My Version of a 40 Team NHL
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2017
- It was an idea I had... literally before I had an internet connection. As someone mentioned it in a comment, I figured I could revisit it and explain how I worked out the schedule. Yes, it would mean adding nine teams and, no, I don;t believe it happens during my lifetime.
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1:59 Guys he literally just predicted the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals
Holy. 1 and 31 chance of saying the blues. 1 and 3 chance of saying it was because of a goalie. So 1 in 93 chance of him predicting this. Or a 1.01% Chance. Also I subbed to you
I just discovered this channel today.
At one point in my youth, I knew no one who even came close to my insane level of hockey fandom...but you, sir, take things to a whole new level.
Love it.
You should talk more about the league you created. I find it interesting
Yeah this is very interesting.
Go more in depth/ how the hell did you do it
Please do a more in depth video with some of the season stats from your league
kmoney cruze I agree
Blues riding a hot goalie to a cup?--Shannon, can you see the future lol? Also, this whole idea sounds wildly interesting and fun to me! Another wonderful video.
Uran sh'Voria just off by 25 yrs
I know this is an old video, but I love how he mentioned St. Louis riding a hot goalie to a Cup. Huh reminds me of the 2019 Blues
Good idea except you have Hamilton in the same division as Vancouver
I'd love to know how you "simulated" your league
That was me who commented about the 40 team league😉
Holy crap! I do something similar, I've created my own Alternate Timeline with not just the NHL, but the NFL, MLB, and the NBA. I had the Canucks beating the Canadiens in the Stanley Cup in 1984 listed as the greatest Stanley Cup ever.
somewhere around the 2min mark: Blues had a hot goalie and won it in 1994??!! That's pretty much what happened in 2019! You're a genius Shannon ;-)
This reminds me of another dude who designs intricate maps of fictional islands and whatnot. Cool concept
holy crap, congratz on 12k subs already
Dysliptic now over 100k
Dude this guy is one of the most creative people out there. If there's anyone who can fix north American sports its this guy
This is commitment, I respect how creative and in depth the league u made is
This is so awesome and fun to think about. I wrote down on paper everything that you had on your board in the same order/alignment and realized that east/west conferences wouldn’t work so we would need to go with something more like the old Wales vs Campbell conference names for Stanley Cup playoffs seeding. I love your content so much!!! Thank you so much
I had to give this 40 team league a try.
Eastern Conference -
North East Division - Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Buffalo
South East Division - Tampa Bay, Florida, Carolina, Washington, Baltimore
Atlantic Division - Boston, NY Islanders, NY Rangers, Hartford, New Jersey
Metropolitan Division - Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit
Western Conference -
Pacific Division - Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Jose, Portland, San Diego
North West Division - Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg
South West Division - Arizona, Vegas, Colorado, Dallas, Houston
Central Division - Chicago, Minnesota, St. Louis, Nashville, Kansas City
James Hulse only concern, Washington is not south east. But I understand why you had to put them there
Nice but I would love to see Milwaukee have team
I used to do this. I wrote a whole story about how i got scouted in Highschool on some rec team and got to play for USA and the World Juniors. And i eventually went into the NHL Entry Draft and went somewhere in the 4th round by San Jose. And i went through my 25 season career with stats, trophies, playoff appearances, when i got traded. I went through that whole story all in memory, out of the blue. And watching this video was very satisfying because people called me crazy when i was alone at a lunch table, writing about a story that would never happen in a million years. But now i know there's other hockey fanatics out there that do things like that. This is awesome
This is really cool! But I'm curious as to how you wrote it. Was it like a novel? Was it from your point of view or not? I just thought this was really cool. Thanks!
it was from my point of view
Is it OK if I do something similar? Thanks!
Doesnt matter to me lol. Its all about having an imagination and a dream.
of course. thanks again!
Really liking these uploads keep up the great work!
Lets remake this one too. What a great idea! More Hockey teams! More Hockey!
