While the Carolina Hurricanes' schedule this season looks a bit grueling due to way their road games are broken out, in terms of actual miles that the team will be travelling, Carolina is one of the luckier teams.

Travel is such a big part of an NHL season, especially when you have a league with teams on opposite sides of not only the country, but nearly the continent.

In a post by bookies.com, it was shown that the Canes will travel only 35,895 miles this season, which is the 8th least in the league.

The Hurricanes benefit 1) from having the geographically tightest division as the furthest places they have to travel within the Metropolitan Division is New York and 2) the fact that the Eastern Conference as a whole is also the least spread out of the two conferences.

Add in smart scheduling like getting all of the West Coast teams or all of Western Canada out in a single trip, and you can see why the Canes won't be grabbing as many airline points as their contemporaries. 

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