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Originally Posted by smithformeragent
Has anyone heard anything new with regards to realignment? I thought for sure that this one of the first shoes to drop once the CBA was agreed on, but I have not heard a thing. Last I heard, the NHLPA refused to ratify the proposal that the league had agreed on which called for four conferences, two of which would have seven teams and two of which would have eight teams. The top four teams in each conference would make the playoffs. Teams 1-4 and teams 2-3 would meet in the first round, and the winners would play to determine the conference champion. Then, the final four teams would be re-seeded.
Obviously, a team like Winnipeg would want this resolved for next season given their brutal travel schedule.
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Isn't Winnipeg going to have a brutal travel schedule no matter what conference or division they play in?
Even if you put them in a divison with the 4 closest cities to them
I guess you would be looking at Minnesotta at 380 miles, Chicago 720 miles, Then Saint Louis Edmonton and Calgary 750 are all around 750 miles away. There are 13 teams closer to Boston than the second closest team is to Winnipeg