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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut
Are baseball affiliates generally close to their big league clubs?
That definitely isn't the case for hockey. Edmonton's AHL team is in OKC, San Jose's is in Worcester, MA, and LA's is in Manchester, NH just to name a few long-distance affiliations.
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Hockey will naturally be more distant as hockey had to expand further distances to places in the south and the west. Not to mention the percentage of canadians to americans within the leagues.