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Post by Speagles84 on Apr 7, 2019 20:12:51 GMT -5
Personally I'd like to see NHL adopt a completely new model to help aid intra-Canadian competiton rpvan , since the teams never win Stanley Cup any longer, at least give them something to fight for. Here's what I'd do: Relocate Arizona's deficit and almost bankrupt franchise to Québec once Seattle is there and then make NHL a four-division divide rather than conference divide. Have three US and one Canadian division. Each division gets one spot for the Stanley Cup semi-finals, in which the Canadian division is affiliated with the Western division, which would secure there's one eastern team and one Canadian/western team in the final every year. Alternatively, the Canadian and Central divisions could swap their affiliation between East/West every other year to make it interesting and variable which teams they're facing  The divisions would be like this: Canada: Calgary Edmonton Montréal Ottawa Québec Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Western: Anaheim Dallas Colorado Los Angeles Minnesota San Jose Seattle Vegas Central: Carolina Chicago Columbus Detroit Florida Nashville St. Louis Tampa Bay Eastern: Boston Buffalo New Jersey NY Islanders NY Rangers Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington Then, you play your division six times (7 x 6 = 42) and then your affiliated conference three times (3 x 8 = 24) and then the other 16 teams once (1 x 16 = 16). Schedule plans would be resolved by having the Eastern Canadian teams play two games in a row at home a lot more often than the others. Then once the playoffs started, revert to the 80's model where the divisions play one another internally until each division winner is crowned. That way, Canadian teams would get to win a national championship every year regardless of how the Cup ended. Sadly, it makes too much sense for the tools running the NHL ever to implement it. The joke is on them. NHL has been dire ever since they imposed the laughingly low salary cap that ended "top teams" and dynasties for good. Nowadays you mostly have to be lucky to get #1 draft the right year and then the franchises with the greatest revenues are disarmed. Doesn't matter, Pens are going to win #6 this year. Lord Stanley's home is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sorry Canada. Don't worry, it's only 4 hours over the border 😛 |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 8, 2019 6:00:48 GMT -5
Real talk Speagles84 ! To be fair, Pens are as big as it gets outside of the original six and at least are in a city which has a winter. Much rather them than Kings, Ducks and Lightning even though I prefer Red Wings or Canada It's rather undeniable though that interior northern cities like Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Minneapolis are in hockey climates! |
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Post by rpvan on Apr 8, 2019 17:34:12 GMT -5
I saw there was a study where Canada has as many hockey fans as the US with nine times more people have individually. That ought to mean that a Canadian league in itself could stand on its own legs even in a breakaway, because there's a huge TV market. I don't know whether 10, 11 or 12 franchises would be sustainable, Québec, Halifax and promoting Hamilton Bulldogs would be givens if the seven Canadian franchises would just walk away. Saskatoon could definitely sustain a Canadian Hockey League team too. Then they can pick up the young Canadian players and have limitations on non-Canadian players and completely break half of the NHL's audience figures and take the hockey world over, since Los Angeles vs Tampa Bay isn't exactly hockey weather, is it? rpvan
Some Canadian players would probably still choose to play in the US, but it'd be a lot more fun for Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Ottawa et cetera to win the championship.
Some of the teams in the league just make absolutely no sense. It's such a joke; Phoenix is 40C half the year and has a hockey team. And understandably, they're losing buckets of money, along with the Florida Panthers. |
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Post by rpvan on Apr 8, 2019 17:35:12 GMT -5
Personally I'd like to see NHL adopt a completely new model to help aid intra-Canadian competiton rpvan , since the teams never win Stanley Cup any longer, at least give them something to fight for. Here's what I'd do: Relocate Arizona's deficit and almost bankrupt franchise to Québec once Seattle is there and then make NHL a four-division divide rather than conference divide. Have three US and one Canadian division. Each division gets one spot for the Stanley Cup semi-finals, in which the Canadian division is affiliated with the Western division, which would secure there's one eastern team and one Canadian/western team in the final every year. Alternatively, the Canadian and Central divisions could swap their affiliation between East/West every other year to make it interesting and variable which teams they're facing The divisions would be like this: Canada: Calgary Edmonton Montréal Ottawa Québec Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Western: Anaheim Dallas Colorado Los Angeles Minnesota San Jose Seattle Vegas Central: Carolina Chicago Columbus Detroit Florida Nashville St. Louis Tampa Bay Eastern: Boston Buffalo New Jersey NY Islanders NY Rangers Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington Then, you play your division six times (7 x 6 = 42) and then your affiliated conference three times (3 x 8 = 24) and then the other 16 teams once (1 x 16 = 16). Schedule plans would be resolved by having the Eastern Canadian teams play two games in a row at home a lot more often than the others. Then once the playoffs started, revert to the 80's model where the divisions play one another internally until each division winner is crowned. That way, Canadian teams would get to win a national championship every year regardless of how the Cup ended. Sadly, it makes too much sense for the tools running the NHL ever to implement it. The joke is on them. NHL has been dire ever since they imposed the laughingly low salary cap that ended "top teams" and dynasties for good. Nowadays you mostly have to be lucky to get #1 draft the right year and then the franchises with the greatest revenues are disarmed. Doesn't matter, Pens are going to win #6 this year. Lord Stanley's home is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sorry Canada. Don't worry, it's only 4 hours over the border 😛 Go Winnipeg!!! Though I wouldn't be too sad if the Pens won the cup this year; Pittsburgh is a proper hockey town. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 8, 2019 17:41:50 GMT -5
With Calgary winning the Western Conference... maybe, just maybe?
