As a cantankerous history teacher, I’m completely tired of people trying to take the important past, wadding it up, and tossing it in the garbage can. People have the attention span of gnats anyway (I had soooo many blank stares this period when I mentioned it was Pearl Harbor Day), so we need to do everything we can to keep the accomplishments of the old founders of hockey alive.

I’d love it if we went back to the old conference names at the very least.

I do like the idea of renaming the conferences and divisions though. It gives the league a lot more character.

if they do it, they just need to do it again, they taking peeps that were foundational 50-100 years ago, and replacing them with peeps foundational to hockey 20-40 years ago. becomes a cycle once they pull that crap.

they have plenty of nameless awards they can stick a name to (the plus/minus leader for one). nhlpa awards, media awards, individual team awards (look ino the 10 yearly awards the flyers give themselves).

the want the kiddies to remember orr and gretzky and howe, then man hockey assessable and front the new accessability with howe and orr and gretzky. dued they all still alive,a nd wqayno is no longer solided by being a sucky coach!

hands up bob plager lovers?

ok how many with your hands up love him cos of his post hockey days. how many didnt even see him play in the note, or were fans of a non blues team back then?

pah.

It’s just some talking head floating the idea, I don’t think they’ll actually do it. And I agree, keep the names, I don’t know why hockey has to throw everything out the window every few years. It’s hard enough keeping up with the rule changes, let’s keep a sense of history.

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