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Snoring to the Southeast Setup

By pucksandbooks -  October 16, 2006

There was something significantly worse than Ilya Kovalchuk's game-ending wrist shot at Verizon Center Saturday night: the thousands upon thousands of empty seats. I know it's only October, and I know well the Caps' long-standing drawing woes in early autumn, but there's something undergirding this downtown arena emptiness that had no like precedent in Capital Centre, and it's seldom discussed: the spectacularly soporific Southeast Division.

Can you imagine the outcry if the Redskins were dislodged out of the NFC East with the Giants, Eagles and Cowboys and into some Sunbelt arrangement with say Jacksonville and Carolina? That's really what happened with the Caps when they lost their week-in, week-out showdowns with the Rangers, Flyers, Penguins, Islanders, and Devils and replaced them with Miami's Cats on ice, the Bolts from Tampa, the 'Canes from Carolina, and most recently Atlanta's Thrashers.


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Posted by Gustafsson, October 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Pucks and I were discussing this earlier today prompting his latest post.

Here's my ideal solution.


  1. Team Mullet moves across the border to Hamilton or Kitchner to become Team Crackberry.

  2. Team Crackberry moves to the Campbell/Western Conference taking Nashville's spot in the Central Division.

  3. Nashville moves to Wales/Eastern Conference and the Southeast Division.

  4. The Washington Capitals are now freed from their banishment and moves back into the Patrick (Atlantic) where they so rightly deserve to be, where short road/train trips to divisional rivals are once again possible.

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Posted by Caps Nut, October 18, 2006 4:19 PM

http://capsnut.blogspot.com/2006/10/realign-this.html

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