When the NHL Awards are handed out each year, there are accusations of geographic bias.
Sometimes it's due to the size of a market. More often it's complaints about how one division or conference is covered by a larger press corps than another -- the storied "East Coast bias" that always seems so severe in theory, but ineffectual in practice. (Fun fact: The Western Conference has four of the past five Norris Trophy winners.)
But in this wacky 56-game sprint of an NHL season, those laments about "bias" creeping into awards voting may have renewed merit, thanks to the existence of the realigned North Division, aka the "We The North" Division, aka the All-Canadian Division.