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>TORONTO (AP) -The NHL will stay with an 82-game schedule for the 2008-09 season, rejecting a plan to add two games.

>The league's board of governors dismissed the idea of expanding the season by two games because of complications and timing, according to NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly.

>"It's accurate that we are no longer considering an 84-game schedule for the 2008-09 season, but that it remains a possibility for the 2009-10 season," Daly said in an e-mail to The Canadian Press on Wednesday.

>"I think it was a combination of it becoming too late in the scheduling process for next season to effectuate a change, as well as the fact that we weren't agreeable with the union's condition that it be changed on a one-year, trial basis only."

>The NHL players union is not willing to commit to an 84-game season on a permanent basis unless teams are guaranteed home-and-home games with every team in the league. The NHL has yet to agree to that.

Delicious conference segregation continues, at least for now.
>> Anonymous
yay, more delicious idiocy from the NHL and it's rulers.
>> Anonymous
You have to keep conferences. But they need to make it so that you're seeded appropriately. Like if you win your division, you still get seeded based on your points. An example would be Washington this year. Yes they should be in because they won their conference, but they should have had the 8th place seed, not 3rd.
>> Anonymous
>>65413

They added too many god damn teams, but I wish it would go back to the old divisional playoff format, that way , no more Welfare playoff teams.
>> Anonymous
>>65413
Having a single home-and-home series against teams in the opposing conference is hardly blowing the formation of conferences wide open, though.