Hockey 2010-2011

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Originally Posted by Captn Sacto

Is there still hockey going on? I just spent the last week in Oklahoma City for work. As far as your thread about which cities don't deserve hockey. This place should be the top of the list. Lots of hotels don't have Versus, but you couldn't even get it in the bars. All televisions were set to watch the OK City Thunder vs Dallas Mavericks. As far as US cities where they should add a team, how about Seattle? If would be a natural rival for Vancouver, and Seattle is home to the first US team to win the Stanley Cup. The Seattle Metropolitans won the cup in 1917 and were in the finals two other years.

To accept Seattle would subvert my basic criterion, which is that there must be a place for kids to play pond hockey (outside, obviously) when they're growing up. That is the basis for the hockey culture that exists in the deserving cities. That being said, I could be persuaded to accept Seattle because of its longitude, for a price.

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I just had to share this picture of Zdeno Chara (6'9") and Martin St. Louis (5'8").

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Winnipeg has an NHL team again. The Thrashers have been sold and are moving to a city that deserves an NHL team. Apparently the new name is still unknown, but I hope that the owners keep the Jets name. It may not be original, but it is well known.

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Originally Posted by ila

Winnipeg has an NHL team again. The Thrashers have been sold and are moving to a city that deserves an NHL team. Apparently the new name is still unknown, but I hope that the owners keep the Jets name. It may not be original, but it is well known.

Happy dance as another southern hockey teams folds and moves north where they should have been to start with

Anywho ILA i dout Jets will be in the running mainly due to the Coyts still own that name and still have the Jets records and states as part of there teams history so the Jets are a piece of hockey history and will not return to Winnipeg
Penguinsfan Jen

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Originally Posted by transjen

Happy dance as another southern hockey teams folds and moves north where they should have been to start with

Anywho ILA i dout Jets will be in the running mainly due to the Coyts still own that name and still have the Jets records and states as part of there teams history so the Jets are a piece of hockey history and will not return to Winnipeg
Penguinsfan Jen

Definitely a happy dance, Jen, and for the reason that you mentioned.

From what I've been able to find out, the NHL owns the Jets name and logo and not Phoenix.

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Originally Posted by ila

Definitely a happy dance, Jen, and for the reason that you mentioned.

From what I've been able to find out, the NHL owns the Jets name and logo and not Phoenix.

I didn't know that, i just assumed that Phoenix retained the the rights to the Jets name and logo

Ithink Jets would be most peoples choice but Phoenix may raise a fuss about them naming them the Jets
Penguinsfan Jen

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How's this for fast? On the "Winnipeg" page on Wikipedia:

"On May 31, 2011, Mark Chipman of True North Sports & Entertainment announced the NHL's return to Winnipeg with the purchase of the Atlanta Thrashers from Atlanta Spirit, LLC, May 2011."