Thread: any thoughts on realignment

Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti

People need to stop with the north and south conference talk. It's not a good idea and will never happen. A spread out alignment works in baseball and football because they play the vast majority of their games during the day. How can you ask people in Florida to consistently stay up until 1:30am to finish watching a road game against the Kings? Not the best way to grow the game and certainly doesn't reduce travel. It actually increases it for every team. Including the western ones.

I live in Florida and watch every Kings game.
I moved here from LA in 2006. Fans will watch their teams no matter what time zone they are in.

Originally Posted by pg1067

Google image search "NHL teams map."


The "Pacific" (Smythe) and "Midwest" (Norris) divisions mostly make sense. The "Central" division does not. I would do it this way:

Smythe
Kings
SJ
Anaheim
Phoenix
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton

Norris
Colorado
Dallas
Winnipeg
Minnesota
St. Louis
Nashville
Chicago
Columbus

Patrick
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Washington
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Florida

Adams
New Jersey
NYR
NYI
Boston
Buffalo
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto


This would have 15 teams in each "conference," which I think makes more sense than a 16/14 split (although I haven't thought about how it might impact scheduling).

I don't know that I really care whether the playoffs are top 3 in each division plus 2 wildcards or top 4 in each division.

thank you. i also don't understand how it would be bad for the kings to sport a midwest banner in the playoffs? ****s confusing. i like it how it is right now, just flip winnipeg and columbus or move winnipeg over.

Originally Posted by B-MEL

Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti

People need to stop with the north and south conference talk. It's not a good idea and will never happen. A spread out alignment works in baseball and football because they play the vast majority of their games during the day. How can you ask people in Florida to consistently stay up until 1:30am to finish watching a road game against the Kings? Not the best way to grow the game and certainly doesn't reduce travel. It actually increases it for every team. Including the western ones.

I live in Florida and watch every Kings game.
I moved here from LA in 2006. Fans will watch their teams no matter what time zone they are in.

Some fans, yes. All fans, no. Plus my point was about growing the game. A person who wants to give hockey a chance is more likely to do so if the games are on at a reasonable time.

Originally Posted by Mr.Hockey 2.0

Originally Posted by pg1067

Google image search "NHL teams map."


The "Pacific" (Smythe) and "Midwest" (Norris) divisions mostly make sense. The "Central" division does not. I would do it this way:

Smythe
Kings
SJ
Anaheim
Phoenix
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton

Norris
Colorado
Dallas
Winnipeg
Minnesota
St. Louis
Nashville
Chicago
Columbus

Patrick
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Washington
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Florida

Adams
New Jersey
NYR
NYI
Boston
Buffalo
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto


This would have 15 teams in each "conference," which I think makes more sense than a 16/14 split (although I haven't thought about how it might impact scheduling).

I don't know that I really care whether the playoffs are top 3 in each division plus 2 wildcards or top 4 in each division.

thank you. i also don't understand how it would be bad for the kings to sport a midwest banner in the playoffs? ****s confusing. i like it how it is right now, just flip winnipeg and columbus or move winnipeg over.

Division banners have always been regular season based. The Kings would never have a Midwest banner.

Originally Posted by Mr.Hockey 2.0

i like it how it is right now, just flip winnipeg and columbus or move winnipeg over.

Read something awhile back that Columbus would not vote for a plan that separated them from Detroit. The 4 games a year Detroit comes to town are apparently their biggest ticket, and they are only like 3 hours apart.

As for the existing plan, seems like Carolina should be switched with one of the northern teams in the Central

Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti

Division banners have always been regular season based. The Kings would never have a Midwest banner.

Probably never figured Boston or Montreal would have a Central Division banner either.

Originally Posted by pg1067

Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti

Division banners have always been regular season based. The Kings would never have a Midwest banner.

Probably never figured Boston or Montreal would have a Central Division banner either.

That name needs to change. There are no central teams in that division.

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

I'm guessing the Midwest gets Kansas City! (heh)
And the Pacific gets Seattle.

There's already a building in KC and Seattle is trying to get the Sacramento Kings via a brand new state of the art basketball/hockey arena so... an NHL team would certainly help them fill that arena 41 (or more) nights out of the year.

Seattle and KC would be no surprise given the NHL's "great" success with expansion cities. I mean, we all know KC was a resounding success last time the NHL went there (just like Atlanta!). And the fact those two cities are FAR more viable that another team in Toronto or Quebec. Give me a break.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The NHL has NO business whatsoever expanding. Period. Move teams to where they are sure to be a success not going into the vast wasteland of KC....I swear the NHL is run by idiots.

jom

Originally Posted by jom

The NHL has NO business whatsoever expanding. Period. Move teams to where they are sure to be a success not going into the vast wasteland of KC....I swear the NHL is run by idiots.

jom

I agree.... but tons of people said that the last time they expanded and last time I checked the League has never been more profitable. You may not think that they have the best interests of "entertaining hockey" or "the fans" in mind... but one thing they are not, is idiots.