Today, the NHL sent a note to all 30 teams to explain how it sees realgnment:

-2 associations, 2 divisions per association

East:
Central division (Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Buffalo, Ottawa, Florida TB, Detroit)
Atlantic division (Carolina, Columbus, NJ, Washington, NYR, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, NYI)

West
Midwest division (Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota, Nashville, St. Louis, Winnipeg)
Pacific division (Anaheim, Calgary, Edmonton, LA, Phoenix, SJ, Vancouver)

Top three teams of each division qualify for the playoffs. The remaining top two teams in the association also qualify. First two rounds of the playoffs within division, then the third one in the association.

Home-and-home against each team of the other association.

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14 teams keeper league (rebuilding)
4LW,4C,4RW,6D,2G
G=1 A=1 W=2 SO=3

LW: Wheeler, Laich, Hudler, Backlund, Regin
C: Umberger, Eakin, Brassard, Park
RW: Butler, K. Palmieri, Skille, T. Ruutu, Moss
D: Giordano, Bogosian, Coburn, Niskanen, Kubina, Wilson
G: Khudobin, Nabokov

Detroit in with Ontario!
WHAT!

Source please?

The new divisions make sense with Winnipeg getting a logical home (although no Canadian rivals). Also Detroit must love this new setup against all these marquee teams and Columbus finally shifts East. I think they realized they needed some balance to making the playoffs between the 7 and 8 team divisions and that's where the wildcard compromise comes in, a good idea IMO given the varying sizes of the conferences.

Finally I hate the name "associations". Why not stay with 2 conferences and 4 divisions? Associations reminds me of the "Legends" and "Leaders" names used in college's Big 10 conference, sounds lame.

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12 team H-2-H 1 year league, daily roster 3 goalie start minimum
2xC, 2xRW, 2xLW, 4xD, 3xUtil, 2xG, 5 Bench
G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA
C: Stamkos,Thornton, Riberio, Stepan, Desharnais, Clune
LW: Moulson, Dupuis, Prust,
RW: Kessel, P. Kane, Wheeler, Stempniak
D: Hamonic, Zidlicky, Franson, Muzzin
G: Bryzgalov, Hiller, Fasth

TSN Story:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=416887

EDIT: My favorite part of the story is this:
"The regular season schedule would see teams play every team in the other conference home and away."

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12 team H-2-H 1 year league, daily roster 3 goalie start minimum
2xC, 2xRW, 2xLW, 4xD, 3xUtil, 2xG, 5 Bench
G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA
C: Stamkos,Thornton, Riberio, Stepan, Desharnais, Clune
LW: Moulson, Dupuis, Prust,
RW: Kessel, P. Kane, Wheeler, Stempniak
D: Hamonic, Zidlicky, Franson, Muzzin
G: Bryzgalov, Hiller, Fasth

Oups...

Thought I copied/pasted it at the top of the post. sorry.

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14 teams keeper league (rebuilding)
4LW,4C,4RW,6D,2G
G=1 A=1 W=2 SO=3

LW: Wheeler, Laich, Hudler, Backlund, Regin
C: Umberger, Eakin, Brassard, Park
RW: Butler, K. Palmieri, Skille, T. Ruutu, Moss
D: Giordano, Bogosian, Coburn, Niskanen, Kubina, Wilson
G: Khudobin, Nabokov

Oh sweet Jesus, Datsyuk in Buffalo!! That's like dying while have sex.

If ya gotta watch your team lose, might as well be to Datsyuk.

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Four out of three people have difficulty with fractions

Commish - Twisted Wrister Fantasy Hockey League

12 team, $$$, 24 players, Weekly, H2H, limited keeper (8), multi-cat (G, A, PIMs, Hits, SOG, HT/ W, GA, SV%, SO)

Start: 2C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, 2G

That's interesting.
The Western teams would then play 32 games (16x2) against the Eastern teams.
The Eastern teams would then play 28 games (14x2) against the Western teams.

I wonder how they'd even this out.
And could that lead to a different amount of games (80? 84?)

Maybe the Western teams play a 6x5 + 7x3 + 16x2 = 83 games.
Maybe the Eastern teams play a 7x5 + 8x(2.5) + 14x2 = 83 games.

How about 5 games vs. teams within the same division, 2 games vs. teams within the same conference and 2 games vs. teams in the other conference. That would leave Eastern teams with 79 games and Western teams with 76 games. Then add some additional games vs. teams within same division/conference to round it to 82 games?

Western teams play a 6x5 + 7x2 + 16x2 = 76 games. (add another 6 games)
Eastern teams play a 7x5 + 8x2 + 14x2 = 79 games. (add another 3 games)

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UHL Pittsburgh Penguins

24 Team Fantrax Salary Cap H2H Dynasty League Daily
G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, Blks, FOW
W, GAA, SV, SV%, SO
23 Man Roster - 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 3F, 6D, 1G, 4BN, 4IR
27 Man Minor Team

C- Tavares, Stepan, Hodgson, Shaw, Bjugstad
LW- Ryan, Perron, Downie, Killorn, Rinaldo
RW- Wheeler, Simmonds, Coyle, Frattin, Boyes
D- Pietrangelo, JJ, Bogosian, EJ, Josi, Cowen, Muzzin
G- Lehtonen

F: Granlund, Silfverberg, Jensen, Dalpe, Bowman, Knight, Fasth, JAM
D: Beaulieu, Koekkoek, Gelinas, Pysyk, McCabe, Irwin
G: Nilsson, Nilstorp, Ramo, Berra, Brossoit, Gibson

meh , not a big fan of uneven division / conference sizes .

would prefer a simple swap of Nashville into the current southeast div & Jets into the midwest.

Article says that the first two rounds of the playoffs will be divisional yet by the way the playoff qualifying system works, it is possible for five teams from one division and three teams from the other to make up the eight playoff team in an association.

So if only three teams in a given division make the playoffs, who and what will determine which team will be the fourth team to make the first two rounds of the playoffs divisional?

Will one of the five teams in the opposing division, "crossover" into the other division to become the fourth or missing team? Then, if that "crossover" team ends up winning the first two rounds, will they be crowned champions of the division they "crossed over" into?...even though they belong in the other division.