Do you think the NHL should shorten its season by 4-5 rounds (or perhaps the playoff series games by one) to make room for these three special events? "The stars come home."
Each NHL icehockey player &nonNHL declares which US state, Canadian province or foreign country he has slept more nights in than any other - this province is the home team he can play for. All are to have a U18 & an adults' team.
There would be four levels of competition in the US (the top 16 US states; the 2nd 16; the 3rd 16; the rest), a other nations tournament (for all European communities out there) and Canada too would have a team for each province or territory (with Toronto Met possibly split from Ontario), plus a U18s team for each prov too.
Round 1: Seed 1 versus 3; 2vs4; 5vs7;...
Round 2: W1 vs W2; L1 vs W3; L2 vs W4;...
Round 3: L1 vs W2; L2 vs W3;...
Round 4: gold, bronze, 5th placed matches & a best improvers' cup for upward movers among the rest
What do you think? Would it be popular?
2007-03-02 00:23:13 · 13 answers · asked by profound insight 4 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Did you lose any sleep dreaming this up? NHL is a business they aren't going to do anything that the current owners don't profit from. As far as under 18s are concerned, it would be interesting. Unfortunately, World Juniors and Memorial Cup keep these guys busy.
Under 16s exists in Canada as the Air Canada Cup I believe.
2007-03-02 02:17:44 · answer #1 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a good idea, but the players union and the NHL wouldn't go for shortening the season. You might get some kind of one-time exhibition series involving regions for, say, a weekend event or something, but nothing like what you're proposing. Perhaps something akin to Western Canada, Eastern Canada, US Northeast, US Midwest, Continental Europe, and Scandinavia as the regional teams, playing in a round robin event over the course of a week during the summer? Each team plays five games (three games a day at either the same or different venues), then the top four go to the medal round while the bottom two teams play for fifth place.
2007-03-02 00:59:46 · answer #2 · answered by jasonbondshow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's see we have:
The World Championships
The World Cup
The Stanley Cup
The Olympics
The Spengler Cup
The World Jr's
The Under 16s
The Memorial Cup
The Canada Winter Games
The Macs Major Midget
The Frozen Four
The CIS championships
Those are just some of the tournies that I have seen games covered on TV, and you want to add more? The World Juniors have enough problems getting attendance and TV coverage outside of Canada (why do you think they hold them here every 3 years....to make the money they need, as they will sell out NHL arenas for these games in Canada, and get 4000 in Europe for the same game).
2007-03-02 02:51:47 · answer #3 · answered by Nice Guy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is the World Hockey Championship that starts after the first round of the playoffs, so half the players are available for that. In August there is the Canada Cup (World Cup of Hockey), at Christmas there is the Spanglar Cup, World Jr Hockey Championship and World Under-18s. You think we need a 6th (7th if you count Olympics) tournament? The Stanely Cup is the greatest playoff in the world today, don't change it.
2007-03-02 00:48:13 · answer #4 · answered by kmsbean 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What the hell are you talking about? Shorten the schedule for some tournament that you just made up off the top of your head? This doesn't make any sense. Maybe if you re-think this one out, it might make sense for the NHL to shorten their schedule, which they don't need to do for any reason. If anything, 82 games is more manageable than the 162 games that Baseball plays every year! Now there is a league that might want to shorten their schedule at some point just for more player durability.
2007-03-02 06:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by Me 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What's the point? Hockey has plenty of tournaments every year. I have another bad idea-let's have them skate 3 on 3 behind a building-and have it be street style-with rappers doin there thing. How about a beach hockey tourney-teams are divided by Continent and there is a bulls eye in the goal-if someone hits it one player from the other team gets dropped into water! Seriously not a good idea.
2007-03-02 00:40:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
except you've press credentials, are immediately affiliated with the crew or are warm like Tia Carrere, probabilities of having contained in the locker room are about a similar because the seventy 4-75 Caps had at prevailing the Stanley Cup.
2016-11-26 23:59:00 · answer #7 · answered by nadem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not!The NHL has changed it enough for now any changes in the light you asked would totally ruin the tradition that made the Stanley Cup the hardest trophy to win.Shortening the base ball season by a few hundred games would that make sense to you?
2007-03-02 02:14:45 · answer #8 · answered by redwingnut16 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way! Too confusing; too involved. These guys are professionals, and go where the money is best for them. It is no different than any of us being told that we could only work at one place without hope of advancement.
2007-03-02 00:32:49 · answer #9 · answered by maddojo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What the heck are you talking about....??? Hockey is hockey and no one can change it!
2007-03-03 01:56:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