If you change alignment -- I'm talking total reworking here.
We've got East vs. West and that's crap. It's the NBA and the NHL is decidedly not the NBA. You do need two conferences but a set up more along the lines of MLB and the NFL (Conference A: East/central/west; conference B east/central/west) would be more ideal.
Of course, that's going to have the traditionalists up in arms because it'd have it's effects on rivalries (what if Toronto and Montreal end up in seperate conferences?!? Or the Rangers and Islanders or Bruins?!?! etc)
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