NHL EXPANSION BEYOND 32 TEAMS

NHL HHOF · February 19

Brewin Flames · February 19

Garbage....the NHL does not need, or should not add any new teams.

Edited February 19 by Brewin Flames

NHL HHOF · February 19

thegx.ca · February 20

Add up to 36 I say...even 9 per division

Icechipper · February 20

Asking price could be $2 billion, I've seen speculated.

SaucyJack · February 20

2 hours ago, thegx.ca said:

Add up to 36 I say...even 9 per division

Of course, it means a new formula of how often one plays each team in one’s division, in the other division in your conference, and the other conference. Several choices to make, including whether to only play some teams in the other conference once.

I disagreed with 32 being perfect as far as playoff achievement. NFL and MLB still only allow less than half to qualify for postseason, despite expanding those fields in recent years. (I.e., 16 in, 20 out, is OK in my view.)

thegx.ca · February 20

9 hours ago, SaucyJack said:

Of course, it means a new formula of how often one plays each team in one’s division, in the other division in your conference, and the other conference. Several choices to make, including whether to only play some teams in the other conference once.

I disagreed with 32 being perfect as far as playoff achievement. NFL and MLB still only allow less than half to qualify for postseason, despite expanding those fields in recent years. (I.e., 16 in, 20 out, is OK in my view.)

Yeah less than half should ever make the playoffs can't ever go over 16 making post season in my opinion...as for regular season schedule gotta make it simple that every team has to see every opponent at least once per regular season and the further the travel less the see of search other but ok less travel time means seeing more of those teams and same East vs West Cup finals but the divisions can simply be NW/SW and NE/SE...