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28 Comments
If they're gonna expand, they need 4 teams to even out the divisions.
Atlanta
Houston
Portland
Quebec
Please. PLEASE!!!!
Hopefully Atlanta gets a team, we need more canadian teams and it seems putting a team in Atlanta is the best way to make canadian teams đ.
The Avs game in Mullet arena had A TON of empty seats. Whole sections.
Move Oilers to Atlanta
My take from Atlanta hockey fans (who've been texting me non-stop about this) is that they feel like a team is coming and it's only a matter of time. Seems like the buzz has caught them. There's even ownership and gm rumors floating around, which seems way too early. Either way, just wanted to say that the vibe in Atlanta is that they ARE getting a team.
Allvin also said "âI get the support from Jim and ownership to put a competitive team in place", which to me sounds like he has permission to use buyouts, but he just doesn't believe that that's the direction that they should go in.
ATL hockey fan here: if this arena being built does attract another team somehow it may actually work. Atlanta actually has a surprisingly decent hockey market as lots of northerners live here and we have a lot of nice hockey rinks in the north Atlanta suburbs that do killer business and have great hockey communities built around them. This new arena will be in a suburb north of ATL, where our hockey market is and the area is exploding right now. If this does ever become a reality, hopefully the team has competent owners and is at least run decently. The owners of the Thrashers were more concerned on filing lawsuits than managing a major sports market.
6 wins is not nothing. And those 6 wins would only get Canucks to the very last place of playoffs. Does Alvin really think that's enough to compete for the cup?
Something to remember about Atlanta too is that it's usually a fair-weather market so it could've been top half of the league had the Thrashers been good outside of recession years.
I think North Atlanta will work better than Tempe. But they need better management than the past. And the name should be the Trashers not Thrashers, to represent the looter population in big cities.
Quebec City deserves to get a team again before Atlanta does.
Re: Atlanta
"The stadium will be ready in about three years." followed by "This sounds like Tempe."
If the vote in Arizona fails, it might not be expansion to Atlanta but relocation.
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That is a great uni, looks fabulous on my iPad.
You forgot the Atlanta Flames before that…
Screw Atlanta they have had two chances already .
Owners don't care who the people in the arena root for, they sold a ticket and probably a couple of beers and some popcorn.
ATL is an unfairly maligned hockey market. Competent ownership would see a team thrive here, The Canes and The Preds prove it.
Man Arizona is such a shit show.
can't wait for an nhl expansion in Atlanta so we can have another Canadian team
I think if they do another expansion run it will be 4 teams at once hopefully or at least four in rapid succession
You know who needs a NHL team Quebec does they're a passionate people who love hockey.
Ouf. I'm not big into the Canucks. But so far I thought to myself 'this new management has so far been identical to the previous one'. Hearing Shanon say the same thing is a "uh-oh" moment.
I live not far from the site of the new building, I hope it goes well.
Thanks again man!
The league has been arguing for year that the reason the coyotes werenât working was because the arena was too far away, same with the Senators. Even you have been making that argument. Those arguments would have to go out the window if Atlanta get support for an NHL team being put an hour out into the suburbs.
Atlanta's number one export to Canada: hockey teams.
Can't wait to see another team move out of Atlanta in 10 years. Maybe to Quebec this time.