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The National Hockey League's Metropolitan Division (often referred to simply as the "Metro Division") was formed in 2013 as one of the two divisions in the Eastern Conference as part of a league realignment. [1] It is also a successor of the original Atlantic Division and one of the two successors to the Southeast Division.
However, disagreement between the NHL Board of Governors and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) caused it to be pushed to 2013. On December 5, 2011, the NHL Board of Governors originally approved a conference realignment plan to move from a six-division setup to a four-conference structure. [5]
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) is a college athletic conference in the Midwestern United States that participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. The current CCHA began play in the 2021–22 season; a previous incarnation, which the current CCHA recognizes as part of its history, existed from 1971 to 2013.
The NHL is gearing up for a Jan. 13 start to a 56-game season and will have a new, temporary look with altered divisions.
Locations of National Hockey League (NHL) teams, marked by conference, of the proposed 2013–2014 realignment. US states/Canadian provinces with teams marked. (New York State has teams in two different divisions, so it has been marked with stripes) Date: 26 February 2013, 18:40 (UTC) Source: Map_of_USA_and_Canada,_NHL,zoom.svg; Map_of_USA_and ...
The Atlantic Division is a name used by the National Hockey League to describe a division of teams in the Eastern Conference.. The original Atlantic Division, the predecessor of which was the Patrick Division, was formed in 1993 as part of the Eastern Conference in a league realignment.
The National Hockey League's Pacific Division was formed in 1993 as part of the Western Conference in a league realignment. It is also one of the two successors of the Smythe Division (the other one was the Northwest Division), though of the current teams, only the Anaheim Ducks, Seattle Kraken and Vegas Golden Knights did not play in the Smythe Division.
The March 2011 announcement that the Big Ten Conference would start sponsoring men's ice hockey in the 2013–14 season, which came shortly after Penn State had announced that it would upgrade its team from club to full varsity status effective in 2012–13, led to a major wave of conference realignment in that sport.