Updated: Another suitor for the Thrashers?

Great news that Ownership is willing to sell at a reduced price to keep in Atlanta. Whether or not this is true, we’ll just wait and see.

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First!

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Yet more wagging the dog, me thinks.

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They’re gone, enjoy the Hawks ATL.

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If new owners keep Thrashers in Atlanta and FIRE wadell, I’ll go to 10 games, that’s a 450 mile round trip to me. That is the best I can do.

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Don Wad has about as much credibility as that dipstick from Globe an Mail.

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I tend not to listen to Wadell, he has told us lies for years.

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I would have so much more confidence in the Thrashers staying if ANYONE other than Don Waddell was in charge of ‘finding a buyer’.

Is he also in charge of negotiations with True North in Winnipeg? If so, then we might be okay.

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Ok, gonna try not to be skeptical here but if you were ASG would you play it any other way? You are not going to say “We only want to deal with TNSE because no one local will pay us anywhere near as much”. Who knows? I have been so wrong up to this point…sigh…

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No exclusivity agreement with TNSE? True North will be compensated nicely when the announcement comes that ATL is keeping the Thrashers.

TNSE gets 5 mil for their time in PHX.
TNSE gets 5 mil for their time in ATL.

10mil compensation from the league for using their name as a bargaining chip.

Easy money for True North.

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John Smoltz = Closer

Tom Glavine = Not a Closer …Yet

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I have a feeling DW is the only one “in the room” that wants to keep the Thrashers in Atlanta.

My gut tells me it’s BS PR by ASG for some minor damage control prior to the move.

My heart is hoping there is some truth…….come on Tommy G, make it happen….you want your kids playing for the Thrashers in 15 years, right?

Get Stan Kasten and Bernie Mullin on the phone..surely they have a few million laying around to invest?

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Watch Waddell twist this around into a perspective buyer was committed to buying at a greatly reduced price….that’s why the AS were forced to sell to TNSE at near market value.

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JMC, I’ve been thinking about the exclusivity thing. I don’t think they can grant exclusivity to TNSE at any time, because they have to leave the door open for a local buyer, or buyer who wants to keep the team it ATL at least, right up until BoG approval.

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Could be a lucky break for the NHL because you absolutely don’t want the comical city name of Winnipeg added to the likes of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles etc..etc..

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Hoping for a miracle at this point.

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Haha, you’re just scared to see a team be more successful in a city 1/7th the size of Atlanta.

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For anyone that might have missed it, the BoG is about as interested in putting a team in tiny loserpeg, as I am.. It would appear a consensus of BoG members has determined that the Good Saint Bettman find an alternative to relocation..

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The NHL needs to stay out of Canada’s largest truckstop.

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Chris, looks like you were right. We SHOULD keep watching television news for investigative journalism on this topic.

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If they move I’ll long for the day of running into Leaveson and Gearon to emphatically (but peacefully) express my anger and heartedly hope for consequences reverberating through their local basketball endeavors. if they don’t move, I plan on doubling down on Season tickets and holding a giant sign at opening game “Gearon and Leveson: All is Forgiving”. I may even go to a basketball game or two and start taking an interest.

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“what has the hell has he done for Atlanta…”

The good Saint Bettman is about to save your hockey team because those are his orders.. Really the saving grace for BOTH Atlanta and Phoenix are that the alternative is loserpeg.. The NHL BoG would rather put a team in Kabul..

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Greatly reduced price means $110 million. If $109.9 million then ASG incompetents will sell to TSNG. A believe the city should change the ATL airport code to TBS and change the Atlanta city name to Turnerville if this should happen! PLease Ted, say it’s so!

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NHL would much rather have this team stay in Atlanta and be successful but the city has to step up….has anyone seen any data anywhere on how many season tickets the Thrashers have averaged the past few years?

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Chris

There is More to this story….

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“Really the saving grace for BOTH Atlanta and Phoenix are that the alternative is loserpeg.. The NHL BoG would rather put a team in Kabul.”

This is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. The reason why Bettman doesn’t want a team in Winnipeg isn’t because Winnipeg can’t handle the team. It’s to save his own skin. The minute he moves one of the teams he put in the south (Atlanta, Carolina, Phoenix etc.) is the minute he admits his legacy of expanding the league as commissioner has been nothing but an abject failure – which it has been considering how few people teams like Florida, Tampa, Atlanta and Phoenix draw per game. He’s always had a giant ego. It has nothing to do with Atlanta, Phoenix or Winnipeg and everything to do with himself.

