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NHL Realignment Project

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.

The Hockey Book of the Week

Random Hockey Book of the Week, Week 10: The Code

The feature returns with Ross Bernstein on fighting and retaliation: the unwritten rules that pick up where the rule book leaves off, in 50 interviews.

NHL Realignment Project

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

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

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.

Hockey

Coyotes Sale Nearly Done, and the Team Stays in Glendale

What Seattle, Kansas City and Quebec City did not want to hear: the Coyotes sale was nearly complete to Greg Jamison and the team was staying in Glendale.

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