Very similar to how I felt in 1996. I didn't watch a complete NHL game for at least a decade. I just soured on how Hockey had become too corporate and left the average fan and passionate fan bases behind. things haven't really changed.
Brunt: Atlanta Thrashers moving to Winnipeg; stands by story, conflicting reports
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leave at once!
DisplacedIslander
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I remember seeing that, but that one wasn't worded as such as this was. Bill Patrick pretty much said what was in the TG&M article, but even after saying Bettman will confirm on Tuesday, he also said TNSE has not confirmed a sale yet either.
Drumming up the press I would think.
Ondrej The Giant
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Call me a skeptic as a Winnipeg fan, but we have been jerked around time and time again with this relocation talk so i'll remain cautiously optimistic. (for a maximum time of 2 weeks 
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C77
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So how is Winnipeg going to respond to Bettman?
It's unbelievable how badly Atlanta fans got screwed....never a chance to say goodbye to the team at a game....unknowing until the very end.
Anyways...it's a bit like Quebec's move to Colorado...not that I expect Atlanta/Winnipeg to win the Cup next year but they're going to be competitive even in the West.
Well I guess the value of those old Kovalchuk Thrashers jerseys are going to go up...
It's unbelievable how badly Atlanta fans got screwed....never a chance to say goodbye to the team at a game....unknowing until the very end.
Anyways...it's a bit like Quebec's move to Colorado...not that I expect Atlanta/Winnipeg to win the Cup next year but they're going to be competitive even in the West.
Well I guess the value of those old Kovalchuk Thrashers jerseys are going to go up...
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Kitsune
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Well... tomorrow would be too soon if the deal was just completed today, and this weekend is the May long weekend, which means an annoucement would come the earliest on Tuesday...
atl thrasher344
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Bill Patrick said that because this article was his source. It even said so on the bottom of the screen.
I'll celebrate with season tickets, I see Burmistrov being the Shane Doan of this club, both played 74 games in their rookie year and played one year before moving to a new team. Plus I see Burmi being the captain, him or Kane.
BUT **** YEAH WINNIPEG THRASHERS!!!
I want them as that cause I think Winnipeg should start fresh and I hope the team don't have the words "Manitoba and Moose" like When the North Stars moved Minnesota Moved on and when the other Atlanta team moved to Calgary
BUT **** YEAH WINNIPEG THRASHERS!!!
I want them as that cause I think Winnipeg should start fresh and I hope the team don't have the words "Manitoba and Moose" like When the North Stars moved Minnesota Moved on and when the other Atlanta team moved to Calgary
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I agree, and I cant imagine Brunt & the Globe would run the story without some serious verification. Im happy for Winnipeg, but boy, what a market to lose.
Agreed. The way they basically have reached out to everyone to deny it after the report was published tells me smoke and fire. It reminds me over the summer when the Devils original offer to Kovalchuk leaked that it was over 100 million for 17 years. After that we got a ton of denial reports from "sources" saying it was false and not the offer. Then they signed him and what do you know the reported numbers were accurate.
Cory Trevor
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Jeffrey Lebowski
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this is the free market in action. I applaud the NHL head office for not repeating the mistakes of Phoenix.
YogiCanucks
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Fugu why'd you lock the other threads? Are you just sick of all the banter?
it's not official yet... It's actually going the other way saying it hasn't even happened.
Dreger is pretty credible too.
It's a tough time of year for Foogs with the annual Phoenix stuff, Atlanta just puts it over the top.
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http://www.ajc.com/sports/bettman-no-deal-to-951877.htm
Never again will I trust the Canadian media when it comes to relocation. This feels like deja vu after Phoenix and Nashville. I know it looks like its closer than when the other two cases happened but the NHL has yet to mention the "R" word about Atlanta
Never again will I trust the Canadian media when it comes to relocation. This feels like deja vu after Phoenix and Nashville. I know it looks like its closer than when the other two cases happened but the NHL has yet to mention the "R" word about Atlanta
It's also not like him to whiff so miserably that the whole of the hockey media rebuffs him within an hour, so take that as you will.
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Now all these "its not done" sources make sense.....
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly is also not confirming the report, saying "as far as we know, there is nothing done."
"Certainly, the board has not approved anything," he said in an email to The Canadian Press.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/article/994369
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly is also not confirming the report, saying "as far as we know, there is nothing done."
"Certainly, the board has not approved anything," he said in an email to The Canadian Press.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/article/994369
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