Nhl Western Conference Quarterfinals

Eight best teams from the Western Conference are about to square-off in a bid to qualify for the semifinals. The NHL western conference quarterfinals are among the most watched stages of the entire season. This is where business really starts to pick up and the fans as well as their teams enter the home stretch. If your team has gone all the way to last eight then don’t miss out on NHL Western Conference quarterfinals tickets and catch the excitement live.

The NHL Western Conference quarterfinals will see the best sides in the conference go head to head to take another step towards glory. The entire NHL structure is divided into two conferences Eastern and Western but it wasn’t always along these lines. It was called the “Clarence Campbell Conference” or simply the “Campbell Conference” during its early days.

That however changed in the year 1974 when the management of the NHL decided to re-structure the entire league.  As part of the new format the entire league was segregated into two conferences. Every conference had four divisions under it. The teams in the conferences weren’t divided according to their geographical locations.

That main idea behind the change in the structure was to take the game to a much wider fan base and make it more interesting. The move paid off and NHL started to attract people from all walks of life. To take it one step further another re-alignment took place in the year 1981. This time the purpose was to segregate teams as per their geographical locations. The old name Campbell Conference was not changed and it now consisted of teams from the west side of the country.

Gary Bettman, the NHL commissioner then came onto the scene in the early 1990’s. He wanted the conferences to have a name that depicted geographical location of the teams that played under them. So to make it simpler for the layman to understand he changed the names of both conferences accordingly. The Campbell Conference was re-named the Western Conference and it had three divisions central, northwest and pacific under it. Each division had a total of five teams under it. Starting 2013-2014 campaign both conferences will once have four divisions under its wings.

Under the current format the three division champions automatically make their way to the post season also known as the playoffs. Another team with the best record besides the three division champions also makes its way to the next stage. A group of four other sides that have the best record in regular season completes the line-up of the NHL Western Conference quarterfinals.

The eight sides then square off in a best of seven series games to make it to the semifinal stage. Since this is when the post season starts in earnest, the pressure on everyone associated with the teams is enormous. The backing of the fans matters a lot at this stage so book your NHL Western Conference quarterfinals tickets and root for your favorite team live.