I made a 60 team NHL, the teams are:
1 Boston Bruins (17,565)
2 Buffalo Sabres (19,070)
3 Detroit Red Wings (20,000)
4 Florida Panthers (19,671) (Relocated to Miami)
5 Montreal Canadiens (21,288)
6 Ottawa Senators (18,572)
7 Tampa Bay Lightning (19,092)
8 Toronto Maple Leafs (18,819)
9 Carolina Hurricanes (18,680)
10 Columbus Blue Jackets (18,144)
11 New Jersey Devils (17,625)
12 New York Islanders (15,795)
13 New York Rangers (18,006)
14 Philadelphia Flyers (19,543)
15 Pittsburgh Penguins (18,387)
16 Washington Capitals (18,506)
17 Chicago Blackhawks (19,717)
18 Colorado Avalanche (18,007)
19 Dallas Stars (18,532)
20 Minnesota Wild (17,954)
21 Nashville Predators (17,113)
22 St. Louis Blues (19,150)
23 Winnipeg Jets (15,294)
24 Anaheim Ducks (17,174)
25 Arizona Coyotes (17,125)
26 Calgary Flames (19,289)
27 Edmonton Oilers (18,641)
28 Los Angeles Kings (18,230)
29 San Jose Sharks (17,562)
30 Vancouver Canucks (18,910)
31 Vegas Golden Knights (17,368)
32 Tucson Cacti (16,321)
33 Seattle Kraken (19,280)
34 Quebec City Nordiques (15,176)
35 Hartford Whalers (14,750)
36 Surrey Saints (9,428)
37 Mississauga Astronauts (14,925)
38 Markham Thorns (7,134)
39 Laval Magma (11,271)
40 Halifax Sea Siders (16,297)
41 Prince Edward Royals (4,728)
42 Maine Ice (6,733)
43 New Hampshire Black Bears (18,907)
44 Yukon Horseriders (6,237)
45 Yellowknife Brawlers (4,023)
46 Alaska Aces (6,490)
47 Juneau Eskimos (3,275)
48 Portland Greens (20,784)
49 Hamilton Reds (17,383)
50 Houston Aeros (17,800)
51 Kansas City Racers (18,972)
52 Cleveland Barons (18,544)
53 Salt Lake Mavericks (12,600)
54 Milwaukee Panthers (14,089)
55 Oklahoma City Electrics (15,152)
56 Indiana Greats (6,800)
57 Montreal Maroons (19,814)
58 Atlanta Thrashers (17,624)
59 Dakota Daredevils (11,643)
60 San Diego Bulls (21,309)
Stadium capacities and the note on Florida are in brackets.
American Division:
1 Columbus Blue Jackets
2 Buffalo Sabres
3 Washington Capitals
4 Hartford Whalers
5 Atlanta Thrashers
6 Chicago Blackhawks
Atlantic Division:
1 Indiana Greats
2 St Louis Blues
3 Carolina Hurricanes
4 Tampa Bay Lightning
5 Florida Panthers
6 Boston Bruins
North-East Division:
1 Philadelphia Flyers
2 New Jersey Devils
3 New York Islanders
4 New York Rangers
5 New Hampshire Black Bears
6 Maine Ice
South Canada Division:
1 Hamilton Reds
2 Mississauga Astronauts
3 Surrey Saints
4 Winnipeg Jets
5 Ottawa Senators
6 Toronto Maple Leafs
South-West Division:
1 Arizona Coyotes
2 Vegas Golden Knights
3 Tucson Cacti
4 Nashville Predators
5 Dallas Stars
6 Houston Aeros
Great Lakes:
1 Cleveland Barons
2 Milwaukee Panthers
3 Markham Thorns
4 Minnesota Wild
5 Pittsburgh Penguins
6 Detroit Red Wings
Canadian Division:
1 Laval Magma
2 Halifax Sea Siders
3 Prince Edward Royals
4 Quebec City Nordiques
5 Montreal Canadians
6 Montreal Maroons
Central Division:
1 Kansas City Racers
2 Oklahoma City Electrics
3 Salt Lake Mavericks
4 Dakota Devils
5 Vancouver Canucks
6 Colorado Avalanche
Great white North and Albertan Division:
1 Yukon Horseriders
2 Yellowknife Brawlers
3 Alaska Aces
4 Juneau Eskimos
5 Calgary Flames
6 Edmonton Oilers
Pacific League:
1 LA Kings
2 San Jose Sharks
3 San Diego Bulls
4 Anaheim Ducks
5 Portland Greens
6 Seattle Kraken
You Play the teams in your division 4 times each (20 games)
You also play the teams in the rival division twice (12 games)
You also play all the other teams once (48 games)
Total: 80 Games
Preseason - 4 Games
Regular Season - 80 Games
Playoffs - Up To 26 Games
Rival Divisions:
Canadian Division - Great White North and Albertan Division
South Canada Division- American Division
South-West Division - Atlantic Division
Pacific League - Central Division
North-East Division - Great Lakes
How the playoffs work:
The top 3 teams from each conference automatically advance to the playoffs after the regular season ends. The four best fourth placed teams will play eachother in a single game playoff where the best fourth placed team hosts the fourth best fourth placed team and the second best fourth best team hosts the third best fourth placed team.
