SHL Divisions Proposal

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SHL Divisions Proposal

ValorX77
IIHF Federation Head
IIHF GM

05-03-2021, 05:10 PM

I just came up with these for fun.

Atlantic:
Inferno

Philadelphia
Barracuda

Great Lakes:
Stampede

Montreal

Pacific:

Central:

Thoughts?

luke
SHL GM
Admiral of the Data Seas

05-03-2021, 05:12 PM

It is something that HO has been thinking about, we talked about it on the expansion reveal livestream on youtube if you wanted to hear a bit more of our thoughts about it

bbjygm
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Yogurt Lord

05-03-2021, 05:24 PM

I support TBB being the only team in the Philadelphia division

Lime
Donators
ahoy ladies

05-03-2021, 05:46 PM

proposal:

North Division
Blizzard

Fuck Jeff Division
syndicate

East Division
Rage

South Division
Specters

ACapitalChicago
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:boblincoolright:

05-03-2021, 06:02 PM

05-03-2021, 05:46 PMLime Wrote:
proposal:

North Division

Fuck Jeff Division

East Division

South Division

Thought process went "Wait why would Seattle go ther-ooooooh I see now"

S66 Damian Littleton

CptSquall
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Physt to Phace

05-03-2021, 06:32 PM

05-03-2021, 05:12 PMluketd Wrote:

It is something that HO has been thinking about, we talked about it on the expansion reveal livestream on youtube if you wanted to hear a bit more of our thoughts about it

I think it is perfect. This visually is what i hoped.

yosh
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while I may appear to be a foolish fool in a foolish Yoshi digital avatar profile, I still do possess a brilliant mind

05-03-2021, 07:25 PM

05-03-2021, 05:46 PMLime Wrote:
proposal:

North Division

Fuck Jeff Division

East Division

South Division

N O .

SlashACM
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Certified Swiss Cheese

05-03-2021, 08:27 PM

ABC Division-
Atlanta
Baltimore
Buffalo
Calgary
Chicago

EHLM Division-
Edmonton
Hamilton
Los Angeles
Manhattan
Minnesota

MNPS Division-
Montreal
New England
New Orleans
Philadelphia
San Francisco

STW Division-
Seattle
Tampa Bay
Texas
Toronto
Winnipeg

dankoa
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S36 Challenge Cup Champion

05-04-2021, 04:46 AM

i vote no to putting an expansion team in a division with buffalo, ham and toronto

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ACapitalChicago
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#10

05-04-2021, 07:16 AM

05-04-2021, 04:46 AMdankoa Wrote: i vote no to putting an expansion team in a division with buffalo, ham and toronto

It's some real monkey paw stuff.

"I wish for an expansion team"

"Done, you're in the Great Lakes Division"

S66 Damian Littleton

RomanesEuntDomus
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S10 Challenge Cup Champion

#11

05-04-2021, 08:55 AM (This post was last modified: 05-04-2021, 08:59 AM by RomanesEuntDomus.)

Wild thought: Why do we even need Divisions in the first place, what benefit does it have in a virtual league where travel isn't a factor? Why not go straight by Conference or just have Divisions on paper but don't use them for playoff seeding, like the NHL did until a few years ago? We had purely Conference-based playoff-seeding in the SHL as well not too long ago, and I don't see how switching away from it has improved anything, if anything it has made the playoff races a lot less exciting while also making things more uneven and arbitrary between Divisions.

fishy
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Posting Freak

#12

05-04-2021, 09:54 AM

05-04-2021, 08:55 AMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: Wild thought: Why do we even need Divisions in the first place, what benefit does it have in a virtual league where travel isn't a factor? Why not go straight by Conference or just have Divisions on paper but don't use them for playoff seeding, like the NHL did until a few years ago? We had purely Conference-based playoff-seeding in the SHL as well not too long ago, and I don't see how switching away from it has improved anything, if anything it has made the playoff races a lot less exciting while also making things more uneven and arbitrary between Divisions.

Head Office likes divisions is the real answer, it’s why the new playoff format is likely going to be similar to the NHLs aka like this;

Great Lakes (GL) #1 vs Wild-Card (WC) #2
GL #2 vs GL#3

Atlantic (ATL) #1 vs WC#1
ATL #2 vs ATL #3

Idk why HO won’t just make it so that division winners get the top two seeds in each conference, and then go 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5, but I guess they even like copying the shitty aspects of the nhl

PremierBromanov
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Cool guy

#13

05-04-2021, 09:55 AM

what if we had no divisions

JKortesi81
SHL GM
S32, S40, S42, S45 Challenge Cup Champion

#14

05-04-2021, 10:19 AM

05-04-2021, 09:54 AMfishy Wrote: Idk why HO won’t just make it so that division winners get the top two seeds in each conference, and then go 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5, but I guess they even like copying the shitty aspects of the nhl

This, mostly.

I think it'll be way more fun to have the 1-8, 2-7, etc.

Doing it with just divisions leads to repetitive series and after a few seasons of the same 2v3 divisional first round matchups, it'll get boring and stale. You don't have to do it this way to create rivalries, they do that just from playing teams in their own division more. I've found playing different teams in the playoffs every season (Yes children, NOLA used to actually make the playoffs a whole bunch, I swear) much more fun. And rivalries got built regardless from the playoffs. I mean hell, New Orleans' biggest rival that's come from the playoffs is Buffalo, and we've only played twice haha.

I do believe Head Office should forego the "divisional round", and just have The division winners 1 and 2, and then 3-8 can be conference points based. This means the idea they had with the wildcards still work, as we could just as easily have 5 from one division and 3 from the other as much as we'd get a 4-4 split.

SlashACM
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Certified Swiss Cheese

#15

05-04-2021, 01:01 PM

Can you do FHM without divisions?

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