I've always wondered why a Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup in over 20 years?

Turns out Nate Silver has the answer - the teams in the major metropolitan areas haven't had a strong incentive to really produce a winner, since their measure of success is really profit. This is no surprise since most if not all sports teams are owned by corporations whose goals pretty much revolve around profit.

I like this idea of having 2-3 Toronto teams, a second Montreal team, and another in the Pacific Northwest -

(Source: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/why-cant-canada-win-the-stanley-cup/?_r=0)