This would never happen...
But if I was in charge here's how I would re-work the league into a world wide league.
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The two continental conferences wouldn't have interleague play, but the all-star game would be NA VS EU (not the crap they had before) and it the location would switch each yea between a NA location & a EU location.
Each continental conference would have the same playoff situation as we have now except instead of the winner of the east / west conference final being the stanley cup winner, now the stanley cup winner would be the EU champion vs the NA champion to decide the cup winner. It'd only be adding 1 more round to the playoff format we have now.
This all probally makes no sense, but I figured i'd tell you guys my idea. Thoughts?
Someone gimme a couple billion so I can buy the WHA name and start my own super league.
Also, the EU conferences / divisions are pretty much already in place, it'd just be a matter of converting the russian/german/swedish/etc leagues.