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Speculation: Roster Building Thread LXXI

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TominNC said:
And Carolina is way closer to Florida, Tampa and maybe Nashville
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Carolina's closest team is Washington. Nashville is simialr to PIT-PHI but the Florida teams are much further from them than that.

You're never going to come up with an alignment that pleases everyone but swapping PIT for BOS makes sense
 
Mikos87 said:
I don't know if I would go for AA. All the wheels. If Duclair fits well with Swiss hockey, I could see stardom for AA in the KHL. Seriously with his skating ability, more ice, and a game that has more skating; dude would do well there.

I think you are going to start seeing the <$900K 1-Year deals, and these middle six guys can make more in Europe. Especially with the taxes.
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With a hard cap there'd be no room for AA this far along in the KHL this season.
 
TominNC said:
And Carolina is way closer to Florida, Tampa and maybe Nashville
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Yeah you want to keep the battle of Penn I think. Besides CLB has a much bigger rivalry with TB than PIT these days. CAR and NSH have an SEC thing going. Actually all of the Southeast teams do.

I would realign the Southeast to go from CLB/STL south and east, and put all of those teams in the same division. From a marketing perspective, it is probably the best thing you can do. Your consumer segments are very very similar.... and that means greater marketing efficacy. You convert the college football fan and you got another growth spurt.

It's good to be able to piggyback off existing rivalries instead of trying to come up with new ones.
 
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Mikos87 said:
Thanks don't think he gets a contract then to be honest, at least in North America.
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Yup, for a player of his caliber relative to who else is available he'd be probably have a choice to sign for something close to a minimum and and after the escrow and all other deductions I'm not sure it would be appealing to him.
 
RGY said:
Nothing confirmed yet on the division realignment, right?
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kovazub94 said:
Yup, for a player of his caliber relative to who else is available he'd be probably have a choice to sign for something close to a minimum and and after the escrow and all other deductions I'm not sure it would be appealing to him.
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Plus he was bad last year. On both teams.
 
TominNC said:
And Carolina is way closer to Florida, Tampa and maybe Nashville
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No, it isn’t. Raleigh is closer to NYC (425 miles) than it is to Sunrise (670 miles), Tampa (585 miles), or Nashville (450 miles). As a matter of fact, Nashville is the only one of those three that’s closer than even Buffalo. Tampa and Boston are pretty close to the same distance from Raleigh.

(Unless you meant that Raleigh is closer to Florida than Pittsburgh, which is true. My point is that, even if the Florida teams were in a division with the Hurricanes, they’ll still be far away from everyone)
 
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Mikos87 said:
Take this and swap PIT and CAR and you are set imo. Would be perfect. You get to keep the organic Crosby v. East Coast battles. CAR can get in some turf wars with NSH and SE teams.
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Who the teams match up with is not the important thing here.
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Carolina's closest team is Washington. Nashville is simialr to PIT-PHI but the Florida teams are much further from them than that.

You're never going to come up with an alignment that pleases everyone but swapping PIT for BOS makes sense
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Just put all the I-95 teams together. Problem solved. Buffalo is the weird one though.
 
Savant said:
Just put all the I-95 teams together. Problem solved. Buffalo is the weird one though.
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I've done the full Miami to Houlton and it is not exactly an exciting drive :laugh:

Yes, that's right, I've been to northern Maine and it does in fact exist.
 
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Amazing Kreiderman said:
Carolina's closest team is Washington. Nashville is simialr to PIT-PHI but the Florida teams are much further from them than that.

You're never going to come up with an alignment that pleases everyone but swapping PIT for BOS makes sense
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I was comparing Carolina and Pittsburgh to the Florida teams. Carolina makes more sense in a southern group
 
Tawnos said:
No, it isn’t. Raleigh is closer to NYC (425 miles) than it is to Sunrise (670 miles), Tampa (585 miles), or Nashville (450 miles). As a matter of fact, Nashville is the only one of those three that’s closer than even Buffalo. Tampa and Boston are pretty close to the same distance from Raleigh.

(Unless you meant that Raleigh is closer to Florida than Pittsburgh, which is true. My point is that, even if the Florida teams were in a division with the Hurricanes, they’ll still be far away from everyone)
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That is my point. Carolina is a southern team. Pittsburgh is not. Of course there are teams that are far away from everyone, but don't skip over teams to get to another
 
TominNC said:
That is my point. Carolina is a southern team. Pittsburgh is not. Of course there are teams that are far away from everyone, but don't skip over teams to get to another
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Looked at in a certain way, no one was skipped at all.. The alignment is quite literally the 24 teams divided equally by longitude.

The furthest west team in the eastern division is Buffalo. The furthest east team in the central division is Pittsburgh, which is west of Buffalo. Yes, Sunrise FL is west of Pittsburgh.

The furthest west team in the central is St Louis. The furthest east team in the western division is Minnesota, which is west of St Louis.

The alignment works perfectly as being described as eastern, central and western.

More importantly though, I’m positive that when they crunched the travel numbers, this alignment was the one with the least miles traveled.
 
Mikos87 said:
Yeah you want to keep the battle of Penn I think. Besides CLB has a much bigger rivalry with TB than PIT these days. CAR and NSH have an SEC thing going. Actually all of the Southeast teams do.

I would realign the Southeast to go from CLB/STL south and east, and put all of those teams in the same division. From a marketing perspective, it is probably the best thing you can do. Your consumer segments are very very similar.... and that means greater marketing efficacy. You convert the college football fan and you got another growth spurt.

It's good to be able to piggyback off existing rivalries instead of trying to come up with new ones.
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Pittsburgh and Columbus is a big rivalry. Fans travel between the cities.3 hours apart. Unlikely they will be separated. What I’ve heard is PGH & CBJ to the Central and BOS and BUF to the east. Fair trade.
 
Tawnos said:
Looked at in a certain way, no one was skipped at all.. The alignment is quite literally the 24 teams divided equally by longitude.

The furthest west team in the eastern division is Buffalo. The furthest east team in the central division is Pittsburgh, which is west of Buffalo. Yes, Sunrise FL is west of Pittsburgh.

The furthest west team in the central is St Louis. The furthest east team in the western division is Minnesota, which is west of St Louis.

The alignment works perfectly as being described as eastern, central and western.

More importantly though, I’m positive that when they crunched the travel numbers, this alignment was the one with the least miles traveled.
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How is Pittsburgh flying to Miami a savings over Carolina to Miami? How about Pittsburgh to Boston v Raleigh to Boston? Try again with Buffalo, etc.
 
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