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Maps, conferences, divisions, travel and the arguments behind them.
NHL Realignment Project Week 34: Moving Florida and Ohio
Week 34 keeps the league's six-division structure but moves the Florida and Ohio teams, sends Detroit east, and lets the Phoenix Coyotes survive the week.
NHL Realignment Project Week 35: Merging the Worst Four
Week 35 borrows the 1976 Barons merger: the four teams with the worst attendance become two, and both land in cities that once lost their teams.
NHL Realignment Project Week 36: Going Canadian
Week 36 relocates and redistributes until every division has at least one Canadian team, with conferences named Gretzky and Orr and a 78-game season.
NHL Realignment Project Week 37: A 32-Team Map
Week 37 adds four teams west of the Gretzky-Orr line, revives Patrick, Adams, Norris and Smythe, and builds a 90-game schedule with wildcards.
NHL Realignment Project – Week 38: Four Conferences Return
Week 38 brought back a four-conference NHL named for the old divisions, with Seattle, Salt Lake City and three former cities back in the fold.
NHL Realignment Project – Week 39: Coyotes to Seattle
Week 39 of the realignment project sticks to scenarios that could actually happen: the Coyotes leave the desert for Seattle in a 30-team, six-division NHL.