NHL 2009-2010 Season

[C.C.R.]

and Atlanta is much too large to give up the team.

Well, sure -- Calgary already has a team...

[C.C.R.]

Blatantly stolen from ESPN:

"You can't spell 'Ovechkin' without 'C-H-O-K-E.'"

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Russian mafia got to Ovechkin.

[Neil]

The Sharks are a bit divey, aren't they?

Then again, so long as Detroit loses, it's not so bad.

[Jaron]

Tense game for San Jose 

[PRC]

Winnipeg will never have an NHL team again.

[Barrister]

Winnipeg will never have an NHL team again.

Noted for posterity.   

[PRC]

Note that I didn't say an NHL team won't play there.. ala exhibition or even a few regular season games like playing in Euro zone... but the spirit holds true... there will never be an NHL team calling Winnipeg home for the rest of time.

[Jaron]

Victory!

[katmai]

Contraction will happen before a NHL team calls Winnipeg home again.

[Barrister]

Note that I didn't say an NHL team won't play there.. ala exhibition or even a few regular season games like playing in Euro zone... but the spirit holds true... there will never be an NHL team calling Winnipeg home for the rest of time.

Noted for posterity.   

Same for katmai. 

[Grey Fox]

There will be a team in Winnipeg, that team will also be in Saskatoon.

[Neil]

There will be a team in Winnipeg, that team will also be in Saskatoon.

Saskatoon is a pretty small place.  It's like having a team in Halifax, only with a bit more money, and a lot more old people.

At least Winnipeg has a larger population, although most of that is Indians, poor people and people who ceased to be employed once NAFTA and cheap air travel erased the need to travel through the wetlands of Manitoba in order to get from the Eastern Urban Zone to the Western Urban Zone.

[Valmy]

If you go to 2001 they were in 8th.

So what happened?  Coloradans could no longer bear to attend a sport played by foreigners after a nationalistic revival following 9/11?

[Neil]

If you go to 2001 they were in 8th.

So what happened?  Coloradans could no longer bear to attend a sport played by foreigners after a nationalistic revival following 9/11?

The Avalanche went from being super hockey-warrriors whose only mission in life was to contend for the Cup to being also-rans.