Smart business sense says that the teams in Phoenix, Carolina, Tampa, Florida, Atlanta, Nasvhille should be moved. Not even to Canadian cities but cities further north who actually have heard of the sport where, even if money can’t be made, the league would lose less of it.

Serious question – how many seasons has Atlanta made money? I live in Toronto and I’m sick and tired of subsidising teams with an average “paid” attendance of 8,000 people a game. I dish out $110 for one ticket a few rows back of the top of the arena whereas teams like Atlanta and Phoenix can’t even give away tickets. Can anyone honestly sit here and tell me why my hard earned money is going to your team which then turn around and beat my Leafs? Can anyone here defending the Thrashers honestly defend this? I’ve seen people blame management but this is squarely on the fans. You bitch and whine now but why wasn’t anyone buying tickets before?

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I’ll tell you this much … if Don Waddell ACTUALLY MANAGES to SAVE THIS TEAM, his standing in this town will improve exponentially. It’d be “the thing he finally got right.” If Don Waddell shows up to a game in Winnipeg, those Manitobans should give him a standing ovation. And Waddell should stand and say, “I couldn’t done it all, myself. Please, Gearsons, Levenson, Seydell, Pescowitz, Turner, stand and take a bow, for your league minimum budgets helped this team get here. Together, we drove this hockey into the ground in Atlanta, and alienated an entire hockey fanbase.”

Silver lining? Actually, I’ve got one. All I’ve ever, ever asked for this Thrashers franchise … was an ownership to care for it, and hold scouts, coaches, trainers, and GM’s accountable for their work. It’s a shame it took relocating it to Winnipeg, Manitoba, to make that happen, but AT LAST, it will happen! True North, I feel confidently, will CARE and nurture their product. If True North is within $3 to $5 million of the cap limit, year-after-year, the Winnipeg team should have fairly decent success. They should have ‘player retention.’ They should have have the ability to compete in free agency, out on the open market, with the player’s agent recognizing that Winnipeg is a ‘committed market’ to the pursuit of the Cup. Last time I checked, those were all good things. Too bad, they couldn’t happen here, as fans were alienated and systematically driven away, by an uncaring and arguably incompetent and beligerant ownership group.

I do wonder, however, how this would have played out in Canada? And every Canadian is capable of being honest. I know that. But will they be honest? Imagine an ownership group in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, or Calgary … that kept league minimum budgets, the same GM, and Head Scout, in charge … for 11 seasons, without a playoff win. And just one playoff berth. What would they do? Complain to the media? Demand change? Well, okay. That sounds good. But what next?, when the ownership responds by saying, “You fans are all idiots. Don Waddell is a GENIUS, well-respected in NHL circles. Get over it. He’s not getting fired. Nothing will change. We’re raising ticket prices. Deal with it! Now, go buy up your tickets.” Honesty counts, now. You all know how to be honest, when called upon to do so. Did I mention eleven years of this has come to pass? One playoff berth. No playoff wins. And nine (9) Top 10 overall picks with which to build the franchise. The Head of Scouting has placed two picks out of fifty-five (2/55) between the 2nd and 6th round into the starting lineups, over those 11 years. Beeee honest, now. Your honesty is on the line. What is your truthful answer … about attending games, and subsidizing incompetence, and apathy on the part of ownership? If you really answered, “tightening our purse strings, forking over the increased prices, (only to be discounted 50-percent in November) to make sure the team stays,” then … at least you’re consistent. There’s something to be said for consistency. But there’s something more powerful and resounding about “honesty.” Remember, we’re not talking, even remotely, about wins and losses. We’re talking about ‘intent.’ We’re talking about an ownership’s willingness … TO TRY to improve. More specifically, ownership’s unwillingness to TRY. Uhh, while alienating the fan base. Lost, entirely, apparently, is the notion, “Hey GM, you WILL pack the house with fans! Or YOU’RE FIRED!” That was never part of the equasion, ostensibly. Waddell could merely GIVE AWAY thousands of tickets, with the blessings of ownership. Freebies weren’t a problem, I guess. The ability to correctly diagnose the problem, make the necessary changes, and win back the fans … apparently never crossed their minds. It’s kind of staggering to run a business like that. “We don’t care about the appearance we give to the consumers. That’s not our concern.”

