Thoughts on changing season schedules....

This year the NHL decided that they would move to a schedule where you would have to face every single team in the league at least once, reducing the divisional games and the conf matchups.

I personally like this and think it is cool since we get to see a bit more west coast hockey now. I don't like that there are only 6 Dev Rags games now but oh well.

What do you guys think if the NHL took it a step further and broke the league by random conferences rather then by geography? Kinda like the AFC and NFC or National and American league. I think this would be really cool but might eliminate a lot of the local rivalries that we love so much.

I was thinking about it and baseball and football aren't lacking in the rivalry dept so maybe it really wouldn't change but you would get a much different look and feel in the sport....

I dunno just a thought. Discuss...

Disagree 1000% on the divisional breakups. But that may be because of rooting for a team in this absolutely awesome division.

I thought the NFL missed a huge opportunity to move the Bills into a division with Cleveland and Pittsburgh on that last setup, so I couldn't even imagine the uproar that would come from trying to create "new" rivalries in the NHL.

I am a fan of the every-other-team schedule that's been implemented though. In fact, I'd say once that stupid trapezoid is gone, the league's ready to just let itself go for a few years without shaking anything up!

See I am torn. I like the divisional games against rags, isles, pitt, etc but I am not so attached to the conf games in Boston, Atlanta, etc.

Maybe they could swap a west division into the east and vice versa. So there would be an eastern and western division in each conf?