Done deal! Winnipeg receives NHL franchise!!

[midget-boyd91]

GO JETS (Moose?) GO!!!!
GO JETS (Moose?) GO!!!!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/atlanta-thrashers-moving-to-winnipeg/article2029179/

An agreement to sell the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers to a Winnipeg group which plans to relocate the franchise to the Manitoba capital is done.

 

[Nostix]

It's been confirmed to be false, at least for the time being, by multiple sources.

Someone at the Globe jumped the gun based on bad info, apparently.

 

[midget-boyd91]

It's been confirmed to be false, at least for the time being, by multiple sources.

Someone at the Globe jumped the gun based on bad info, apparently.

Are you really going to make me cry on a Thursday night?

 

[Nostix]

I wouldn't get too upset. The deal is still very likely to happen sometime in the next few weeks. It's just not done yet.

 

[HavokFour]

Looks like it's true, the "official" announcement will be made on Tuesday.

 

[Rheostatic]

I was looking for confirmation, and found this.

 

[Nostix]

Looks like it's true, the "official" announcement will be made on Tuesday.

TSN reports that all three groups, the Thrashers, the Winnipeg group, and the NHL are all explicitly denying it.

Without some idea of who exactly the Globe and Mail have as a source, the word is still that nothing is done.

 

[Armymedic]

I'll believe it when I see the puck drop in their first home game.

 

[Journeyman]

The apparent snag in the negotiations is the demand that, if this goes through Toronto would want a professional hockey team too.

 

[HavokFour]

The apparent snag in the negotiations is the demand that, if this goes through Toronto would want a professional hockey team too.

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