The Major League Baseball community is buzzing with talks of realignment. Commissioner Rob Manfred recently proposed the idea of shaking up the league’s structure if MLB adds an expansion team sometime in the near future.
Imagine the New York Yankees and New York Mets squaring off as permanent divisions rivals, or the Dodgers and Giants being split apart — a change that would feel just as shocking to hockey fans, as say, breaking up the New York Rangers and New York Islanders.
So let’s play the same game with hockey. We’re deep into the NHL offseason, and the League’s current four-division format isn’t bad, though maybe outdated.