Long time readers of this blog might remember a video SBNation produced that would show up under our stories. It showed a dramatic burning flame background and carried on about how the Canadian teams were all bad. A narrative that sorts the NHL teams based in Canada into a group and claims they all have some characteristic in common seems to appeal to sportswriters on both sides of the border. It’s easy to frame a story that way. But even when those teams were all out of the playoffs in the same year, the differences between them were greater than the similarities.