Showing posts with label REALIGNMENTGATEAPALOOZA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label REALIGNMENTGATEAPALOOZA. Show all posts

Friday, December 9, 2011

More Realignment Talk

Welcome back to Some Schmuck Whines about Hockey, with your host, Some Schmuck. I posted some on Tuesday about how the geographic realignment isn't so bad and some on Friday about how the loss of rivalries is heartbreaking.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Realignment Part Two: The heartbreaking part

I started to talk about the new realignment here, and it ended pretty positively. That can't be right. Let's take a look at the reasons it sucks, starting with schedule.

On realignment (the part that doesn't suck)

In line with today's announcement that the NHL's Board of Governors has approved a crazy new realignment of the NHL, here begins a 2-part (probably) discussion of why I don't hate it and why I hate it.

In this piece, let's talk about the actual alignment of teams, which is the part I don't hate. Of course, the current alignment suffered some problems recently, as the Jets now find themselves on jets a little too often. As Gary Bettman said, "I had nothing against the existing format, and but for the move to Winnipeg we wouldn't be looking to change it."