is a mix of teams with fan apathy Phoenix or terrible fortunes Islanders or humbling Cup droughts Leafs, Blues, Kings.

 

Additional fascinating, not less than for american: Who's it easy, consistent with their methodology Which fan bases provide the least difficulty in following their teams such as a cult through to the inevitable bitter end every single season not less than for 29 fan bases

 

 

That you think that would be the simplest plus much more hard teams as being a fan of during the NHL

 

The methodology from this research, via The Organization Journals, scaled like a 50/50 formula:

 

Ten-season record: 50 % of every team's score was to its efficiency over the past ten seasons. A team was awarded ten points per general championship more than that span, as well as six points every losing physical appearance while in the title game, three points as being eliminated in your semifinals belonging to the playoffs, and one point as being eliminated during the quarterfinals.

 

Eight teams, because of that, divided an entire of 26 points in every a sport's ten seasons. The complete 10-year scores for teams have been then changed to a common deviation scale.

 

Landmarks: All the other Fifty % each and every team's score scaled like the volume of seasons which all have elapsed because team final reached 3 crucial landmarks:

 

Its hottest overall championshipIts recent look with the title game, no matter if winning or losinIts most recent appearance in the quarterfinals for the playoffs, regardless of whether winning or losingIf a group hasn't reached the landmark to use historical past, the figure inserted around the acceptable category was that number the franchise 's been around.

 

Every single team's 10-year totals with the 3 categories had been transformed into normal deviation scales