Report: NHL, NHLPA discuss new realignment plan for next season

Love it.  I don't understand the rejection this idea gets. Teams that should be playing each, are.  It also sets it for NHL expansion with Seattle and Kansas City getting teams, which is my bet.  I know some hate the idea of expansion and some believe the NHL already has too many teams.  But it's a professional sport.  It's about money and TV.  So don't expect for teams to disappear and may as well start excepting that we won't be staying at 30 teams for long.

This is really dumb. Break up Chicago and the Red Wings? Terrible idea. And why St. Louis? Geographically, I think it makes more sense to make the Predators join the east. Having a Tennessee based team play in a division with other teams in the southeastern US. What a novel idea.

This is the most idiotic idea I have ever come across! The simple solution here is to move one team from the west(which should really be in the east anyway)such as columbums chicago or detroit to the east and move the obvious team the Winnipeg Jets to the west. Granted under this idea the team moving east would have to go into the southeast division but its better than having to travel to Winnipeg. The sad reality here is the NHL tried to get too big too quick by adding teams in markets that do not make sense. All of issues which are brought up by the moronic leader of the NHL Gary Bettman. The problem always starts at the top which is clearly the case with the NHL and a change needs to be made. Until then, we will continue to see moronic ideas like this one which frustrates the hell out of passionate fans like myself

This is all well and good until they want to expand to 32 teams and have to move those teams back, as they will again be the western most teams. Quebec is going to get an expansion team in the next 2 years. All their ducks are in a row to make that happen. If they put a team in Seattle or Kansas City it'll be just one moving conferences, but if they do move forward with another Toronto area team then that imbalance remains.

I used to love the NHL but the last ten years have killed the sport. A work stoppage that lost an entire season. Expansion has watered down the talent. And losing the contract with ESPN has cost the league valuable exposure. Maybe something like this can help bring back some excitement. The league needs it.

As a Red Wing fan, I'm all for this!    With more than half their games played in the other time zones, we don't get to watch many games. And come playoff time, it's worse as the games don't start until 10:00 pm EST.

Hey NHL- do something good and make these moves!