Taro Tsujimoto
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- Colorado joins the Pacific
- San Antonio and Texas move to the Central
- Cleveland moves to the North
Did they mention if playoffs are going to be divisional now instead of through the conference? That would make more sense for playoff travel (and no longer having to track everything through points percentage).
So where will the AHL have their potential Seattle AHL affiliate at?
So where will the AHL have their potential Seattle AHL affiliate at?
Note the lone empty slot in the Pacific.
Of course it’ll depend on where the 32nd AHL team ends up.
Boise is still 500 miles from Seattle. If you are going to have to fly your players between the AHL and NHL teams anyway, why not put the team in California so it is closer to the other divisional foes, and reduce travel time between games? Fresno, Long Beach, or Sacramento would all have advantages over Boise.well there's a gap in the PNW so somewhere along there. There is really only one ideal location and that's Boise and promote the stealheads to AHL.
I would assume Colorado will be playing the shorter schedule
The only way I see ahl hockey in the north west is for the Canucks and Seattle to put the teams in their own city like the Leafs, Sharks and Jets have done.....
The Heat have announced the traditional 6 guaranteed home dates. Many other teams in the West are either still in the playoffs or recently exited.So what is the schedule coming out tomorrow or something?
Well the only other western conference team I've seen say anything is Grand Rapids.
Cleveland posted their matrix today. No Hartford/Springfield/Providence/Bridgeport, but they still play Chicago/Grand Rapids/Milwaukee/Rockford from the West. So sick of those teams, thankfully only twice a year do they come in. I wish that they would have dropped them and played the entire Eastern Conference, but travel wise this does make sense.