Hmmn. What can you say?? Here’s what I would say. NHL, learn how to vet an ownership entity for all your markets. Seriously. That’s your burden. If you can’t find one, step in to run the team. I don’t want the NHL here … if they’re not going to understand the Atlanta landscape. The NHL should have put the team ELSEWHERE in 1999, if this was the way they were going to allow ownership to run the franchise. It’s fair to say that the interest level in hockey DECREASED in Atlanta … while the franchise was here. They not only didn’t GROW the sport, they killed the interest that was here.

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“Obligatory ad-hominem attack on the messenger.”

Honestly, after reading so many of the whiny, tinfoil hat, braindead comments attacking the reporter who’s trying to *accurately* cover a thorny issue I’m kinda hoping the Thrashers DO move to Winnipeg just to annoy those particular people. Honestly, y’all would get along great with the backbiting ASG SOB’s.

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Nick, that’s not even CLOSE to the dysfunction that exists here. The ownership never WANTED the NHL franchise. They were FORCED to take it, to get the NBA team. And operating right to the venue. They flatout, don’t care about hockey. In Toronto, the ownership does CARE. At least, a little bit.

Many have said, for YEARS, “Fans must stay away in Toronto. That will AFFECT change.” Has that happened? No. Does Leaf Ownership get every dollar they crave? Yes, they do. So, what precisely, would force them to change how they do business?? Some crickets chirp. Off in the distance, a coyote howls … and then some tumble weeds roll by.

The fans and the media, in Toronto, play a role, (though not the major role,) as to why the Leafs haven’t had so much as a “sniff” at a Cup … in 43 years. Me, personally, I hope Toronto does win the Stanley Cup in my lifetime. And I hope what prompts it, is a fan revolt. Though, truthfully, I think the Leafs have a very fine GM, in Brian Burke. And that, eventually, things will work out. I was surprised by the Phil Kessel trade, as that seemed “un-Burke-like” of him. But, it’s done. It cannot be undone. And the Leafs must muster on. And so they will. When Toronto does get back into the playoffs, watch out! They’ll probably be going deep. Quick fixes don’t usually work. It takes a minimum of three (3) years … of a slow, methodical build. Burke tried to ‘jump start’ the process. He should have known better. But, it’s not like “all is lost” in Toronto. The Leafs will, eventually, get it done. It takes ‘commitment’ to the building process, though. I understand that the fans of Tornto are impatient. Of course, they are. In a league with a salary cap, Toronto should be among the field of playoff bound teams.

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Why is Toronto always the example used by Canadians, probably because EVERY OTHER FRANCHISE has had attendance issues at one point in time.. The Leafs are an anomaly, NOT an example..

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So i”m just gonna state what everybody else is to scared to say. Hockey is a white person sport. Basketball is a black person sport, see where im going with this??

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The only franchise in Canada that has had attendance issue is Ottawa, mostly because it’s a government town – no one is local. Edmonton has finished dead last the past 2 years and has sold out regularly.

Brendan – What does it say about the viability of an NHL franchise to begin with when an ownership group doesn’t want to buy but have to to get an NBA team? It says it was never going to work out to begin with. The owners probably understood what a lot of people here don’t understand. TV contracts don’t matter in hockey – gate revenue and merchandise does. If you can’t draw people to games you won’t ever make money. The more people get “pissed” at ownership and not show up, the more they seal the eventual fate of the Thrashers. The reason why Atlanta spends to the cap floor instead of the cap ceiling is because nobody goes to the games. The management looks bad because they’ve never had the money to throw around because no one has gone to the games and they’ve never made money. You’re right, it takes time to build a hockey team. Unfortuantely, business wise, if they spent to the cap the three years, they would’ve gone bankrupt in the process. It’s a vicious cycle. You want the Thrashers to stay, give Waddell the money to get better players. With the lot he’s been given, he’s done a good job.

As for the Leafs, this is a pretty dumb comment. Fans staying away won’t make the Leafs win. The team has had incompetent management but that doesn’t mean the people running the team don’t want to win. With competent management or without competent management, the team has always spent to the cap. Outside the cap, the team never had a problem being right up there with the Rangers as the highest spending team in the league. Furthermore, the fact is that every single playoff game is pure profit for any NHL team, nevermind the Leafs. The deeper you go into the playoffs, the higher the price of the tickets, the more money there is to be made. Not to mention that anyone who brings a cup back here will be sainted. As for “building” it fails just as much as it wins. You get teams like Pittsburgh and Chicago who win, but the most prolific team in the last 20 years has shunned that model completely.

