Confirmed with Link: 13-14 season schedule

[The Zetterberg Era]

The NHL had divisional playoffs for years.
A lot of those banners hanging in the rafters are from winning divisional playoff series I believe.

Essentially what we have now is a division playoff -- except for one wildcard.

I think you are correct, trouble remembering now, seems so long ago. But pretty sure the banners were for winning the first two rounds and getting to the Conference Finals.

 

[RedWingsNow*]

The NHL had divisional playoffs for years.
A lot of those banners hanging in the rafters are from winning divisional playoff series I believe.

Essentially what we have now is a division playoff -- except for one wildcard.

Well, that's wrong
http://www.detroithockey.net/team/arena/rafters.php

Regardless -- winning your divisional playoff is more impressive than winning your division standings in the regular season.

Just like winning the Stanley Cup is more impressive than winning the President's Trophy.

At the end of the day, you're the only one from your division left standing -- and you are truly divisional champs

 

[SoupNazi]

Only seven games start later than 8pm EST.

Thank God!

 

[Vladdy84]

Only seven games start later than 8pm EST.

Yes! Now 64 times or more a year when the Wings suck and Danny's out there for 18 minutes a night the game will be over by 10. I'll be able to cool down and get to sleep at a decent time.

 

[Chance on Chance]

I'm calling the east like this:

Atlantic
Boston
Detroit
Ottawa
Montreal
Toronto
Tampa Bay
Florida
Buffalo

Metro
Pittsburgh
New York Rangers
Washington
Philadelphia
Columbus
New York Islanders
New Jersey
Carolina

Why wash so high?

 

[Frozen Fiend]

Yes! Now 64 times or more a year when the Wings suck and Danny's out there for 18 minutes a night the game will be over by 10. I'll be able to cool down and get to sleep at a decent time.

Lol this is music to my ears.

 

[Kanenenights]

Nice schedule out, time to plan a long visit with all these home games.

 

[LeighDx59]

We play in Tampa Bay on my birthday so I might try to fly down there for both the Panthers/Lightning games in December.

 

[Winger98]

The NHL had divisional playoffs for years.
A lot of those banners hanging in the rafters are from winning divisional playoff series I believe.

Essentially what we have now is a division playoff -- except for one wildcard.

Yeah, the wildcard thing is odd. It takes the logic of the setup, and chucks it into a blender. At that point, just take the top8 from each conference and seed them accordingly.

 

[joe89]

Yeah, the wildcard thing is odd. It takes the logic of the setup, and chucks it into a blender. At that point, just take the top8 from each conference and seed them accordingly.

I kinda disagree. Maybe it's a bit of a compromise to the idea but I think there's some fairness if one division is significantly stronger than the other one. I think the divisions in the East look very even right now but in the West I can really see the 5th placed team in the Pacific beeing a lot more deserving than the 4th placed team in the Central. That'll change each season, of course.

Many of the years I still think we'll still see 4 teams from each division since the divisional play will be so crucial to the standings.

 

[Detroit Sports*]

Did they release the names of the new divisions yet?

 

[mindfly]

Did they release the names of the new divisions yet?

Did you not look at the new forum layout, wings are in eastern conference's Atlantic Division....

Apparently Detroit is located near the atlantic sea

 

[Detroit Sports*]

Did you not look at the new forum layout, wings are in eastern conference's Atlantic Division....

Apparently Detroit is located near the atlantic sea

No I didn't... I haven't been on here. What are the western divisions called?

 

[mindfly]

No I didn't... I haven't been on here. What are the western divisions called?

East:
Atlantic Division
Metropolitan Division

West:
Central Division
Pacific Divison

 

[Kronwalled55]

Metropolitan division... I'm sure they sat at a desk and thought a long time on that one.

It sounds terrible. Someone said in the main board thread that it could it at least be called the "Metropolis Division," and I agree.

 

[Frk It]

Did you not look at the new forum layout, wings are in eastern conference's Atlantic Division....

Apparently Detroit is located near the atlantic sea

We don't have seas in America

 

[InjuredChoker]

13-14 season - 35,324 15
11-12 season - 42,865 20
10-11 season - 39,793 17

First number is travel miles, second back-to-backers.

 

[InjuredChoker]

Boston Bruins 42,389 17
Buffalo Sabres 34,812 13
Florida Panthers 45,136 14
Montreal Canadiens 39,327 17
Ottawa Senators 34,850 16
Tampa Bay Lightning 43,102 12
Toronto Maple Leafs 35,975 16

Numbers for other teams

 

[mindfly]

Ouch, how can Boston have that much more travel than Detroit?

 

[SoupNazi]

Ouch, how can Boston have that much more travel than Detroit?

Detroit's location is more central to many of the teams than Boston's.

 

[SaCkaveli20]

Not going to lie, I'm quite excited for this upcoming season. Love the schedule!!

 

[Detroit Sports*]

East:
Atlantic Division
Metropolitan Division

West:
Central Division
Pacific Divison

thanks

 

[Winger98]

It's not really the miles that hurts, it's the multiple time zone jumps.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Yeah, the wildcard thing is odd. It takes the logic of the setup, and chucks it into a blender. At that point, just take the top8 from each conference and seed them accordingly.

This.

I could eventually get over the unbalanced conferences but divisional playoffs is stupid and if you're gonna do it then don't half do it.

How does the 2nd round work does it re-seed or does it stay within the division until the Conf. Finals.

 

[Chris 84]

And the wild-card format was designed to help negate the numerical imbalance in the divisions/conferences and appease the NHLPA, but still ensuring that the divisional games are more important by having the top 3 in each division getting a guaranteed spot.

this is the bit i don't understand. how is the imbalance negated? in the east, half of the teams will make the playoffs and half will miss out.
in the west, 8/14 will make the playoffs, giving teams in the west a distinct advantage.