NHL Sub and/or Delegation Leagues?

[Orioles1966]

I never really understood the reason behind sub-leagues in OOTP. Now it looks like there will be the possiblity of delegation leagues in the NHL. Will both be options?

Will delagation teams be able too farm out players to AHL/ECHL?

[phantompenguin]

Sub-leagues are essentially conferences in baseball. Technically the NL and AL are separate (different rule books, they used to have different umps, etc.) and have very different histories, but they play together under the branch of Major League Baseball, so they're essentially leagues within a league (hence names like National League instead of National Conference).

I'm wondering the same issues with minor leagues. I don't want to use the AHL as a promotion/relegation league since it would be a nightmare (6,000 seat arenas and half of the teams are owned by their NHL partners anyway), but I am wondering how a NHL/KHL relegation system would work with the minors, since both leagues already have active minor league systems.

[Orioles1966]

Originally Posted by phantompenguin

Sub-leagues are essentially conferences in baseball. Technically the NL and AL are separate (different rule books, they used to have different umps, etc.) and have very different histories, but they play together under the branch of Major League Baseball, so they're essentially leagues within a league (hence names like National League instead of National Conference).

I'm wondering the same issues with minor leagues. I don't want to use the AHL as a promotion/relegation league since it would be a nightmare (6,000 seat arenas and half of the teams are owned by their NHL partners anyway), but I am wondering how a NHL/KHL relegation system would work with the minors, since both leagues already have active minor league systems.

I would think the relegation league would be something like the WHA. Not good enough too be the in NHL(however with some clubs that might have been questionable) but better than the AHL.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Orioles1966

I never really understood the reason behind sub-leagues in OOTP.

The reason is that's the way Markus initially chose to recreate the AL/NL/MLB relationship. Now that associations are in OOTP, eventually subleagues will be probably be renamed conferences, which is closer to what they really are.

[Jonesey]

If possible I'll be setting up a 20 team NHL with a 10 team NHL Division 2 which 1 or 2 teams would relegate/promote each season. It would preserve the AHL teams as minor league teams and still have the relegation aspect.

[geckon]

Originally Posted by Jonesey

If possible I'll be setting up a 20 team NHL with a 10 team NHL Division 2 which 1 or 2 teams would relegate/promote each season. It would preserve the AHL teams as minor league teams and still have the relegation aspect.

As far as I understand the situation it should be possible to do that.

[royalblue]

Originally Posted by Jonesey

If possible I'll be setting up a 20 team NHL with a 10 team NHL Division 2 which 1 or 2 teams would relegate/promote each season. It would preserve the AHL teams as minor league teams and still have the relegation aspect.

I like that idea. I am slowly starting on a fictional league for ootp baseball that will have pro/reg in the US.

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