You still didn’t answer the question as to if it’s really fair for me to be paying for a franchise that can’t make money because the team can’t even give away tickets.

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G52PIM228,

Would you please do your research before making any statement? With seating capacity of 21 273, the Bell Centre has the highest seating capacity in the NHL. That obviously excluding the standing room other arenas may have. Since January 2004, the Canadiens have been selling out EVERY ONE of their home games; pre-, regular-, or post-season.

In addition, since moving to the Bell Centre in 1996 until that January 2004, the Canadiens had only one season where the the average attendance was less than 20 000: 2001/2002 with 18 990.

Seeing that the Habs’ worst attendance record is much better than the maximum capacity of Thrashers’ and Coyotes’ arenas – which are never sold-out – what attendance issue were you writing about?

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G52PIM228
May 28th, 2011
2:04 pm

Why is Toronto always the example used by Canadians, probably because EVERY OTHER FRANCHISE has had attendance issues at one point in time.. The Leafs are an anomaly, NOT an example..

I NEVER thought it would happen, but I agree with G52 on this one. It’s ludicrous to hold up the Leafs as the benchmark example of Canadian hockey, lol.

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Oh, and yO – what a tool.

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I want the Thrashers to stay here as much as everyone else, but we shouldnt direct our anger at the people of Winnipeg, they just want hockey too, it’s the Loser owners who should feel our wrath if we lose OUR team. I’d rather Winnipeg get an expansion team.

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This is pretty funny, you people only THINK you hate the Good Saint Bettman now, wait until he saves the Thrashers..

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I used to be a full season ticket holder. Then I was a partial season ticket holder. Then I was not a season ticket holder.

IF, and I repeat IF, the A$G manage to hold their nose and actually sell to an owner who is interested in putting a successful team on the ice AND IF the new owners immediately dismiss Don Waddell, THEN I will once again be a season ticket holder for next season.

I managed to make 10-15 games last year and the team is on the verge of being great. Great core group, finally a GM who sees the big picture and understands team chemistry and a coaching staff who holds players accountable. They fizzled the second half, didn’t have the depth. But what I saw, made me excited and hopeful for next season. . . . lets hope we can watch that excitement in person!

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A season ticket holder apparently knows a millionaire who wants to lose money on the Thrashers? BS.

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I think everyone needs to chill. Gearon said the deal is 80% done. Winnipeg already has a Zamboni on the ice and the NHL wants this deal over and done with. If something happens and we get to keep our team Winnipeggers would go totally maple.The NHL wants this deal finished and put to bed, and the fastest way to do that is by allowing the team to be sold. I hate this as much as anyone, but it is what it is.

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Uh oh.. My little stalker snow monkey seems mad.. Is it something I said.. loserpeg is no more getting an NHL franchise than Atlantis is.. You idiots are so funking stupid it is hard to believe..

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Canaduh is becoming less and less relevant to the NHL, it’s called “progress”..

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Still as relevant as ever and the reason why the NHL is avoiding loserpeg like the plague..

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2010/12/8/1536097/nhl-relocation-winnipeg-quebec-city

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Rather than worry about who this new mystery prospective buyer may be or fight with passionate Winnipeggers who will never concede any point in an argument (as they will never fully understand the depth and breadth of the A$G’s mismanagement and ill-intent), why not just call up a tkt rep and plunk down a deposit for season tkts next season? We have nothing to lose but a hockey team at this point.

If this new prospective is more than just BS being fed to us as cover to make it seem like good-faith efforts are being made, then why not bowl him/her over with an impressive run on ST deposits?? For only $200, you can reserve your seats through a monthly pmt plan option. At worst, you tie up $200 of cash that you will get back in a month or so if the team is sold to WPG. If this new prospective is serious, don’t you think it would help to make a deposit as a pledge of faith? So go ahead and show the prospective that you’re a serious prospective buyer and supporter of NHL hockey under new management!

Nothing wrong with a little blind show of faith when the risk of inaction is far greater: do you really want to lose your hockey team Atlanta??

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The NHL is no more interested in putting a team in tiny loserpeg than the NFL..

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The real G52’s AJC greatest hits:

G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
3:46 pm

Uh oh.. My little stalker snow monkey seems mad.. Is it something I said.. loserpeg is no more getting an NHL franchise than Atlantis is.. You idiots are so funking stupid it is hard to believe..

