Perfect_Drug
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Anyone else think we should just have 2 conferences, and screw the divisions?
I think there should be two Leagues, like in baseball, where the West plays only the West (and East only East) in the regular season. Two MVPs, two scoring leaders, two everything.Anyone else think we should just have 2 conferences, and screw the divisions?
I wonder if they'll keep it at an 82 game schedule... or increase it to 84 games again once Seattle enters the league?
7 teams x 4 games vs own division teams in own conference
8 teams x 3 games vs other division teams in own conference
16 teams x 2 games vs other conference teams
84 games seems the tidier way to go.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see them go back to this.Anyone else think we should just have 2 conferences, and screw the divisions?
Those two extra games could be another week tacked on to the season. I like your breakdown of the games so the league could start the season at the end of September or make round 1 a best of 5 like it was once upon a time.
This is something I could see happening too. The lockout shortened 2013 season was only conference games. Going by memory, the first three seasons after the 2004 lockout year saw teams playing only one game against non conference opponents. None of these are radical ideas as they’ve been done to some degree before.I think there should be two Leagues, like in baseball, where the West plays only the West (and East only East) in the regular season. Two MVPs, two scoring leaders, two everything.
The NHL is getting too big and unwieldy now.
Oh hell no, no way I want to be in a division with the likes of the Jets/Preds/Blues etc.
Yeah we put in our time getting dummied by these cheater teams. I want a turn to be the hammer.Right? Anaheim, LA and SJ have aging cores, but sure, lets go to the other division where every team is a contender
Nah.I doubt that extremely. They are too close to Vegas and California, and it's even a cultural connection with them.
It makes too much sense to me to put Edm and Calgary in the Central, with Colorado in the Pacific. The Oilers and Flames will NOT be separated just like Philly and Pittsburgh wont. The Alberta teams are 1 time zone away from the furthest Pacific teams, but also 1 time zone away from the furthest Central teams.
I think there should be two Leagues, like in baseball, where the West plays only the West (and East only East) in the regular season. Two MVPs, two scoring leaders, two everything.
The NHL is getting too big and unwieldy now.
They are closer to the central teams than we are.I don't think there's a chance the league moves Arizona to the central. They're located way too close to the Pacific teams for that.
It will be the Oilers and Flames getting moved to the central.
On top of that I don't see owners agreeing to move 3 teams around to keep Arizona who doesn't really even bring in revenue in the Pacific. Moving Colorado, Calgary and Edmonton and breaking the Alberta BC rivalry just doesn't make sense.A division that stretches from Edmonton to Nashville... Yeah I don't think that'll fly.
Easier to move the Yotes over to the central, as they're not that far from Colorado at least. Plus it keeps the 2 western divisions somewhat even in terms of travel.
Seems odd they'd make Vancouver the only Canadian team in that division when Alberta is so close.
I'd think you'd want to keep them with us and Calgary. You want Seattle in the same as Vancouver as well.
So I guess there's 4 teams I'd try to keep together.