Winnipeg WILL Keep Their Team

Okay, so here's how it goes. Sell a team to an owner and the owner moves the team to another location. Seattle moved to Oklahoma City under new ownership. Get that? Well, it looks like another team will be moving to a completely different city. For Winnipeg, it's the return of hockey.

The Atlanta Thrashers' ownership completed a deal to relocate the struggling Thrashers to an owner in Winnipeg. So basically the Thrashers are done in Atlanta and Atlanta loses its second NHL team in history.

Here's how it should go for Atlanta: If you want the team in Atlanta, stop being the lowest attendance in the NHL and actually start rooting for your team. You play in the Southeast Division. It's not like the Central Division where the Blackhawks and Red Wings are willing to kill you each game. At least one thing's for certain: they're better at being Falcons fans than Thrasher fans.

I think this is good for Winnipeg, however, because honestly hockey is a Canadian team and there should be more teams in Canada, not six teams in all the major cities. Good start but how about move the Coyotes to Quebec or some other isolated Canadien city? Oh, never mind, I like going to Phoenix. That team will stay.

But here's the catch: The team in Winnipeg will stay. Why? Because of Canada. Hockey is essential in that small city. I think Winnipeg definitely will keep their team there because they lost it several years ago and this time around, they will make sure that the team doesn't leave again. I hope they're right, because I want to stop going to Atlanta and start going to Canadien cities for my hockey.



Sorry, Atlanta, it's not like the Thrashers wanted to live. Let's just say with Tampa Bay and Washington right in there, it probably wasn't meant to be. And if you got into the playoffs, which you haven't for at least five years, then there would be some chance you would stay there. Yet, it's not.