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Originally Posted by getbak
That makes no sense. They don't need to add teams to the East.
The league will almost-certainly not split up the Flames and Oilers and would probably prefer them to be in the same Division as the Canucks too.
The two most-likely scenarios would see either Arizona move into the Central with Seattle in the Pacific (even easier if the Coyotes were to move to Houston); or Colorado moves into the Pacific and the Flames and Oilers move into the Central.
Either way, the Pacific Division would have 6 Pacific Time Zone teams and 2 Mountain Time Zone teams; and the Central would have 6 Central Time Zone teams and 2 Mountain Time Zone teams. The advantage of keeping Arizona in the Pacific is that because Arizona doesn't go on DST, their time is in-sync with the Pacific for the first and last months of the season as well as all of the playoffs. The advantage of moving Arizona to the Central is that it keeps the 3 Canadian teams in the same Division and disrupts the fewest existing teams from the current status quo.
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I know that time zones are important but I would consider a North/South realignment.
Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Seattle, Minnesota, Colorado, Chicago. The rest go into the south.