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G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
3:47 pm

When the Thrashers stay put, I bet it puts the insane stupidity about an NHL team returning to loserpeg to rest..

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G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
3:55 pm

Canaduh is becoming less and less relevant to the NHL, it’s called “progress”..

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/2011/05/27/20110527phoenix-coyotes-ilya-bryzgalov-budget-dominoes.html#comments#ixzz1NgMqbnGr

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G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
12:35 pm

Loserpeg is going to get exactly what they deserve.. NOTHING..

Way to count your chickens before they have hatched.. IDIOTS.. How humiliating..

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G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
12:37 pm

For anyone that might have missed it, the BoG is about as interested in putting a team in tiny loserpeg, as I am.. It would appear a consensus of BoG members has determined that the Good Saint Bettman find an alternative to relocation..

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But..I think the city of glendale bent over and took it u………I do admit I am for freedom of expression..(I’m gay but that is a right !) I trash glendale Az, I trash winnipeg..but I keep posting to my self..sad but pls. support me on the coyote boards?

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My team, the NHL Yotes, have had attendance problems for 15 years. I certainly hope my social worker gets a couple of free tickets this year so I can go to a game.

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I clicked the link. It is legit. Just a url-shortened link to the real YouTube site.

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@OHL Have you never been to Youtube?! they always give you the Youtu.be link when you click “share”

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Well maybe it is cheaper and they want to keep it here, because of the basketball going on strike. If that happenes and no hockey ASG will not have tenants in the building and they will not be making any money at all. But then again they payed $100,000,000 for Joe Johnson. There is little hope but you never know.

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The Real G52PIM228 Thrashers Suck

G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
3:46 pm

Uh oh.. My little Bumb buddy monkey seems mad.. Is it something I said.. ASSLANTA is no more getting an NHL franchise than LooserGlensa AZ COYTOES. You idiots are so funking stupid it is hard to believe..

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G52PIM228

May 28th, 2011
3:47 pm

When the Thrashers leave, I bet it puts the insane stupidity about an NHL team staying in GlenFail AZ to rest..

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“I’m sorry little snow monkey impostor, but the reason I made you feel stupid is because I AM STUPID. I am not not even the smartest kid in my class, Because I am A DumbNutts you really had no chance against me and the Thrashers are leaving for good! ”. The Coyotes are leaving too! I need my meds now…

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the trolls on here need to get a friggin life

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I feel sorry for the few hardcore thrashers fans,cause there moving to winnipeg.All they have done in atlanta is loose money,what buisness man would want to keep a team there,to loose 30 to 40 million a year

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What a great thing for us. No chance we sell this team for a one penny less than we can get. If this “new suiter” drives the price up, we will be in 7th heaven. Suckers!

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@Thrashers Good point buddy…but I hope you will give the same ADVICE to Phoniex fans who continually berate other cities like atlanta , winnipeg etc.. and gloat that the NHL has saved the coyotes… and Atlanta was sacrificed…thiers enough evidence of this already..So are you being Hypocritical? why not join the coyotes forum and voice your opinion thier as well?

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“I think someone needs to find themselves a girlfriend.”

I’m all for it but my Wife would likely object.

I somehow get the feeling that he probably wouldn’t mind. OK, now I’m really gone.

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Dear Mr. Glavine, we are all sorry for the nasty things we said about you when you left town for the Mets. We still hate the Mets and NYC, but we love you and hope you give up millions to buy the Trashers. Please have Mr. Turner throw in a small fraction of what he spent on the U.N. and Jane Fonda, and the deal will get done. Thank you,

Boots

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Hey SUITOR – I am gonna invest into your company, just buy thrashers and keep them in atlanta.

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Thrashers,

Thanks! I never knew that. We are always told at work never to click on anything that doesn’t begin with “www”. I know there’s exceptions for file sharing and others things but our websites get garbage all the time. Since this is a forum/messageboard/blog I imagine people try to slip things past the security. I think your Foxsports get’s it the most for the US ones. I don’t use TSN or ESPN but they must get it too. That and I personally have had the citibank e-mails sent to me asking for passwords or stuff when I don’t even have a citibank account and there is always 1 letter or number off in the address.

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Sorry, guys. False alarm. It was just me who “stepped up on Thursday”.

