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Post by Ducky on Apr 10, 2005 1:11:26 GMT -5
Portland would for sure make a great natural rival for the vancouver canucks. Seattle could also make a great NHL but the sports entertainement dollar is probably is way over spread with the sonics, Mariners, and Seahawks and t-Birds. Portland for instance has only their WHL team and the Blazers so there is room for an NHL team there.
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Post by dreamcatcher on Apr 12, 2005 13:33:28 GMT -5
There's certainly a number of great locations outside of Winnipeg, that would better suit the coming NHL. Houston definetly is one, Hamilton, Seattle and Quebec are a few I was thinking of.
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Post by joelzillmanwpg on Apr 12, 2005 19:20:53 GMT -5
Portland would for sure make a great natural rival for the vancouver canucks. Seattle could also make a great NHL but the sports entertainement dollar is probably is way over spread with the sonics, Mariners, and Seahawks and t-Birds. Seattle-Tacoma area also has over 5,000,000 people, let's not forget. There is plenty of room for an NHL team there. After all, if the NHL is sucessful in other saturated areas like Dallas, Minnesota, Detroit, Boston, Colorado, Philadelphia, etc. It can definitely fly in Seattle!
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Post by BleedOil on Apr 16, 2005 23:36:31 GMT -5
These are some ideas I've tooled around with for the NHL; would you watch it? Keep in mind: I wanted to keep everyone happy. Here is the alignment. *34 teams *72 games a season SMYTHE division (8 teams) Anaheim Ducks Calgary Flames Edmonton Oilers Los Angeles Kings Phoenix Coyotes San Jose Sharks Vancouver Canucks Winnipeg Jets NORRIS division (9 teams) Chicago Blackhawks Colorado Avalanche Columbus Blue Jackets Dallas Stars Detroit Red Wings Houston Aeros Minnesota Wild Nashville Predators St. Louis Blues PATRICK division (9 teams) Atlanta Thrashers Carolina Hurricanes Florida Panthers Hartford Whalers New Jersey Devils Ny Islanders Ny Rangers Tampa Bay Lightning Washington Capitals ADAMS division (8 teams) Boston Bruins Buffalo Sabres Ottawa Senators Philadelphia Flyers Pittsburgh Penguins Quebec Nordiques Montreal Canadiens Toronto Maple Leafs PLAYOFFS: *Teams who finished 3-6 in each division will play a best-of-5 series like this; 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5. The winners would play a best-of-7, and the top two teams, who would have taken a break during the peliminaries, would also play a best-of-7. The winner of the best-of-7s would face the winner from their neighbor division in a conference battle best-of-7. (blah, I am really sick of saying 'best-of-7') For example, take at the look at the Adams division. Say Ottawa won their best-of-5 vs. Quebec, and Pittsburgh won their best-of-5 vs. Philadelphia. Then Boston & Pittsburgh would play a best-of-7, and so would Ottawa & Buffalo. If Buffalo won vs. Ottawa, and Ottawa won vs. Boston, Buffalo and Ottawa would face off in the division finals (lets pretend Buffalo won). The winner of the neighbor division (lets pretend its Atlanta), Atlanta, would battle Buffalo in the Conference Finals. Its still the usual 4 round of playoffs but with a peliminary round for the middle 4 teams. 6 teams from each division would make the playoffs; it would be exciting and keep the fans happy. I think its fair as well. You'd have to really blow to miss these playoffs. I'm pretty sure there are still some flaws in my work, but so far it sounds cool to me! Do you know what I'm saying? Basically I stole the idea from the the NHL proposal and made it to fit my vision for the NHL.
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Post by HartfordWhalers on Apr 19, 2005 14:58:24 GMT -5
Man I'd love to see the NHL with that lineup. Full marks to BleedOil!!
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Post by Laurier on Apr 20, 2005 13:59:24 GMT -5
The one big problem with these preliminary playoff rounds is that a lot of people already complain that the NHL playoffs go on for to long in the first place. The Stanley Cup is usually decided in June, if they were to do this then they'd have to cut the regular season back or something.
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Post by MOC on Apr 20, 2005 16:29:30 GMT -5
then they'd have to cut the regular season back or something. I'm all for that.
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Post by joelzillmanwpg on Apr 20, 2005 17:38:27 GMT -5
The one big problem with these preliminary playoff rounds is that a lot of people already complain that the NHL playoffs go on for to long in the first place. The Stanley Cup is usually decided in June, if they were to do this then they'd have to cut the regular season back or something. I agree that the season may be too long, but I would rather cut back the first round of the playoffs to "best-of-5" series, just like it used to be in the eighties.
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Post by hatrick007 on Apr 22, 2005 10:01:48 GMT -5
I agree that the season may be too long, but I would rather cut back the first round of the playoffs to "best-of-5" series, just like it used to be in the eighties. No way! 1st round is by far the most exciting usually!
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Post by joelzillmanwpg on Apr 22, 2005 12:42:30 GMT -5
That's only because after a gruelling 7 game series, many of the teams get emotionally burnt out. I remember, before they implemented the best-of-7 first round series in 1987, it would always be the division finals (second round) that woould be the most thrilling to watch. I still remember the classic battles of Alberta, between the Flames and Oilers that would go 7 games, more often than not. Or the Islanders-Flyers battles of the early-mid 80's. Additionally, the Jets would have never blew so many 3-1 leads!
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Post by ottawasenators on Jun 13, 2005 17:56:51 GMT -5
My opinion: these teams will fold, buffalo, pittsburg, carolina, florida, aneheim
Northeast
ottawa toronto quebec city montreal boston
South East
Atlanta Tampa Bay Washington nashville New Jersey
Atlantic
Philadelphia NYR NYI Washington Hartford
Northwest
Calgary winnipeg edmonton vancouver minnesota
Central
Colorado Detroit Chicago St. Louis Columbus
Pacific
Oklahoma - winks to Joel San Jose LA Phoenix Dallas
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Post by MOC on Jun 16, 2005 13:16:16 GMT -5
South East Atlanta Tampa Bay Washington nashville New Jersey Atlantic Philadelphia NYR NYI Washington Hartford I don't think you can split up NYI/NYR/NJD. They belong in the same division, geographically and for rivalries. Switch Washington to the Southeast and New Jersey to the Atlantic, and things'd be better.
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Post by ottawasenators on Jun 18, 2005 14:14:31 GMT -5
sorry bout that mess up. I think wash. was in the south east div. to begin with werent they?
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