Endless Possibilities. Zero Consensus.
Week 7 – Bigger is Better Busy work week delayed this week’s entry, but here it is. This week, we go all kinds of crazy. We throw caution to the wind and make the NHL the biggest league in North American professional sports — 36 teams! Florida’s unbelievable movement on the first day of free-agency …
Week 6 – Get Real, Take Two! Thanks to a busy holiday weekend (and thinking about last week’s map a bit more), I’ve just tweaked the previous map a bit for NRP Week 6. Sticking with the geographic names for the four divisions like last week. Unlike the previous edition, we’ve unbalanced the East and …
Week 5 – Get Real! In this week’s edition, we’re gonna (temporarily) toss out my King Of North America Defense, and be realistic with the realignment. Word’s be going around in the last few days that the NHL is already looking into 2012 realignment and that the four-division set up is probably going to make …
Week 4 – The Devil You Say! All apologies to Kevin Smith, but this week, the biggest victims are the New Jersey Devils. The Devils have underachieved in attendance forever, and there are just too many teams in the Greater NYC area. In this make believe world, I could just has easily taken the axe …
Week 3 – Damn, that’s Cold Okay, I’m going a bit radical this week. This one is for all those anti-southern city folks. NOTE: I am not one of the anti-southern city peeps. I live in Texas, after all. So basically, with this plan, we’ve decided that the NHL hockey is a purely niche sport …
Week 2 — Phoenix to Seattle Welcome back, true believers. Week two is upon us. This week we’ll look at a slightly more plausible scenario for the NHL’s 2012-2013 season. The league stays at the current 30-team count and the only team joining the Winnipeg team in relocation (now with a Jets logo on the …
Week 1 – Moving and Shaking (and Expanding) What timing… the day I launch my first of 52 (or more) weekly NHL realignment options, the NHL made it official (pending BOG approval), the sale and move of the Thrashers franchise to Winnipeg, so no need to include Winnipeg/Atlanta in my potential gained/lost descriptions. Serendipity, baby. …
Because I’m such a huge dork, I have decided that I’m gonna put up an NHL relocation/realignment plan up on my blog every week from now until the end of the off-season. Some will have contraction, some will have expansion, most will have relocations, and all will have realignment. Sound fun? It does to me. …
Add my name to the list of idiot bloggers trying to rework the NHL. Basically, five markets lose their franchises and three markets gain them (or regain them). I’m not saying a team is “moving” because that gets into the age-old debate of whether franchise records/stats travel with the team. So, no. In my league, …