Mayor Bee
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- Dec 29, 2008
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I'll give you Minnesota, he came out and said it was righting a wrong. Columbus though may be in the north but is not a traditional hockey market. They never saw pro hockey before and the state had seen some minor pro in Cincinnati, Toledo and the NHL Barons in Cleveland but that's it. I'm guessing you've never been to the state, it has a bigger Midwest market vibe than a northern market feel.
Are you serious? Columbus has had high-level pro hockey going back into the 1960s, and in the 1990s had an ECHL team that set every attendance and sellout record that existed. The only, and I mean only, reason that it was considered for NHL expansion is because of what that team did.
For Balsillie, he wasn't actively making bids like he had in 2006-08, but he was still in the picture. True North got the Thrashers because Atlanta couldn't find new local ownership to stop the bleeding
No, it's because ASG sabotaged their own team in order to sell for the purpose of relocation. Those clowns had to admit in court that they started actively trying to sell the Thrashers for relocation two days after acquiring them. And as the operator of Philips Arena, they simply evicted the team as soon as they could.
They never tried to make it work. They can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned.