thaman8765678
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Toronto could play in the Siberia division, and they still wouldn't win the cup with their collection of chokers.
If anything Nashville and Chicago need to move east. Nothing west about either city. Maybe they will by the time we hit 36 teams.
This.Toronto could play in the Siberia division, and they still wouldn't win the cup with their collection of chokers.
OP doesn't understand time zones, either, evidently.OP has never looked at a map, and doesn't know the meaning of "east" and "west".
Chicago got 3 immediate Cups after Detroit moved east. Point proved.
Atlantic division is total nonsense. 2 cap circumvention teams in Florida.
Montreal Detroit Ottawa Toronto Buffalo.
Then Boston. Makes no sense. There’s one rivalry in there Boston Montreal. Toronto and Detroit were Western teams we played once per year. Toronto has more of a rivalry with LA Kings than the Bruins historically.
Chicago got 3 immediate Cups after Detroit moved east. Point proved.
Atlantic division is total nonsense. 2 cap circumvention teams in Florida.
Montreal Detroit Ottawa Toronto Buffalo.
Then Boston. Makes no sense. There’s one rivalry in there Boston Montreal. Toronto and Detroit were Western teams we played once per year. Toronto has more of a rivalry with LA Kings than the Bruins historically.
So do II like the annual Boston beating Toronto in the 7 th game of the 1 st round of the playoffs…
Boston vs Toronto in the playoffs is much watch tv.
Would love if NHL divisions were NFL style: 2 conferences with 4 divisions of 4 teams with an emphasis on divisional play, but seeing as the league is talking expansion again, wouldn’t work for too much longer
ANA/LA/SJ/VGK
SEA/VAN/CGY/EDM
CHI/WPG/MIN/STL
UTA/NSH/DAL/COL
NYR/NYI/NJ/BOS
TOR/MTL/OTT/BUF
CAR/FLA/TB/WSH
PIT/PHI/CBJ/DET
Again, geographically? Sure, split the PA teams. But it would harm what is normally a fierce and interesting rivalry that puts butts in seats and eyeballs on screens. Also, if the alignment is 8 divisions (and I assume 4 conferences), then the games played would switch to a 6/4/2 matrix, so PIT/CBJ would be playing 2 of MTL, TOR, OTT, BUF, BOS, DET 6 times a year, and NYR/PHI/WSH only twice, so yes, it is a big difference.However, when the NHL last realigned, they should have swapped Florida/Tampa with Columbus/Pittsburgh. It's so dumb that the Florida teams are with Canada because of snowbirds.
This makes way more sense to me geographically, and yes, I'm splitting up PIT/PHI. They played in different divisions prior to 1999, and being in-division only means one more game anyway.
Northeast: MTL, TOR, OTT, BUF, BOS, DET, CBJ, PIT
Atlantic: NYR, NYI, NJ, PHI, WSH, CAR, TB, FLA
So one play-off series from half a lifetime ago? How many times have the Bruins booted the Leafs since the internet was discovered? When was the last time that there was a meaningful LA/TOR game?How? The 1993 Gretzky- Gilmour series is probably the most significant playoff series off the modern era. Last epic year of NHL before dead puck. Last time the Leafs didn't suck. Toronto dipped to the East so they don't play anymore but if they didn't they would play LAK more than Montreal or Boston.
Peak NHL too the league went in the shitter quick after that year.
E:
1 - TOR, DET, BUF, OTT (2 big markets, 2 small ones)
2 - MTL, BOS, TBL, FLA (2 big markets, 2 small ones)
Plus more new teams in the West/Central than Eastern.Tbh if anything Chicago and Nashville are probably moving east before anyone else would move west.
Unless the timezones change then that’s how it’ll be
Nobody viewed Detroit as Cup contenders in 2014. What’s this all about?
Uhhh no, because in terms of geography both Detroit and TO are more closer to east coast than west coastSurely each has a Cup if they don’t demand to play in their time zone?
As a Bruins fan it’s still a weird division we don’t play the Rangers and barely see the Habs. Ottawa and Buffalo are nothing teams and 2 southern squads.
Why the f*** were Toronto and Detroit so desperate to leave the West? They had the best of all worlds and it’s what 15-20 road games a year that start late?
Add a team to Arizona and another in Houston and both Nashville and Chicago would move EastChicago and Nashville would fight moving east for the same reason Detroit and Toronto fought to move east -- early/late starts suck.
That being said, depending upon expansion, one or both of them might end up in the east. (Nashville most likely if it's only one).
I would give them the Caps Cup and the Blues Cup if they were out west, maybe. With 2 rings, the core doesn't look so hapless.What year are the Leafs winning a Cup if they moved out West? The Wings haven't been competitive since 2014, it has nothing to do with what Conference they're in
Why notF off with this bullshit. We are not moving to the West. Period. Ever. End of story.
How can a playoff series between two teams that failed to win the Cup possibly be the most significant series of the modern era? It may be significant in Toronto, since it's the only time since the Original Six that the Leafs made the conference finals. However, the rest of the league doesn't really care.How? The 1993 Gretzky- Gilmour series is probably the most significant playoff series off the modern era.