@cotsonika: Daly says NHL wants to have realignment settled in about two weeks.

looks like rubber meet road time now finally!

That plan put out with uneven divisions sounds kind of weak.
http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/...nt-scheme/

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@ 30 teams

2 conferences, 3 divisions each isn't a bad framework

The problem might be if all these expansion and movement rumors happen

2nd team in Toronto

Quebec?

Montreal?

Hamilton?

Coyotes moving.

I've heard grumblings about Seattle

I don't think Atlanta gets back in after two stints with the NHL. Granted the last one was more ownership forced.

interesting:
http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/...n-tweaked/

(02-13-2013 10:07 PM)stever20 Wrote:  interesting:
http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/...n-tweaked/

Its still stupid to do 4 divisions with uneven membeship and then switch it from season to season. How do you know who is a division rival if it changes. I don't see the NHLPA approving this at all.

where did they say the were going to switch it from season to season? Didn't see that at all in the article.

(02-13-2013 11:21 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(02-13-2013 10:07 PM)stever20 Wrote:  interesting:
http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/...n-tweaked/

Its still stupid to do 4 divisions with uneven membeship and then switch it from season to season. How do you know who is a division rival if it changes. I don't see the NHLPA approving this at all.

First I thought they were going strictly by time zones, but then when I saw that wasn't the case, I thought their groupings were pretty nuts.

Phx will move, and isn't there talk about Columbus moving?

Still this really can't be that hard.

(02-13-2013 10:04 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  That plan put out with uneven divisions sounds kind of weak.
http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/...nt-scheme/

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@ 30 teams

2 conferences, 3 divisions each isn't a bad framework

The problem might be if all these expansion and movement rumors happen

2nd team in Toronto

Quebec?

Montreal?

Hamilton?

Coyotes moving.

I've heard grumblings about Seattle

I don't think Atlanta gets back in after two stints with the NHL. Granted the last one was more ownership forced.

(02-13-2013 11:26 PM)stever20 Wrote:  where did they say the were going to switch it from season to season? Didn't see that at all in the article.

excerpt from article

Quote:Franchises in the eight-team conferences will play each other “five or six times in a season on a rotating basis,” with three teams battling it out six times and four teams doing so on five occasions. That process will flip-flop the following season, so the teams that played each other five times will switch to six and vice versa.

that's not flipping the teams in the divisions.

In the seven-team Conferences, teams would play six times -- three home, three away -- for a total of 36 inter-division games. In the eight-team Conferences, teams would play either five or six times in a season on a rotating basis -- for a total of 38 inter-division games.

What that means- for the 2 western conferences- let's take 1:
Detroit, Columbus, Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas and Winnipeg

in year 1 Detroit would play say Columbus, Nashville, St Louis 6x and Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas, Winnipeg 5x.
in year 2 Detroit would play Chciago, Minnesota, and Dallas 6x and Columbus, Nashville, St Louis, Winnipeg 5x.

It's the flipping of who you are playing an extra time. You're still in a division with those 7 other teams.

For the Caps/Canes- nothing changes. Would see everyone in the division 6x.