I am on the record as saying the Canadian NHL teams should split off from the NHL, take the Stanley Cup with them, and be joined by another 6-10 Canadian teams to form an all-Canadian CNHL.
But that will probably never happen and neither will this all-Canadian conference thing for a number of things.
For starters, many Canadian teams have rivalries with U.S. clubs that are bigger than with certain Canadian clubs. One can think of Montreal-Boston which is hockey's rivalry of rivalries IMO, and more generally both Toronto and Montreal have good cross-border rivalries dating back to the old Original Six and other more recent Canadian clubs also have cross-border rivalries.
There is also the question of travel budgets which would be much higher if Canadian teams mostly played against each other instead of U.S. clubs often not too far across the border.
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