Then, the 32 teams remaining go into the playoffs.
In the two conferences where the fourth placed team made it through to the playoffs the team that won that conference would play the team who finished fourth in their conference while the team that came second would play the team that came third in that conference.
In the other conferences, the team that came first would play the team that came third while the eight teams who came second in their conference will play a nearby team, the combined travel time for those four games should be as low as possible between the eight teams.
The round of 32s fixtures are best of five, with the first two games being held one of the teams stadiums and the other 1-3 being held at the other teams stadium.
After the round of 32 has finished and there are 16 teams left the round of 16 starts, in the two conferences where the fourth placed team advanced to the round of 32 the two teams who won will play eachother, in the four other conferences where there are still two teams, those two teams will play eachother, the other four teams will be put into a group and will play the other teams twice each, totaling six games. The other games are best of seven, With the fixtures between Team A and Team B being Team A is at home for the 1st,2nd and 5th game while Team B is at home for the 3rd,4th,6th and 7th game.
Then is the quarter final, there will be 8 teams from 8 different conferences, every team will play the team from their rival conference, there will either be no teams or 2 teams who don't have a team from their rival conference remaining, if there are 2 teams remaining who don't have a team to play in their rival conference, they will play eachother.
The quarter final fixtures are best of 5, they use the same format as the round of 32 "the first two games being held one of the teams stadiums and the other 1-3 being held at the other teams stadium."
In the semi finals there is a draw to determine the fixtures, then there will be two games, both best of 5 using the same format as the round of 32 and the quarter final.
The Stanley cup final is held across three matches, the first match is held at the stadium of the team who got more points in the league than the other team, then the second game will be held at the other teams stadium, overtime will not be played in these games. Then, a third and final game will be played between the teams at a neutral stadium, if the game ends and the score from the 3 games combined is level, then it will go to 3 on 3 overtime, if 5 minutes have played and there neither team have scored, they will play another 5 minute period, if it's level after that, it's a shootout.
Trophies
Stanley Cup (Winner of the Playoffs)
Prince of Wales Trophy (Finalist of the playoffs)*
Presidents Trophy (Most points in Regular Season)
Clarence S. Campbell Bowl (Finalist of the Playoffs)*
Preseason Trophy (Winner of the Preseason tournament)
* = The team with the better league record decides on which trophy they get before the final, the other team, will get the trophy that the team with the better league record did not pick.
Preseason Trophy
The Preseason Trophy is made up of 16 teams:
- The top three teams from the finalists conferences (6 teams)
- The top two teams from the semi finalists conferences (4 teams)
- The top team from the other 6 conferences (6 teams)
In the round of 16, there will be a draw to determine the fixtures and to determine who plays the game at home and who plays it away. This game is a one off game.
The quarter finals, semi finals and final use the same format as the round of 16, "there will be a draw to determine the fixtures and to determine who plays the game at home and who plays it away. This game is a one of game."
The teams who have been knocked out or did not qualify for the Preseason Trophy will play other teams who have been knocked out or did not qualify for the Preseason Trophy in friendlies.
Yorkshire Ball how did you make the schedules or keep track of who played who?
Chance Settles I haven't get to the schedules, I've created the players for half the league.
Yorkshire Ball Alright because I’ve made all of the teams and divisions but honesty don’t think I can organize an 80 game schedule for 40 teams.
Chance Settles I'd just group the matches together, making all of the divisional games happen at the beginning and playing all of the games against the divisional teams in a row. I.e Calgary would start their season playing Edmonton, then the next three of their games would be against Edmonton.
