Garber visited Chester, PA basically saying that they will get an upcoming expansion team. He mentioned a 15th team in "the West" which could be Seattle or StLouis, but there seems to be a strong sentiment that it might be both and we will see 17 teams by 2010 (StL and Philly need to build stadia).
Which depending on pacing and whatnot might mean that an 18th site is out there for a nice single table with 34 matches.
If they keep it at two conferences at 18 teams there isn't a great option really, as the opposite conference gets 18 games (2 each team) and then a max of 20 games against 8 opponents within conference.
I think it will go back to three conferences with 18 teams with only a single match outside of conference and four within for 32 games.
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