By the looks of things, Tampa is going to take some stopping though. Maybe Pens or Caps could frustrate them through experience?
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Post by rpvan on Apr 12, 2019 1:37:01 GMT -5
With Calgary winning the Western Conference... maybe, just maybe? By the looks of things, Tampa is going to take some stopping though. Maybe Pens or Caps could frustrate them through experience? This post didn't age too well.  Only game one though. Tampa surely will get their act together....right? |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 12, 2019 6:32:55 GMT -5
This post didn't age too well. Only game one though. Tampa surely will get their act together....right?
Anyway, it's just one game out of even. They've maded it a bit more difficult than it should be with that bashering on their backs at home, but still they just need to win one of the games in Ohio to be on the front foot again. Also in Swedish hockey, home advantage just seems to be less and less for every year in the playoffs. Once (2015-16 ish sometime), Skellefteå and Växjö lost all seven finals at home Eventually Växjö winning game seven. |
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Post by Speagles84 on Apr 12, 2019 12:55:21 GMT -5
Lascia andare le Pens!
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Post by rpvan on Apr 12, 2019 21:14:09 GMT -5
This post didn't age too well. Only game one though. Tampa surely will get their act together....right?
Anyway, it's just one game out of even. They've maded it a bit more difficult than it should be with that bashering on their backs at home, but still they just need to win one of the games in Ohio to be on the front foot again. Also in Swedish hockey, home advantage just seems to be less and less for every year in the playoffs. Once (2015-16 ish sometime), Skellefteå and Växjö lost all seven finals at home Eventually Växjö winning game seven. And now they've lost game two at home 5-1! |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 13, 2019 6:05:49 GMT -5
I'd say they're likely to be done...
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 5:47:09 GMT -5
I've heard there's continued trouble with regards to Lord Stanley's trip to Pittsburgh this summer?  Speagles84 |
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Post by Speagles84 on Apr 15, 2019 12:18:05 GMT -5
I've heard there's continued trouble with regards to Lord Stanley's trip to Pittsburgh this summer? Speagles84 Well obviously. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 15, 2019 13:57:15 GMT -5
To be fair, could be worse, could've been Maple Leafs and gone 50 years... |
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Post by Speagles84 on Apr 16, 2019 8:14:17 GMT -5
To be fair, could be worse, could've been Maple Leafs and gone 50 years... We also won 2 of the last 3 Stanley cups |
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Post by rpvan on Apr 18, 2019 17:18:22 GMT -5
Tampa Bay have now become the first ever team to win the presidents trophy and not win a single playoff game. Should change their name to Tampa Bay bottlejobs. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 19, 2019 7:17:30 GMT -5
Tampa Bay have now become the first ever team to win the presidents trophy and not win a single playoff game. Should change their name to Tampa Bay bottlejobs. Tampa Bay Shipwrecks maybe as their new name? That must be the largest ever Floridian iceberg they hit.
Speaking of Tampa, Yzerman now appears to have gotten the big job at Red Wings. Given all he did for them as a player, that's definitely very exciting.
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Post by rpvan on Nov 3, 2020 12:44:26 GMT -5
Personally I'd like to see NHL adopt a completely new model to help aid intra-Canadian competiton rpvan , since the teams never win Stanley Cup any longer, at least give them something to fight for. Here's what I'd do: Relocate Arizona's deficit and almost bankrupt franchise to Québec once Seattle is there and then make NHL a four-division divide rather than conference divide. Have three US and one Canadian division. Each division gets one spot for the Stanley Cup semi-finals, in which the Canadian division is affiliated with the Western division, which would secure there's one eastern team and one Canadian/western team in the final every year. Alternatively, the Canadian and Central divisions could swap their affiliation between East/West every other year to make it interesting and variable which teams they're facing The divisions would be like this: Canada: Calgary Edmonton Montréal Ottawa Québec Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Thanks to covid... we may see a Canadian division formed for the upcoming season: www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/canadian-division-nhl-bubble-1.5787242?fbclid=IwAR27dkfQDthSGd0Cud2ZWHaFg40EIIF4jpiMNfRt1X_rKleVO3GRLWz4mhU |
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Post by rpvan on May 14, 2021 16:32:27 GMT -5
The league's most classic rivalry in the first round of the playoffs this season with Toronto and Montreal going head to head for the first time since 1979.
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Post by Doña Jimena on May 26, 2021 14:56:23 GMT -5
World hockey championship is held in Latvia. I don't care about hockey, but... Brits have won for the first time since 1962, 4 to 3 against Belarus tonight. Congrats!
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Post by Ariete on May 26, 2021 15:04:23 GMT -5
World hockey championship is held in Latvia. I don't care about hockey, but... Brits have won for the first time since 1962, 4 to 3 against Belarus tonight. Congrats!
And the mayor of Riga took down the official flag of Belarus from the hotel flagpole and replaced it with the white-red-white flag. And when the IIHF told him to take down the resistance flag, he took down the IIHF one as well.  |
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