Western Conference
There are significantly fewer major rivalries in the NHL's Western Conference, due to that conference being much younger (the conference as a whole was created in 1967, and only two of the conference's teams–Chicago and Detroit–predate the conference's creation) and its teams generally are, geographically speaking, spread much farther apart than those on the East Coast.
Further information: East Coast biasRead more about this topic: National Hockey League Rivalries
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