peter sullivan
Winnipeg
- Apr 9, 2010
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The Thrashers, currently, have no such "renegade" trying to purchase them and therefore the NHL is allowing the franchise to crumble to pieces with the eventual intent of selling it to an owner and moving it on their terms, per the league constitution.?
it seems to me that the NHL had one of the richest men on earth approach them to become part of their club and they looked around to see where they could fit him in....phoenix was available but had a determined civic government willing to prop the team up for the next 23 years....the next best option is a team with a fractured ownership group that isnt all that influential wanting out of the game.
someone has to lose...either the NHL tells thomson he is not welcome or they find a team for him....atlanta might be that low hanging fruit that they can pick off without much backlash.