Yorkshire Ball Alright so basically how in baseball they play teams in series?
Please restart this. It would be so cool to watch and I think I'm going to try it I'll probably only start with 8 but I'll see how far I go
I made something similar to this but in my hockey league, games were decided by the roll of the dice. I did it all throughout middle school and some of high school and people would see me sitting alone working away at this and wonder why I wanted to work for my free time. I couldn't answer that question but it was just what I loved to do. Loved this video 👍👍
you went 11k subs to 14k so fast! great channel best hockey channel on youtube! thank you for your insight
I love your content! Keep it up!
Cool video, quite an interesting concept sounds like you put alot of time into that league. This type of thing is fun to think about.
I'd like to see a video where you go over the stats of your league more. Even if it's a really long one
Congrats on 12K Subs 😎
This is really cool!! I like the idea of adding 9 more teams and you make a great point about keeping the playoffs the same. Maybe 1 day
I make whole leagues. I remade the International Hockey League-IHL that's my current project and it's a lot of fun
Pensacola Flyer i make custom team leagues in NHL 17. Lots of fun indeed
How do you do these custom leauges because i am extremely interested in making one
Michael Sukut me too bro! It was so fun making all the teams, and creating players. How do you play them, season?
Michael Sukut I wrote them on paper. Made logos and jerseys and names and either did a table hockey game or an NHL 17 or whatever year simulation
This is really cool. I may try this myself!
Wow, this is really cool! You've really put alot of effort into this. I wish I was that creative, maybe I'll try this sometime
volcanope I think I’m going to try it but with a different sport maybe
I really like this idea i want to try this thank you for sharing
Hey shannon, this was the video that got me into your channel a couple years ago. I used to do leagues like this back when i was a kid but with only 8-12 teams and less than 10 players on each. I thought i was crazy but it was cool to see someone else who did the same. I've been a fan ever since and I watch a lot of your videos daily. I'm starting up my own 48 team league this week with full custom rosters and schedule, and i'd love it if you could revisit this topic just explaining a bit more about it, id be super interested. Mad respect to you
In the 90s as a Broncos fan, I used to look at newspaper for scores and stats. Pre-internet. I can't imagine how much research you did manually for hockey stats in the mid 90s 😥
I could see the NHL one day adding teams in the GTA,Quebec City,Seattle,Houston,Kansas City and Portland,it would make two eighteen team conferences. Bob.
Janet Sampson why not hamilton?!?
At the first of the video when you were explaining what you did I was like "well he's lost it" but by the end of the video I was surprised that it actually made some sense lol
Now I know where you get your superb sense of narrative for the actual league seasons as they roll out.
Fantastic video. During the lock down you should have followed your league. It would gave been great as we could have gotten behind teams and players...
congrats on 12k subs!
This actually makes sense, I think that my head is broken now
Love this guy. Something I would do too. Gonna go create mine now.
So how did it turn out?
Just discovered this site...love the Canuck "Electric Skate"...almost as much as the "Flying V"!😁
This is fucking badass. I love that you are so uncontrollably obsessed. I'm 15 and I have spent so much of my life being the same way, with stats, history, rivalries and I'd go on for years through this simulation just like you do, except I do it in American Basketball and I used to do it in American Football to an extreme. I am willing to get into this hockey purely because of this, it proves to me that there is somebody else that is like me. I completely agree by the way on your view of expanding the playoffs. I completely agree. I'm also a big international soccer fan and they are expanding the World Cup in 2026 from 32 teams to 64. It ruines the purity, it makes qualifying for the world cup mean nothing. You're Canada has only qualified for the world cup once, but now they probably will every other world cup.
Holy shit same when I was little I made the 'Kids Football League' with players, stats, logos, unis, etc.
That is some serious dedication. Nice Canucks hat.
I also believe that the NHL will eventually expand to 40 teams but there are some cities I chose differently coming from an American.
I kept East and West Conference with 4 divisions of 5 teams in each conference.
