Right, and I see the point of doing it this way, too.
I just think that people sell short how sometimes rivalries will just create themselves where you least expect them to. Remember post-lockout when teams played eight games within their division to "create rivalries" and how much that sucked? And yet, Caps/Pens became a great rivalry despite not being in division. Same thing with Canucks/Blackhawks. Even Red Wings/Penguins was pretty good for awhile there and they were in different conferences.
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