If you're banking on having a shot at playing in the National Hockey League, you better hope you weren't born in Kentucky or New Mexico. As it turns out, the vast majority of people who have gone pro are born in a single band across the US and Canada.

Redditor u/ChangsManagement mapped 6,871 known birth places of NHL players, from 1917 onward, and found something of an S-curve on the map. We're not surprised about the areas with a lot of coverage, but we are surprised at how little the rest of the continent is represented.

Key findings:

• The two areas with the most coverage are, by far, Southeast Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City) and the Acela Corridor (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC).

• The Upper Midwest of the US and Western Canada are also well-represented, but they're simply spread out over much larger geographic regions.

• Some cities, like Los Angeles, St. Louis and Miami, stand out in decidedly non-hockey areas, but those are the exceptions. The rest of the entire continent is sparse.

Via u/ChangsManagement.

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