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February 23, 2013
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
New NHL re-alignment proposal.
posted by MeatSaber at 09:40 PM on February 23, 2013
New NHL re-alignment proposal.
Some things to like about this, particularly the Original 6 members being in the same division. I would rather see the league drop a pair of teams and go with 4 divisions of equal size rather than have to jigger the playoff structure. The problem remains of how you reimburse the owners of the dropped teams, but that can be solved by having a fair auditor place a value on each team, dividing that value into a number of "shares", then exchanging those shares to the owners that have been eliminated in return for the shares of their teams. These owners could then sell out, keep the shares, keep some of the shares, or whatever they want. In other words, even though they have been taken out of active ownership, they still have a stake in the success of the league if they so choose.
posted by Howard_T at 10:06 PM on February 23, 2013
The NFL according to British teens. via Reddit. Goodell's right, they are chomping at the bit to get football over there.