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NHL should put Red Wings in East, and expand

By Kevin Paul Dupont

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 13, 2011

The NHL’s Board of Governors will meet early next month and kick around the “realignment’’ can one more time. With 30 teams doing business between Sunrise, Fla., and Vancouver, British Columbia (3,458 miles, if you stick to the main roads), there are many ways for the Lords of the Boards to divvy up the conferences, divisions, and love-hate rivalries that keep us coming back for more, even if not that many actually keep coming back in Phoenix, Sunrise, Columbus, or even Raleigh.

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