belowthegoalline

On 4/6/2018 at 7:16 PM, djshockey97 said:

 They are probably going to be amazing.

First of all they already have a great lineup imagine next year after free agent signings and the draft so yea. 

Do you guys agree?

We don't know how free agents will view them. Or if they will spend big on free agents. I expect that we will see a conservative approach this summer. Maybe if next year proves this team isn't a fluke, we might see them in the Drew Doughty, Erik Karlsson, etc. talk (not sure what will happen with those), but this year I expect them to add on the fringes.

More of the draft and develop approach they wanted to do before this season.

On 4/6/2018 at 6:16 AM, hf101 said:

UMD returns to the finals with 10 freshman on their roster. The team got goals early by  Louie Roehl and Jared Thomas and held of Ohio State to only one goal by the Flyers prospect Tanner Laczynski's with a power-play goal in the third period.  They will play the #1 ranked Fighting Irish for the championship on Sunday.  

 

Let's go Bulldogs!

 

 

 

 

 

St. Cloud was the #1 team.

On 3/19/2018 at 6:09 PM, ruxpin said:

I kind of wanted to keep Arizona out west because of Vegas, but it really doesn't matter.   You have two Mountain Time Zone teams in Division 3 and two in Division 4.   Not ideal but not a horrible thing.   I guess 4 divisions/conference gets around that, but I really don't like 4x4.  The divisions are too shallow and become pointless after awhile.   And, really, having a division of just the 4 Mountain time zone teams really doesn't cut down on travel much for any of them.  Edmonton to Phoenix is about the same flight time as Edmonton to LA and as Winnipeg to Phoenix.   So, I think the travel works.

4 divisions would cut down on travel if you change how many games you play against your division and other divisions. (Hint: that topic is coming up soon)

Also, how does having eight divisions make things shallow? It would all depend on how the playoffs are structured. (Again, a topic I will talk about soon). If they give every division two teams in the playoffs, yeah you are going to screw someone over. But if every team gets one, and then you have 4 wild card teams, that would make it a little easier for teams in deep divisions to get in, and it keeps a bad team out of the playoffs. Like @WordsOfWisdom  said.

I agree the four division system makes sense. I just don't agree it's the best solution.

On 3/18/2018 at 9:13 AM, ruxpin said:

 

Division 3	Division 4
Edmonton Oilers	Anaheim Ducks
Calgary Flames	Los Angeles Kings
Colorado Avalanche	Arizona Coyotes
Winnipeg jets	Dallas Stars
Minnesota Wild	San Jose Sharks
Chicago Blackhawks	Seattle Whatchamahoozits
St. Louis Blues	Colorado Avalanche
Nashville Predators	Vegas Golden Knights

 

And you're going to shove Dallas from the Central Time Zone into the western most division? And bring Calgary and Edmonton over to the "Central"? Doesn't make sense to me.

2 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

Let's have 32 divisions and be done with it.     8 divisions are entirely too many but it may be the only reasonable way to manage it.   I think there are entirely too many teams.

32 is perfect for me. There is conference and division balance. The talent pool is big enough for 32 teams. I would not add any more for any reason. I thought 30 was fine, but 32 is good with me too.

@WordsOfWisdom 

I agree that this is not ideal for the Leafs. I'm not saying that this will be the final setup. I think they will ultimately end up being with Montreal, Ottawa, and Buffalo. There are so many different ways you could align everything (like the Pacific Division).

Maybe what looks better is putting Boston with the New Yorks and then putting DET, CBJ, PIT, and PHI together. I like that, too.

Let's stop pretending that Columbus is a joke of a team for five minutes here. Everyone goes up and down. Detroit will be a solid team in say five years, and the Leafs have been awful for how long? Toronto gets a lot of say, but they're not above any other team in this league.

Who do you shift out of the Pacific for Seattle? There will be 9 teams in the Pacific Time Zone. Vegas would be the eastern-most team. They would have a ridiculous amount of travel to Nashville and Chicago numerous times every year.

Either way, I think the 8-division format is better because it alleviates some of those issues.