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I was on a nice vacation, spending some time out at the lake.  My sister and her boyfriend stayed over a few days and they had a song on their iPod called “Kaiowas” by Sepultura.  The version they had was from the “Under a Pale Grey Sky” album.  It’s a live cut, pretty badass.

It’s an instrumental song consisting of very prominent drums and acoustic guitars (obviously with pickups).

I found myself thinking, since this is mostly drums and strummed guitars, I betcha this would sound really sweet if a pipe and drum ensemble played this.  Lots of drums, and the bagpipes could take up background drones and then a few pipers could do the guitar piece.  Royal Scots Dragoon Guards could do it quite handsomely.

The Eastern Conference is in need of losing some dead weight… namely: Atlanta and Florida.  It’s a bit overweight too,  the NY Islanders, they gotta move .  The LA Kings have to go somewhere more deserving, besides it’s only a 30 mile drive to Anaheim…

Map of an envisioned reconfiguration of the NHL

Division renaming:

• Atlantic renamed Mid-Atlantic (go with the geographic area name anyway)
• Central renamed Mid-West
• Pacific renamed Southwest

For cities receiving a hockey club, I’m renaming it to use a major hockey club’s name that the city used to host perhaps in the early years, or in a different league that was able to compete for the Stanley Cup

Eastern Conference:

• Milwaukee Wanderers (formerly Atlanta Thrashers)
  Wanderers (Montréal, NHA 1909).  I considered Maulers…
• Winnipeg Jets (formerly Florida Panthers)
  Their old team until the got moved to Phoenix, gotta resurrect it.
• Buffalo moved from Northeast Division to Mid-Atlantic Division

Western Conference:

• Seattle Metropolitans (fomerly New York Islanders)
  I seriously considered using the Shamrocks (Toronto, NHA 1914; Montréal; and other cities)… nice ring, and Seattle is known as the Emerald City.  But the Mets won a Stanley Cup, so it took precedence.  Other names considered:  Scouts (Kansas City, NHL ‘67);  Snipes;  Sentinels;  Seadogs;  Seals (Oakland/California, NHL ‘67);  Corsairs… or keep Islanders…  suggestions?
• Portland Rosebuds (formerly Los Angeles Kings)
  The Rosebuds were the first U.S.-based team to make it into the Cup Finals, had to go with it.  Also considered Pirates and Cougars.
  LA’s management and owners would be left in LA… 40 years to make a team better, they just can’t do anything right.
• Detroit moves to Eastern Conference / Northeast Division
• Columbus moves to Eastern Conference / Southeast Division
• Nashville moves to Eastern Conference / Southeast Division… I decided to let them keep their team, sorry Hamilton (Ontario).
• Colorado moves to Southwest Division

Visio map I created:  here