East: Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast, & St. Lawrence
West: Central, Northwest, Pacific, Southwest
The Eastern Conference
ATL Div: BUF, CBJ, DET, PHI, PIT
NE Div: BOS, HFD, NJ, NYI, NYR
SE Div: CAR, FLA, TB, VB (Virginia Beach, VA), WSH
StL Div: MTL, OTT, QBC, TOR, TOR2
The Western Conference
CEN Div: CHI, MIL, MIN, STL, WPG
NW Div: CGY, EDM, POR, SEA, VAN
PAC Div: ANA, AZ, LV, LA, SJ
SW Div: COL, DAL, HOU, KC, NSH
My expansion cities were Hartford, CT; Houston, TX; Kansas City, MO; Milwaukee, WI; Portland, Oregon; Quebec City, QC, CA; Seattle, WA; Toronto, ON, CA; Virginia Beach, VA
I could get behind this
Andre48 rather than a team in Virginia I would rather have a team in Cleveland they could easily support one, now with a renovated arena, I could see it. If San Jose can have an nhl and an AHL team, Cleveland could have a nhl team and move the monsters to Cincinnati or Louisville, or if you want, Virginia beach.
MrSportsCards72 I put a team in VB because they are building a new arena and the developers are pursuing a NBA or NHL team. Plus, I've always felt that Columbus represented the State of Ohio because it's in the middle of the state. For some reason I've felt like having two teams in Ohio for any sport that wasn't Cleveland v. Cincinnati feels weird whether it's Columbus v. Cleveland or Columbus v. Cincinnati
I like it but you missed Kansas City with I'm assuming should be in the central. Cleveland before Virginia Beach.
Minnesota Arctic Blast I put KC in my Southeast Division instead of Central to even out the divisions... I tried ways to fit it into the Central but it didn't work
This is crazy I just recently tried doing something of the same sorts and I ended up with a 64 team league. I have been spending weeks just trying to figure out how to divide the divisions.
Do a 1000 team NHL
Wanna be my dad
2 conferences of 500 teams, 5 divisions per conference of 100 teams each, 4 sectors for each division of 25 teams, and then 5 segments in each sector each made of 5 teams. All the divisions, segments, and sectors only matter for a regular season schedule, which is 100 games. The ideal postseason would just be the top 16 teams overall make it and the 16 seed plays the 1, the 15 plays the 2, and so on. You would have to expand overseas because 1000 teams is insane.
What we have created here is a worldwide organization of hockey, or WOH.
Also thanks for planting this idea in my head I'm gonna make a whole thing now
4 conferences of 250 teams
5 Divisions of 50 teams each conference
512 playoff teams
First 10 teams of each division makes playoffs
The rest are wild card teams
The nhl would be less prestigious than the echl if they did that.
duuuude Berlin blew out Canberra last night it was insane
This is basically what I did in previous NHL games. I'd go through every team and make a player or two where they were struggling and help each team contend for a playoff spot. I had mostly a different team win the cup every year and no team had more than 100 points. A lot of really good teams missed the playoffs by maybe a few points then they would make it the next year.
Please make another video on how you did it and more players from your league. Did you have players that dominated the league? Did you have a league with a Golden State and Cleveland feel to it where there were regular faces in the finals? and how did you format it all?
I like the Rangers winning a lot! Very creative, that's a lot more than I could ever do.
Love it. Houston would be SW (Texas) and Hartford (bring em back!) would be E.. just southeast of Boston
I would love to see you keep this up again and make a site where people can track the teams. Call it the Fantasy Hockey League or something, that would be awesome
New sub your out of your mind and I love it great job go whalers!!! Go islanders
I used to do this too when I was a kid. But I only had a 10 team league cuz I Didnt want to make up/keep track of that many players or teams.
I would actually play the games tho. When I was really young, I would use my closet as a net, and shoot a rolled up sock at myself with one of those little plastic hockey sticks and try to stop it with my body or a baseball glove. I remember one year for Christmas I got a CD player/stereo for Christmas, so whenever a goal was scored i would run over and turn it on and let music play for 10 seconds like a goal horn/song.
As I got older I realized it was too predictable, and I was showing favoritism and letting in goals for certain players/teams. So I started playing in my driveway. I had a really challenging system for "clearing the puck out of the defensive zone" and "entering the offensive zone", and then I had an overly large "crease" that i couldn't shoot inside of. And the only way to score was to hit the back upper post in the net.
Yeah, I had a sad/lonely childhood lol. But great video. Brought back so many memories.
