That's the message players sent to the Toronto Sun in their annual players poll on who's hot and who's not in the NHL when asked about which city they would never want to be traded to (sorry Austin). It was just one question the paper asked in a rather unscientific poll on life in the league (only 15 players completed the anonymous survey), and the result is more fun than anything else.
Then again, the paper can't help but show a hometown bias, as in this revealing sentence:
Toronto scored well as a good place to play on game night, but despite what you might think, it's not the top trade destination in the league.
Sounds like Mike Milbury might have tried to game the results. The players in the poll made Vancouver their favorite place to play, with Toronto in second, and New York, L.A., and Miami not far behind.
And in a result that was hardly surprising, fans of the Flyers, Islanders and the Rangers were chosen as "worst in the league" in that order. Worst, that is, unless you actually get to host a playoff series in one of those cities. In any case, hockey fans will enjoy checking out the poll, which I found courtesy of Steve Ovaida and reader Dave S. from Northern Virginia.
