The International Hockey League has aligned itself into two conferences and four divisions, placing teams in similar geographic areas in the same division.

The league announced that Salt Lake, San Diego and Phoenix will be in the Pacific Division, while Kansas City, Milwaukee and Peoria will comprise the Midwest Division of the Western Conference.Atlanta, Cincinnati and Cleveland (Atlantic) and Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Kalamazoo (Central) make up the Eastern Conference.

The four-division, two-conference alignment was approved at IHL meetings being held this week in Montreal.

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Division champions will be seeded Nos. 1 and 2, based on points, for the playoffs.

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