Call me crazy, but it be cool if New Orleans have an NHL Team,
no one plays hockey in louisiana tho. it would just be a tourist attraction like vegas is and have no real fans and move after
Silly Llama 69 the old ECHL New Orleans brass say otherwise. The ONLY reason they left was because of the NBA team kicking them out of the arena they both shared. The attendance figures were great for AA level hockey
Stefan Moreno i
Stefan Moreno iiiiii
There might be a chance
I might have missed this but how did you calculate the stats for each player and team? Did you just randomly fill them in or did you have some kind of system?
Lmao the Blues did ride a hot goalie, quite the accurate prediction
Thats amazing
That's awesome I think that you made a 40 team NHL and ran stats like that. That would be something I think would be fun
I think I might do something like this but I'm gonna start with like as if the NHL didn't exist until like tomorrow or something and like start with 6 teams and start going at it that way
I can see a 36 team league. It would just build on what the divisions they have. The Pacific adds Seattle, Central gets Milwaukee and Houston, Metro gets either Atlanta or Hartford, and the Atlantic gets Quebec City. There could be relocation to add places like Portland or Hamilton but I just don't see relocation happening right now.
Here's my simple idea for a 40 team NHL
American Hockey Conference:
AHC North- Quebec Nordics,Winnipeg Jets,Chicago Blackhawks,Pittsburgh Penguins
AHC East- New York Rangers,Harfort Whalers,Toronto Maple Leafs,Washington Capitals,Boston Bruins
AHC South- Nashville Predators,St Louis Blues,Tampa Bay Lightning,Atlanta Thrashers,Houston Areos
AHC West- Vegas Golden Knights,Anaheim Ducks,Calgary Flames,Vancouver Canucks,Seattle Metropolitans
National Hockey Conference
NHC North- Detroit Red Wings,Montreal Canadiens,Ottawa Senators,Columbus Blue Jackets,Minnesota Wild
NHC East- Philadelphia Flyers,New York Islanders,Buffalo Sabres,New Jersey Devils,Indiana Adventurers
NHC South- Florida Panthers,Dallas Stars,Carolina Hurricanes,Memphis Cardinals,Kansas City Scouts
NHC West- Edmonton Oilers,Arizona Coyotes,Los Angeles Kings,San Jose Sharks,Colorado Avalanche
Just curious have you ever tried doing this in Franchise Hockey manager?
This is awesome
It would be awesome if you could do your 40 league NHL and show us it's progression starting with the next season going onward. I'd be interested to see how you'd see some players progress, who would win Cups and what players you'd create.
It would be fun to even include some of your viewers as ''players'' too!
That means 9 extra THG season previews
This is a great video
Hamilton playing out west? crazy travel time. How about Saskatoon? population of about 300,000 also the Sasktel can hold 15k and would be a natural rival for the Jets.
Very very cool.
St. Louis won a Cup? That's crazy talk!
I would love to be able just to read that book of stats. You should do some videos talking about it.
you would have loved nhl franchise mode as a kid. you can't add teams but you can change their jerseys and colours and swap them out, it's hella fun. i have a team in kansas city of course because you can add 1 team this year and i live in kansas city sadly, but i made new jerseys for the canucks, the bruins, the capitals, senators, preds, and a couple other im not remembering but man that took forever, pretty cool though, the nhl games have come a long way from when i was a kid.
This makes a ton of sense does the state of hockey in North America vave enough to fill in the expansion teams *if none are folded*
1:59 what 😂
Brilliant
As much as I like the idea of the 40 team league, I think the NHL will want to keep the time zones the same the best they can. For example, Winnipeg is two time zones apart from Vancouver, and Hamilton three zones apart.
I think the league would work under the following alignment:
Eastern Conference
NE: Boston, Hartford, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax
Great Lakes: Toronto, Ottawa, Buffalo, Cleveland, Hamilton
Atlantic: NY Islanders, NY Rangers, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
SE: Florida, Tampa Bay, Carolina, Washington, Columbus
Western Conference:
Central: Winnipeg, Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis
Midwest: Dallas, Houston, Colorado, Kansas City, Nashville
NW: Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland
SW: Arizona, Vegas, LA, Anaheim, San Jose
Overall, I like the exercise you offer on the 40 team NHL
I'd absolutely watch a series where you broke down the seasons etc.
