Any fellow Thrashers fans?

[7even]

How many times does a city have to lose it's franchise before people finally admit that maybe it's just not the right market?

Third time's a charm?

The Thrashers were a joke franchise managed by a group who spent most of their time chewing on crayons. Seriously, the franchise was a comedy of errors season in and season out. Hard to assess the viability of the market in that situation. How would they have turned out if they were provided the same advantages as Vegas? Hard to say.

 

[rent free]

So, the Lightning played in a baseball stadium for a few years. Are you saying it couldnt be done?

yah i wonder why they aren't doing it now...

 

[CupsOverCash]

yah i wonder why they aren't doing it now...

Well my point in that comment was that at least they had a place to play if the NHL really wanted to go back there. Looking back, I see why they wouldnt but still its not that crazy of an idea.

 

[Sensfan5]

Well my point in that comment was that at least they had a place to play if the NHL really wanted to go back there. Looking back, I see why they wouldnt but still its not that crazy of an idea.

Uh. Ya. It is.

 

[Viqsi]

Will be rooting for the Preds in that matchup, presuming it happens, as they've always been my #2 team.

And ASG can still go **** themselves. Never was a Thrashers fan and have never been to Atlanta (unless you count driving through on the way to and from Florida), but nobody deserves that crap.

 

[Tryblot]

Well my point in that comment was that at least they had a place to play if the NHL really wanted to go back there. Looking back, I see why they wouldnt but still its not that crazy of an idea.

For one thing football and hockey are played at the same time. It's a lot easier in a baseball stadium when you don't have to completely take away the boards and everything that makes it a hockey arena once a week. It could be done in a baseball stadium in a desperate time but I don't see how it could ever work in a football stadium.

 

[CupsOverCash]

For one thing football and hockey are played at the same time. It's a lot easier in a baseball stadium when you don't have to completely take away the boards and everything that makes it a hockey arena once a week. It could be done in a baseball stadium in a desperate time but I don't see how it could ever work in a football stadium.

That’s true I didn’t think about that.

 

[Duke749]

Hi

 

[Oilers Propagandist]

Why?

 

[tarheelhockey]

How many times does a city have to lose it's franchise before people finally admit that maybe it's just not the right market?

Actually I'd say it's less a matter of the NHL deciding that the market has failed, and more a matter of the market deciding that the NHL has failed.

If I'm someone who grew up in the 1970s and had my heart broken by the Flames as a child, then grew up and had my heart broken as an adult by the Thrashers, there would be literally nothing on earth the NHL could do to get me to invest my emotions and finances in a 3rd team.

 

[Oilers Propagandist]

How many times does a city have to lose it's franchise before people finally admit that maybe it's just not the right market?

Third time's a charm?

How could you or anyone judge a market where the fans were treated with the utmost disrespect while getting crapped on at the same time with the extremely quick sale and forced relocation because the same owners who owned the thrashers, owned the hawks and didn't want the Thrashers to play in their arena? The thrashers never had a chance with the people who owned them. Right ownership for any team will make them successful, and imo without a doubt if they get a committed ownership group and new arena they will be very well off. Plus it would be another reason to go back to Atlanta... mmmm.... Atlantaaaa.

 

[Mayor Bee]

Atlanta was my second team before the move.

I will refrain from commenting on what I think of the idea of rooting for the Jets

 

[Tikhonov]

I miss prime kovy in ATL also Heatley