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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Kind of OT, but I would love to see some type of inter-league challenge cup instead of a series of NHL all-star games. I just think the players would be playing harder and the results would be more interesting. Granted, the NHL teams would win more often than not, but I would expect some upsets and it would be interesting to see where different leagues stack up against each other in the world.
Include the top teams from the three big NA professional leagues and the top teams from the KHL, Swiss, German, Czech, Slovak, Austrian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, French, Italian, British and Danish leagues.
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I think that would be awesome actually. Europe already has a Champions League type tournament I believe, so the NA clubs could piggy back onto that.
I would just tweak it slightly. Drop a couple of those really bad leagues like Britian, and replace with a few entrants from the top leagues instead. A 16 team Champions League type tourney
1. Stanley Cup Champion
2. President's trophy winners (if same as SC winner, 2nd highest point total
3. SC runner up.
4. AHL Champion
5. AHL Regular season point winner
6. KHL Champion
7. KHL Runner up
8. KHL regular season point winner
9. Swiss Champion
10. German Champion
11. Czech Champion
12. Slovak Champion
13. Austrian Champion
14. Swedish Champion
15. Finnish Champion
16. Norwegian Champion
The bottom few league champions can be assigned coefficients (like they do in soccer) and they change out based on league strength from year to year.