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Originally Posted by suburbanite
Moving the Coyotes is the only one that makes sense really. You cant break up the Alberta teams or a new potential Vancouver-Seattle Rivalry. Splitting off any of the California team ruins the battle of California. The league also won't geographically isolate their new pet project in Vegas. I think they hope that Vegas and LA build a rivalry in the coming years.
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Another possibility would be moving Colorado to the Pacific and putting both Alberta teams in the Central. It would make some sense to have the Avs in the same division as Vegas, Arizona and the west coast teams, and Winnipeg would probably have a rivalry with Edmonton and Calgary pretty quickly. The downside is that the Canucks would lose their Canadian rivals and travel would become hell for Dallas and Nashville. Also Arizona is almost certainly going to move eventually. Arizona to the Central probably makes a little more sense.
Personally I would like to see the Coyotes move to Milwaukee. Wisconsin should have an NHL team, it is already part of hockey's natural base in the US. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to enter into Bettman's calculations.