Bettman not sure what to expect from realignment

Baba Booey!

Translation: "I'm only here to make things worse. But the owners won't let me this time. WAH!"

"as I sit here today...."

....my feet don't touch the floor.

"If you ask each of the 30 clubs what their preference is, my guess is you'd get 30 different preferences."

And therefore nothing is going to get done in the near future.

I'm guessing one thing is no more teams moving to the "Sun Belt".

"If you ask each of the 30 clubs what their preference is, my guess is you'd get 30 different preferences...

One fan's preference...



GET THE STARS OUT OF THE FRIGGIN' PACIFIC DIVISION!!!!!!!

QUOTE(#6):

Originally posted 09:25 AM ET  12.02 by Otis B. Driftwood

"If you ask each of the 30 clubs what their preference is, my guess is you'd get 30 different preferences... One fan's preference... GET THE STARS OUT OF THE FRIGGIN' PACIFIC DIVISION!!!!!!!

Be careful what you wish for Otis. They may end up in the Northeast. Anything is possible when the Buttgoblin is involved.

This is how out of touch he is...he's using the radio.

Let's see, Rangers to the West Ducks to the East, and cut the legs off this damn podium

Ok, it's not hard: You can do it geographically pretty easily:

WEST:
NW - Van, Cal, Edm, Wpg, Min
SW - SJ, Ana, LA, Pho, Col
Central - STL, Chi, CBJ, Det, Pit

EAST
NE - Buf, Tor, Ott, Mon, Bos
Atlantic - NYR, NYI, NJ, Phi, Was
SE - Fla, TB, Dal, Nas, Car

Geographically, it makes sense (get a map and draw circles around the divisions). As a Penguins fan, I'd be disappointed moving to the central and losing the Flyers rivalry, but we would gain the NHL front office manufactured Red Wings rivalry and it would put Crosby and and Ovechkin in opposite conferences for marketing purposes. If you want to preserve more of the current structure, you can rotate Pit -> Atlantic, Was -> SE, and Nas -> Central and still make pretty good sense, geographically. That leaves:

WEST:
NW - Van, Cal, Edm, Wpg, Min
SW - SJ, Ana, LA, Pho, Col
Central - STL, Chi, CBJ, Det, Nas

EAST
NE - Buf, Tor, Ott, Mon, Bos
Atlantic - NYR, NYI, NJ, Phi, Pit
SE - Fla, TB, Dal, Was, Car

It's not rocket surgery, people.

QUOTE(#3):

Originally posted 09:14 AM ET  12.02 by Canuck eh?

"as I sit here today...."....my feet don't touch the floor.

Haha

Post of the day?

he looks like the count from seasame street. nailed it.

Put Winnipeg in the NW- Natural rivals with Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver
Put Minnesota to the Central
Put Nashville into the Southeast
Put Detroit in the Northeast
Send the Caps to the Central division

QUOTE(#12):

Originally posted 10:56 AM ET  12.02 by Maybe Next Year

he looks like the count from seasame street. nailed it.

Or Paul Anka.

once Phoenix moves to QC both detroit AND columbus can rejoin the east

QUOTE(#10):

Originally posted 10:37 AM ET  12.02 by abmoraz

Ok, it's not hard: You can do it geographically pretty easily:WEST:NW - Van, Cal, Edm, Wpg, MinSW - SJ, Ana, LA, Pho, ColCentral - STL, Chi, CBJ, Det, PitEASTNE - Buf, Tor, Ott, Mon, BosAtlantic - NYR, NYI, NJ, Phi, WasSE - Fla, TB, Dal, Nas, Car

This definitely makes more sense than what is currently in place.

"Bettman not sure what to expect from realignment."

Bettman is not sure what to expect when he goes to the can. But I'm pretty sure that was exactly what brought us to expansion into the "sun belt".

QUOTE(#17):

Originally posted 01:29 PM ET  12.02 by BeerClam16

"Bettman not sure what to expect from realignment."Bettman is not sure what to expect when he goes to the can. But I'm pretty sure that was exactly what brought us to expansion into the "sun belt".

LMFAO!

Hard to argue against you on that one, BeerClam.

QUOTE(#13):

Originally posted 11:08 AM ET  12.02 by Grandmaster Benzino

Put Winnipeg in the NW- Natural rivals with Calgary, Edmonton, VancouverPut Minnesota to the CentralPut Nashville into the SoutheastPut Detroit in the NortheastSend the Caps to the Central division

WPG won't be going into the northwest...

QUOTE(#6):

Originally posted 09:25 AM ET  12.02 by Otis B. Driftwood

"If you ask each of the 30 clubs what their preference is, my guess is you'd get 30 different preferences... One fan's preference... GET THE STARS OUT OF THE FRIGGIN' PACIFIC DIVISION!!!!!!!

Asinine Otis that is why as a I keep saying that they are going to 4 divisions adding 2 expansion teams (QC & southern Ontario )With the Pacific & Mountain time zone as one division and Central and Eastern as the second Basically adding Dallas Winnipeg and Minnesota to the central and sending Nashville to the East (the east coast teams all in the same time zone so they will argue rivalries The disparity in Eastern teams will always be there but as the sun belt teams move I suspect that a couple will move west