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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I would love that, but that would really wreck and semblance of symmetry in the league. It's bad enough that we have an imbalance of 14 teams to 16 teams, but a conference split of 13 to 17 would be horrible.
For geographic purposes, the NHL is still going to pull out all the stops to keep the Coyotes there.
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That doesn't make any sense. The locations of the city aren't essential to drawing up the lines of the divisions or conferences. They'll figure it out if they have to. Reworking the divisions and keeping them even to relatively even is the least of their concerns.
As for trying to keep the Dogs in the Desert, well, I think even Bettman has had enough. They'll be moved if the city can get out of the lease. The thing he wants the most right now is 32 teams. That will include two expansion, and two moves. I suspect the moves will be Arizona and Florida.
It probably won't happen all at once though, so you'll see divisions reworked (or at least added to) two maybe three times yet till they get to a nice 4x8 division and 16/16 conference set up.
They'll do the best they can to keep it even, but it's going to be a bit messy for a while anyway, so I guarantee you they don't care. No getting around it. And not really a big deal anyway.