I'm personally leery on relocating teams, just because I think it weakens other teams. Tampa Bay is made more precarious if Florida moves. Dallas and Colorado are weakened if Arizona moves, whereas Las Vegas and Arizona benefit if both have NHL teams.
It's tricky trying to balance this off if 4 teams expand, and it's not desirable for the health of other existing teams if you expand by three and relocate one. If you only expand to Seattle in the West, I don't like the realignment having a EC team get punted back to the WC.
Lots of considerations out there.
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