Atlanta to Winnipeg is done.

[Ravin]

So TSN has explained that if Winnipeg becomes for real, that they WILL play in the Southeast division for the upcoming season. It's too late in the scheduling process to make any change.

The following year is when things will be moved around. TSN predicts Winnipeg moves to the Northeast with Colorado moving to the Pacific, Dallas moving to the Central.....

If that's the case there could be any number of changes to divisions.

Also, Manitoba Moose AHL team is moving to St. John's NFLD.

I still think that is completely fucked. Dallas - Columbus - Detroit - Nashville - Chicago - St. Louis, with most likely Nashville moving over to the East. You got three teams grouped together, and then Dallas and St. Louis. I guess with Winny being close to Minny it works, but I don't want a Canada division.

 

[killgod]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=563437&navid=mod-rr-headlines

A few hundred people in Atlanta want the NHL to know they care.

Don't tell them nobody else does. :shifty:

 

[Ravin]

I always say when fans hold these little get togethers, "maybe if you showed up more during the season, you wouldn't have this issue now."

 

[killgod]

I always say when fans hold these little get togethers, "maybe if you showed up more during the season, you wouldn't have this issue now."

Apparently these are the fans that did show up to games, road games too.

This just needs to be over with ASAP, I'm tired of hearing what could or could not happen. Mostly I just want to know what this team in Winnipeg is going to be called and what they'll look like.

 

[wr50l]

It hardly helped the mood that Harry the Hawk, the mascot of Atlanta's NBA club that is also owned by the Atlanta Spirit, rode up on a scooter, hopped off and handed out some high-fives before stopping to put his mouth over the head of Zanna Huff, a bystander wearing a Thrashers jersey.

"Now he's trying to eat my girlfriend's head, which is disgusting," said Bryce McNeil, a 33-year-old professor at Georgia State. "Having Harry the Hawk here -- it's not that I have anything against the Hawks, but it's the Atlanta Spirit shoving their other asset in our face, which is just deplorable."

:homieslol:

 

[leaffan]

That same article those people brought up a good point.

They said "if we are unhappy with the team then the idea to show the owners you want change and don't show up to the game doesn't work because if fans don't show up to the game this is what happends".

That event was for the season ticket sales i think lol.

 

[Ravin]

That same article those people brought up a good point.

They said "if we are unhappy with the team then the idea to show the owners you want change and don't show up to the game doesn't work because if fans don't show up to the game this is what happends".

That event was for the season ticket sales i think lol.

Which is funny because even our Sarnia Sting work on that. Team has won 3 playoff series in 17 years, has never made it passed the 2nd round, fans stopped showing up, owners tell fans to get their butts in the seats.

 

[theMINI]

Next up....... Quebec City !

 

[EmpireWF]

SWEET! Well I would hope they're re-named the Jets, bring back the old jerseys!

I vividly remember the cool Winnipeg Jets logo from the NHL games on Genesis.

good times.

 

[Ravin]

Can't help but smile at this logo. Though I believe they will go more a "Manitoba ????" team, not Winnipeg.

 

[Ravin]

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=367433

News conference today at noon est. Deal is basically done. Atlanta group gave someone a chance for a week to make an offer to keep the team in Atlanta, but no one stepped up, so basically the board has to vote yes and away we go with the team back to Winnipeg. They will play out of the Southeast division next season and then league will be changed.

 

[Ravin]

Alright, hold the phone here. What the fuck Gary.
Source: http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=367433

"Hockey in Canada has never been stronger," said Bettman. "We get to be back in a place we wish had not left in 1996."

Then why all the fuse about people wanting to move teams to Canada you tart?

"The most important thing for any franchise is ownership, and having Mark Chipman and David Thomson is at the top of the list," explained Bettman. But if you think back to 1996, (the MTS Centre) didn't exist, we didn't have the same collective bargaining agreement that we have now, and I believe the market from an economic standpoint for Winnipeg and Manitoba is stronger than it was."

Ok, so what about Ontario which is easily 10 times bigger then Winnipeg?

 

[theMINI]

Looks like Winnipeg is finally getting a hockey team! Great.... Now Toronto's going to want one... :facepalm:

 

[PEYMAN18]

Toronto. Hamilton. Quebec City.

Lets getter done.

 

[theMINI]

Toronto. Hamilton. Quebec City.

Lets getter done.

You do realize I was joking, right? I was making reference to their shitty ass "team" that they have.

 

[Ravin]

You do realize I was joking, right? I was making reference to their shitty ass "team" that they have.

:facepalm:

 

[theMINI]

:facepalm:

:facepalm:

 

[wingsfan77]

How the Atlanta players probably feel:

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