The league isn't doing an 18/16 split, they're not creating a 6/7/5 - 6/5/5 divisional breakdown, if they were doing a 7 team division, Buffalo wouldn't be split off from Boston, Toronto, and Ottawa, and that third division is genuinely worse than the old Southeast. That's not workable at all in the East.
In the West, you appear to have contracted Minnesota, and there's no way to make a three time zone division make any sense to me, so Vancouver would have to go back to the Pacific, and you'll need an expansion team for Minnesota in the middle division. Then it would be closer.
This one doesn't have Quebec, and your fascination with cramming Columbus with the Southeast continues to be baffling and a terrible idea. The two six-team divisions probably love this, because they're with everyone they want, but the other five teams in the red headed stepchild division are going to drown from lack of games against traditional teams and weak rivalries.
Other than that, the West is still bad unless the Coyotes move to Kansas City, Vancouver returns to the Pacific, and you slide a CTZ team into that middle division.
The crux of the matter is that Norfolk doesn't actually solve any problems, nor does Atlanta. For the immediate future, what the league needs is to unlock doors in the West, preferably not on the Pacific coast. Once they have Seattle and Houston in the league, and Arizona either settled or relocated to either Kansas City or Milwaukee (either would work), then we can look at the East, but until then, everything's contingent on getting that geographic balance to work.
,or how about Kyle Turris who did not want to live in Arizona but is okey with Ottawa.
