NHL Approves Realignment Plan Adding Wild Card to Playoffs
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The National Hockey League’s Board of Governors approved a realignment plan that will add a team to the Eastern Conference and change the names of the four divisions that make up the sport’s top circuit.
The plan creates two eight-team divisions in the East and two seven-team divisions in the West by switching the Winnipeg Jets to the West and the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets to the East. The four new divisions have yet to be named.