If they really want to rejig conferences to cut down on travel and overnight expenses---then how about a new OQFC.
Ottawa -St. Lawrence Division
Ottawa
Carleton
Queen's
Sherbrooke
Quebec Division
Laval
Montreal
Concordia
McGill
Each division plays six games--home and away. Then they cross over for a quarter final,semi final and final game. Maybe even the losers of the quarters play a consolation round to decide 5 to 8. Thus each team gets at least 8 games , and some nine, with very little travel.
Edit--Maybe we even get two Panda Games out of it. The winner of each of the two Ottawa-Carleton games get two points in the standings. The Panda goes to the team that wins on the combined score of the two games.![]()