man watched the whole 47 minutes thing on CBC. CHILLS THEY MULTIPLYING. WITHOUT A DOUBT Peg Sheety gonna get it done.
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/stanleycup/story/2011/05/31/sp-nhl-returns-winnipeg.htmlAnd Scott Taylor, always see him on the TV and radio, great article:
The NHL Returns to Winnipeg.
Posted on May 31, 2011 by Scott Taylor
I spent lunch hour at the Forks yesterday and it was invigorating. Hundreds of people converged on Winnipeg’s meeting place to celebrate the return of the NHL to Winnipeg.
Perhaps I should make that a little clearer: “Return of the Jets.” Some kids who were barely out of diapers when the Jets played their last game in 1996 were sporting Jets jerseys at the Forks yesterday. Although it’s likely this team will not be the Jets — we’ve heard Manitoba Somethings, maybe Falcons or Polar Bears –it’s pretty definite now that 75-80 per cent of Winnipeg hockey fans WANT the team be the Winnipeg Jets.
But yesterday, the name argument took a back seat to the simple realization that the National Hockey League would once again have Winnipeg as a member.
Mark Chipman, David Thomson, Jim Ludlow and, yes, Gary Bettman (looking like a guy who just got punched him the stomach) made it official. The National Hockey League has indeed, returned to Winnipeg.
At a news conference yesterday at the MTS Centre, True North Sports and Entertainment announced that it had completed a deal to purchase the Atlanta Thrashers and the team would begin play this fall at Winnipeg’s downtown arena. Through it all you got the feeling Bettman did NOT want this to happen. His Southern U.S. experiment has started to crumble and his body language suggested he was pained by the fact he had to move a team out of the seventh-largest TV market in the United States and into a city of 700,000 on the Canadian prairie.
There was some talk that if Winnipeg’s owners didn’t sell 13,000 season tickets by June 21, there was a chance the NHL’s board of governors would not allow the team to move to Winnipeg, but that just seemed outrageous. Yesterday, Chipman said that True North had signed off on a deal to purchase the team from the Atlanta Spirit Group and while Winnipeggers were partying at the Forks, the rich guys who own ASG were doing cartwheels in their executive offices, having dumped the Thrashers, a team that has allegedly lost $130 million in five years. One suspects those guys aren’t about to take the team back so if True North doesn’t sell 13,000 season tickets, what’s the NHL going to do? Move the team to Portage? Winnipeg is the ONLY alternative to Atlanta and I’m sure that with the use of some brilliant legal term there was a “no give-backsies clause” in the final sales contract.
Meanwhile, it appears Moose GM Craig Heisinger will play an important role with Winnipeg’s new franchise and last night Atlanta’s president Don Waddell said he would not accompany the team to Winnipeg. Head coach Craig Ramsey was in Winnipeg yesterday and will likely keep his job.
And just to make everyone happy, Bettman said yesterday, if the new owners decide they want to use the Jets name, the NHL will give it to them.
The NHL is coming back to the ‘Peg. Just as we wrote last year, it was the Atlanta Thrashers, not the Phoenix Coyotes who wound up moving to River City.
It made for a very nice day. Of course, so did getting my picture taken with Ab McDonald, Bill Lesuk and Thomas Steen.
link:
http://www.rivercitysportsblog.com/the-nhl-returns-to-winnipeg/haha GJ!!
even John Cena got in on it!
It's all about $$$$$ and fucking Bettman got it. Bravo to Tru North for GETTING DA PLAN, NEVER GIVING UP. Just laying out the ticket packages, wow. Oilers is still the cheapest!
lol fuck, man, come to think this is like the 2nd time a franchise left Atlanta lol. Throw the Preds outta the West, fucking Cheechoo and Rinne always have da Oilers number lol
We gotta do a roadie like Toronto, Ottawa HiPstaz -> Winnipeg -> Edmonton -> Calgary -> Vancouver
or vice versa
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