So would I.
I really hope 40 Team NHL becomes reality
How is Hartford in the central when they're more northern than NY and NJ
Having the concept is one thing.....how did you come up with the stats, trades, streaks ect?
You should do it 1-31 prospect pools
It's not a league until the Kenora(Rat Portage)Thistles are Cup Champs!!!Oh man you have my Whalers back-nice!!!
How did you do the regular season? Did you keep track of every game and have your own calendar?
I've been trying to find those goalie mask stickers again.
Do you think that they could build a 40K arena with good sight lines???
Places like Toronto would totally benefit from something like that. I would love something like a retractable roof on an arena... When it snows the roof closes but when it's sunny... AKA COLDER than "Insert expletive here"
I personally think that if they can fill those huge football stadiums they should go for it.
Here would be my version
Western Conference
Canadian West - Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnepeg, Saskatchewan
Pacific - LA Kings, Oakland Sharks, Anahiem Ducks, Seattle, Portland
Northwest - Minnesota, Milwaukee, Chicago, Colorado, Utah
Central - Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Kansas City, St. Louis
Eastern
Canadian East - Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Halifax
Northeast - Boston, NY Rangers, NY Islanders, Buffalo
Southeast - Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Carolina, Washington, Baltimore
G2 - Columbus, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Detroit, Indiana
Can you please respond to what you think of this
You could switch Halifax for Hamilton and Baltimore for Hartford
Milwakeee will get a team before Halifax because Milwakeee is building a hockey rink
Rainydaze313 Milwaukee already has an AHL team
Halifax is an established hockey market that's been bidding for a team for years
Halifax has a pop of 400,000 if you include surrounding areas and not many big businesses so not really an ideal city for an NHL team.
Which is why they don't and won't have a franchise.
I live in Halifax, and a team here wouldn't work. We are too small compared to the other hockey markets. And our arena (ScotiaBank Centre) holds about 14 000. Other NHL arenas hold about 17 000 to 20 000. I think a lot of Halagonians would like an NHL team, but know it wouldn't work. We love our Mooseheads, and I think we are okay to stick with a QMHJL team. An NHL team is not the greatest idea for us, at least not right now.
In a hypothetical 40 team league I'd like to see a different playoff structure. 2 conferences and 8 divisions. The 1st team from every division gets a bye. 4 in each conference. The next beast 8 teams from each conference get a spot. 12 teams from each conference and 24 teams overall make the playoffs. Make the bye week and conference quarterfinals best of 5s and conference semis, finals, and the SC best of 7s. To compensate for the few extra games played a few games can be cut from the regular season.
Wish they make this happen. I would love it.
Few minor location things bother me, like Hamilton would not be in the NW. My relocation is primarily based on location, but tried to take rivalries into account. Chicago was one I kept trying to move to the midwest, but I couldn't really break up the NYC teams to accommodate that.
NW
VAN
CGY
EDM
SEA
POR
SW
LA
SJ
ARI
LV
ANA
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MW
COL
MIN
WPG
KC
STL
CEN
CHI
CLE
CBJ
DET
HAM
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NE
TOR
MTL
OTT
HFX
QC
MET
PIT
PHI
BUF
BOS
HAR
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Nhl franchise mode back in the day😂😂😂
Scrapper 39 lol
can u do a video on who wins the cup those years that u did this and the runner ups. that would be so interesting to see
I can see all those teams existing but the divisions would be more time zone friendly, I'm not use exactly where Hamilton is but I'm pretty sure it's near Toronto (I'm American) but wouldn't that mean the NW division is across all time zones
I have to say I find it kinda funny that you have Hartford in "Central" when 4 of the 5 teams in the "East" are further west than Hartford.
I want Hartford and Carolina in the same division. :)
His mlb reference about a first place team losing to a wild card. Reflection on Yankees vs Indians series?
Add: Houston, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Hampton Roads, Saskatchewan, Toronto 2, Kansas City, Portland to get to 40. Boise, Halifax, Quebec, Cleveland could work. Weirdly, Burlington and North Dakota have more hockey fans per capita than larger US cities.
You should do a series talking about the history of your league
I like it