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I must be on something, but I love this change. The return of INTENSE rivalries and divisional hatred will be astounding given the amount of times you'll see the same teams during the regular season and in the first and second round. Plus, the chance to play teams like the Canucks and Sharks in the Stanley Cup finals. Finally, the improved travel schedule should provide the wings the extra juice they need when making a deep run in the playoffs. Bravo Bettman, one of the few good things you've done. And LMAO at the Wings being one of the teams that voted against this, they basically got exactly what they were looking for, a dramatically improved travel schedule. Neg away...

What are you guys whining about? We'll dominate that division. Chicago is the only other powerhouse in our division. We'll have to play them in the playoffs perenially. It'll heat the rivalry up even more. I agree. People are forgetting the bolded part as well. It's a good deal.

Would you rather have us in a division with the Hawks, Pens and Bruins or something? And those reject teams are who we're playing against now.

Yup, a house of cheese is a great comparison in this scenario, Two for two so far. Also, using hashtags outside of twitter bro? C'mon...

Here's the division I was hoping we'd be in. Wings Penguins Sharks Canucks Bruins Flyers Blackhawks Capitals

It's not as good as just moving the Wings to the East but it is MUCH better than what we have now. Only 1 trip to Western Canada and 1 to the California. And in the playoffs we play the first 2 rounds in our time zone or the Central time zone. No flights to California in the first two rounds. We also see Montreal, Toronto and Boston for a home and home every year. I would prefer to play them more but as I said, it's a big improvement over what we have now.

So if I understood correctly... Zdeno Chara was around for the American Revolution?

I literally watched that 3 times.. and I have still got no idea what he was talking about.

It's not random selection, so it's not really 7% better chance. Larger pool size just means a better chance of the larger conference having more good teams. It's about as likely that the 5th-place team in one of the 7-team conferences will be better than the 4th in one of the 8-team. I'm kind of torn. I liked divisional playoffs and the rivalries created, and I like playing the first two rounds close to home (or at least no further than Dallas/Winnipeg). But this method creates such a large chance of someone getting screwed. Much better if they just went with the 4 conference winners + 12 wildcards.

"We're happy,'' general manager Ken Holland said. "Our fans should be excited and happy about it.'' http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2011/12/red_wings_brass_happy_excited.html so BE HAPPY! hehe

Backes would try to fight Zetterberg if he could. He's tough sure, but he's a bigger spot picker then Lucic. f*** Carcillo too though, dumb looking penalty machine

The cop out woulda been just to swap Detroit and Winnipeg. Drastically realigning the entire NHL was the hardest thing for them to do.

They didn't. If anyone got f***ed, it'd be Tampa and Florida, because of more travel.

A perfectly rational reaction to a format that has yet to even be announced or have a single game played under it.

I might have to agree with Mr. -49, I dont think Helm will ever win a Selke.

Exactly this is indeed already happening...I'm going to watch conspiracy theory and enemy of the state gather my thoughts and then post again, but be careful what you say guy's their watching you...

No suspension. At most he deserved 2 minutes. He tried to go around Ehrhoff, and couldn't easily do it. He ended up in a situation where he was charging the net hard with the puck and his options were to try and score (and possibly crash into Miller) or to throw himself onto the goal. I bet that would have been amusing.

If he had the puck and didn't leave his feet, thats a hockey play. He didn't have the puck, and he supermaned into him. That is intent to injure in my mind and Tootoo needs a suspension. I have no idea why i got negged, it seems that people may not like the idea of driving the net with the puck as being a hockey play.

In 2008 he was not yet married and had more arm/hand strength.

I know I'm probably in the minority here. But I really don't want to move to the East. The West has so much better competition, and so many big and small rivalries with us, which in turn means many more exciting great Red Wings games. I really hope we stay in the West, despite the time zone issue.

Who wears brown jeans? esteef

Hmm, Looks like an out of shape Micheal Weston. (Burn Notice Reference in case people don't know the show)

Jack Edwards is such an assclown.

1) I just woke up. 2) I haven't had anything to wake up my brain. 3) I have been living through the "migraine hangover" from yesterday's headache. Now that I have my excuses made, I just want to say that if he was talking about the Flight of the Octopus, I'd be totally on board with what he was saying. Unfortunately, I didn't quite catch what his topic was. But what the heck, let's just go with it. Everyone run over to Boston, throw an octopus in the sea, and we'll get the King of Montreal to surrender.