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Champions League (Version 2) As some of you geniuses may have figured out by the title of last week’s post, we are doing a variation this week instead of a full-on new idea. Things are super-busy at work right now, and this is the way we’re gonna go. Gotta pay the bills… what can you …
Champions League (Version 1) Just like, last week, we’re gonna go into contraction mode again. But we’re pushing it much further this time. In this, the sixteenth week of the NHL Realignment Project, we’re going to contract the NHL to only the current teams that have already won the Stanley Cup (yes, I know the NHL …
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 …
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, …