After this coming season, the NHL may well be looking into some serious realignment that would see Columbus - and Carter - possibly moving into the Eastern conference.
Link to Article.
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The Blue Jackets are pushing the proposal for a 16-team conference and a 14-team conference in hopes of moving east. They are in the Eastern time zone and do not like playing many of their road games in different time zones because their games have to be shown at late hours on television.
“We want to go in the east,” Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson said Saturday. “We want to play more Eastern time-zone teams for obvious reasons.
“We're hopeful we can make that work. I'm in favour of anything that puts us in the east. I’m just happy we're discussing it.”
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So much for trading Carter out west...I really don't want to have to see him on the Jackets more than once a season.