So the NHL Board of Governors have approved a new alignment format for the 2012-2013 season.
The new alignment is very similar to the old alignment. If you remember the old Norris, Smythe, Patrick and Adams divisions of the 80's, it is pretty much the same. The East and West conferences will be made up of two "conferences" (why they just don't call them divisions is beyond me-probably because there will be seven and eight teams in each instead of the manageable five or six; too many teams perhaps?) with the West having eight in each conference and the East made up of seven each
This has the Winnipeg Jet brass smiling as it means not only will the league's superstars coming to visit Winnipeg at least once a year instead of once every couple of years, but the chance to renew old rivalries with Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton and begin new ones with Chicago, Minnesota, St. Louis or Detroit.
