All Entries Tagged With: "Winnipeg Jets"
The Winnipeg Jets: A Successful Season?
The Winnipeg Jets: A Successful Season? The initial hype of getting their team back in Winnipeg has waned but the excitement of the start of the season is building. The coaching staff and team is slowly being assembled and the organization itself continues to tie up all the loose ends that comes with a [...]
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
OK, that’s not quite true. I never made it over to the Forum. But the Bell Centre was directly to my left when I looked out my hotel room window. If I haven’t completely given it away with that last sentence, I spent this past weekend in Montreal and got to enjoy a few days [...]
Having A Say, When You Don’t Get One
First things first, I have to confess. When I heard last week that Blue Oyster Cult was going to perform at the referendum rally at the Nassau Coliseum parking lot tomorrow, a few thoughts swirled in my head: Blue Oyster Cult? At the last (and only) rally for a referendum election I ever attended, a [...]
Just business: Winnipeg officially back in NHL, fans await team name
Yesterday, in a move that surprised few, the NHL Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale and relocation of the now-former Atlanta Thrashers franchise to Winnipeg and True North Sports and Entertainment, the ownership group that brought major professional hockey back to the Manitoba provincial capital. The sticker price for the Thrashers, who spent eleven seasons [...]
The Southeast Unleashed – June 2011 Edition
The NHL’s Southeast Division was formed in 1998 as a part of the Eastern Conference due to expansion. It has had two Stanley Cup winning teams, the 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning and the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes. Each month we will update you on the relevant news and notes of all five Southeast Division teams. Florida [...]
Odd link between the Pens and Atlanta Thrashers’ demise
Much ink has been used over the past week detailing the downfall of NHL hockey in Atlanta for another generation of Georgian fans and the related relocation of the city’s franchise, like the Flames in 1980, up north to Canada, this time to Winnipeg. Many factors force a team to move to a different place: fan apathy for [...]
Rangers Keep Getting Defensive
The clock was ticking for the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. If they couldn’t sign defenseman Tim Erixon, their 2009 first round draft pick (23rd overall), to a contract by 5PM, he would’ve become eligible to reenter this year’s draft and the Flames would’ve lost a top prospect with not much to show for it. Calgary’s [...]
Cup Finals, Strike 2 Atlanta and Remembering The Dark Days in Chicago
Interesting Stanley Cup Final as both head coaches, who are buddies, were in a similar situation to begin the season. Claude Julien and Alain Vigneault were expected to win this time around. Both are in the fourth season of a four year plan and this was supposed to be their time to win it all. [...]
Wheel of Relocation & the St. Louis Blues + Berglund Signs
The hockey world is filled with joy and despair today. True North announced that they have bought the Atlanta Thrashers and will bring “Canada’s Game” home to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fans in the frozen north are elated to have NHL hockey back after over a decade without. But Thrasher fans are losing their team. Inept ownership [...]
Impassioned Plea from a Thrashers Fan to Gary Bettman
The most passionate fans waited 10 long years for it. Luckily, I didn’t have to wait that long. But the echoes of that amazing night in April of 2007 still haunt my memory four years later. The memories from that day, that night, will forever be etched in my mind and cherished in my soul [...]
The Southeast Unleashed – May 2011 Inaugural Edition
The NHL’s Southeast Division was formed in 1998 as a part of the Eastern Conference due to expansion. It has had two Stanley Cup winning teams, the 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning and the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes. Each month we will link you to the relevant news and notes of all five Southeast Division teams. [...]
Mock Draft 1.0
Mock Draft 1.0 Here we go….1-10 Only…. 1. Edmonton Oilers – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins C Red Deer (WHL)– RNH is the best player in the draft, and with the number 1 pick, you use that on the best player. It just so happens that Edmonton is in need of a Number one Center and RNH is [...]
Rangers Answer The Bell, Now Wait (updated)
After spending my Friday night channel surfing between the Hurricanes-Thrashers and Flyers-Sabres games, I went to bed feeling somewhat unsettled. When the final horn sounded, Buffalo clinched a playoff spot as a result of their overtime win, and Carolina’s drubbing of Atlanta moved them into the 8th spot by virtue of holding the first tiebreaker [...]
About Last Night …
If you took someone who didn’t have a clue when it came to hockey to the Nassau Coliseum on Thursday night, it may have been hard for that person to distinguish whether the New York Rangers or New York Islanders were the home team, based on the fan mix of the crowd. What’s even more [...]
Why Did Daddy Let My T-birds Fly Astray??
Poor me a beer so I can wash the sadness away. Not because it’s St. Patty’s Day though. No, because I’m a Thrashers fan who was foolish enough to believe in this year’s team. Going into the season, I knew better. We’re too young; new coach and new system; too many new pieces trying to [...]
I Get By With A Little Help From My … Enemies?
Those of you who have been with me since day one last April may remember me mentioning a coworker (and friend) for whom, when it comes to hockey, it was love at first sight late last season. What I didn’t mention back then was that she took a liking to the Buffalo Sabres. So while [...]
Just When You Think You’re Out, THEY PULL YOU BACK IN!
Didn’t the sun already set on the Atlanta Thrashers? Didn’t their season essentially end with the recent 1 - 5 – 1 slide that followed the loss to the Canes (and the subsequent loss of their hold on 8th place) back on February 13th? Why must the Thrashers tease us this way and give us reason again to think they can [...]
So “Slim”, You’re Tellin’ Me There’s a Chance?!
Wednesday nite in Raleigh, NC the Thrashers did something they hadn’t done since January 5th of this year, when they downed the Florida Panthers 3 to 2 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, which is: WIN TWO STRAIGHT GAMES!! Alas, the 2010-11 season has not been one in which the Thrashers have been [...]
City of Atlanta: TIME TO UNLEASH YOUR FURY!!
As any Thrashers fan will tell you, February 2011 has been far from a good month. In short, February has been a brutal month for players, coaches and of course the fans, who have not only suffered the dismay and disappointment of yet another mid-winter Thrashers’ collapse, but also sustained disheartening blow after blow with respect to recent [...]
Pretend No More
This has to be sounding like the same old same old, but unfortunately for months a similar story has surfaced. On the bright side, well maybe a less cloudy side, the pretense appears over. This season the Blackhawks have pulled fans along with the hope that eventually all will be well. It wasn’t intentional deceit [...]
