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My Stanley Cup Runneth Over

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After seeing how Justin Bieber treated the Black Hawk logo when he was in the Chicago locker room, the Bruins took appropriate measures before Bieber's concert at TD Garden last night.

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jmh said:
Unbalanced conferences are BS.
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Agreed, at least in the abstract.

Thinking out loud: Is there any particular reason we need to have conferences in the NHL? Surely it can't be to preserve a role for a pair of trophies that no one's willing to touch! Assuming the first two rounds of the playoffs are going to be intra-division, you're basically talking about pairings for the third round. Why not just rotate those pairings? It could work like this:

Year 1
Metro vs. Central
Atlantic vs. Pacific

Year 2
Metro vs. Pacific
Atlantic vs. Central

Year 3
Metro vs. Atlantic
Central vs. Pacific

Doing it that way you'd only have a 16 team "conference" once every three years. Also, regardless of the playoff format, a somewhat regionalized schedule for the regular season could still be retained -- Metro gets extra regular season games with Atlantic, Central gets extra games with Pacific.

I'm still thinking this through; maybe there's a better option for reducing the imbalance. But at least from a CBJ perspective, the motivation for realignment was not having enough Eastern Time Zone match-ups during the regular season. As long as the regular season is properly structured, I gotta believe that if a team is fortunate enough to be one of the last four standing, a little extra travel in Round 3 wouldn't be a huge issue for them.
 
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jmh said:
Unbalanced conferences are BS.
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pgb-ohio said:
Agreed, at least in the abstract.
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Looks like we're the only ones bothered by this.:o

In our defense, I'll note that MLB just dropped a 16/14 split, moving to 15/15. But I guess for the silent majority, this is a non-issue. Or, at least it will be until some team on the bubble decides they were wrongly excluded from the playoff field, due to the imbalance.;)
 
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pgb-ohio said:
Looks like we're the only ones bothered by this.:o

In our defense, I'll note that MLB just dropped a 16/14 split, moving to 15/15. But I guess for the silent majority, this is a non-issue. Or, at least it will be until some team on the bubble decides they were wrongly excluded from the playoff field, due to the imbalance.;)
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I don't like unbalanced conferences at all, but I'm not overly concerned with it as the NHL is merely where the really good college players get set out to pasture.
 
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Be in the top 8 and you don't have to worry about it.


By and large, with 16 teams making it, nobody of any consequence will be left out (the Kings were an anomaly).
 
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I had thought that the original idea was to have 4 conferences with no divisions, with the playoffs being done similar to what pgb-ohio noted above. In that case, is the 8-8-7-7 disparity that big of a deal?
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
I had thought that the original idea was to have 4 conferences with no divisions...
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That would have been my preference. Of course then we'd need to create two new trophies that no one would be willing to touch. But getting a couple more iconic names on prominent trophies might be a good thing.

...with the playoffs being done similar to what pgb-ohio noted above. In that case, is the 8-8-7-7 disparity that big of a deal?
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We're on the same page. However it's labeled, this change would take a small problem and turn it into a non-issue. Rotating the semi-finals is the key element.

aparch said:
Nah, it will work better with Seattle and Kansas City getting expansion teams in the West.

Then the Panthers move to Quebec City...
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Like it. KC fits well in the Central, as does Seattle in the Pacific. I also believe Quebec deserves a team and could make it work...
 
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aparch said:
Nah, it will work better with Seattle and Kansas City getting expansion teams in the West.

Then the Panthers move to Quebec City...
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pgb-ohio said:
Like it. KC fits well in the Central, as does Seattle in the Pacific. I also believe Quebec deserves a team and could make it work...
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The Panthers to QC would be interesting. Especially since it really puts Tampa in a funny spot. The Flortheast division really turns into something funny then.

Also, I'd vote for Milwaukee to get involved somehow, but we missed our boat. Unless we can start making more beer again, or unless more people buy Harleys, I think we're done for on the NHL front.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Also, I'd vote for Milwaukee to get involved somehow, but we missed our boat. Unless we can start making more beer again, or unless more people buy Harleys, I think we're done for on the NHL front.
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The Bradley Center could become the UC North.

They'd be assured of at least 3-4 sellouts a year.

:p
 
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