You see, I have a friend who is a big Thrashers fan and a season ticket holder. When he told me that the ASG was willing to offer a big discount to a local buyer, I said “what the heck, I’ll buy them.” It should already be obvious, since my friend has Thrashers season tickets, that he’s not all that smart. He got a little too excited and made a few phone calls. Next thing you know, I’m on the phone with Levenson, Waddell, Bettman, and a few lawyers. It turns out that their idea of a “discount price” is more than $100 million over my budget.

I suppose this is how Tweet rumors get started.

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Must be Tyler Perry.

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Atlanta couldn’t hang onto a winner (the Flames), and don’t want a loser (the Thrashers). The District of Columbia couldn’t hang onto two losers (the Senators, I and II), but they still got a THIRD shot (the Nats, albeit after 35 years). Does Atlanta really deserve a third chance at the NHL?

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Great idea, but why stop at $250M? Charge TNSE $2 Billion so that the NHL can continue to prop up Atlanta, Phoenix, Columbus, Nashville, etc. I like it!

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Will the real G52 stand up? It worked you jerk offs in Atlanta. You are lame to stalk me. Restraining order is being filed.

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Pee in my shower will ya!

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watch tv channel 8 – no way Wiiped Jerks get one. A thrasher will die so a yote will eat.

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Just now

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If any good comes of the Thrashers moving, it’s that John Kincade is permanently discredited with his “Balkan” B.S.

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Yall are idiots. The deal is done. I promise you all. Team is moving to Winnipeg. This is all PR.

DEAL IS DONE. JUST WATCH.

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I propose a moratorium on reporting anything Thrasher/Jet related until something is concrete one way or the other. No more blogs, news articles, TV news reports, twitter updates, new facebook pages…. water-cooler talk. It’s filling us all with false hopes or fears. Half my hair has turned grey over the last couple of month’s from the worry!

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shhhh

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This interested suitor in purchasing the Thrashers, i assume are smart and just realize that the crappy team loses millions every year and just back down.

Unfortunately for you Thrasher fans…we (Winnipeg) will own ur CRAP team, True North will dissect it, split them up, get rid of most of those panzys one by one with their outright release and replace them with better players and personnel that Billionaire David Thomson and True North can afford.

Maybe even bring ur Thrashers banners u have hanging on ur rafters HERE, burn them and piss on the ashes. LoL… WAIT, Thrashers prolly dont even have any banners. u guys never achieved enough. my bad

Plus, we wouldnt call the team the Thrashers, thats such a lame name. The only thing that was THRASHED was your attendance records and fan base with the 6 fans you have.

Anywho… Talk you guys when we take over. See ya

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there’s hope, afterall

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Hey G52 you pimple-faced little coward behind a comp…Get a life and find a girlfriend or go and deliver some pizza peewee… Did I say girlfriend? Sorry best you’ll do is a stuffed white monkey from your crib.

Whatever happens with this hockey saga I just want it over already… Its old and past its prime.

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Again, again.

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This is the right thing to do considering Belkin screwed the fans & the ATL!!!!

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[...] Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Another group stepped forward with interest in buying the Thrashers and keeping the team in Atlanta. Statement from president Don Waddell. “Along with all other groups who have expressed an interest in pursuing an ownership opportunity, which has happened as recently as earlier this week, we have said continuously that ‘until an agreement is signed and approved by the board of governors, it’s never too late but they will have to move very quickly and decisively.  Ownership still is committed to selling at a greatly reduced price to anyone committed to Atlanta.’  ” /* Share and Enjoy: [...]

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I guess you can use the term “filmmaker” to describe someone that has only made one movie and works as the fry guy at In N Out Burger but you cant use the phrase “potential buyer” to refer to Mr Rollins

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Uggh, it’s hardly encouraging that a filmaker is supposedly interested in purchasing the team. If one of our local mega millionaires, like Arthur Blank or Bernie Marcus, showed interest… now that would be reason to feel a little bit encouraged.This sounds about as credible as the reports about Lil Wayne’s interest (I’m not criticizing Chris’s report, because he needs to keep us up-to-date, but this sounds like yet another tease)

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Forget you

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glavine, rollins, the balkan. . …
thanks for reporting nothing fox 5.
winnipeg thrashers to the ice in 2011.

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Frankly, who cares? It’s ice hockey.

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BIG news…As of this morning the group led by TT and TG have secured the rights to the Thrasher’s ,terms/amount not disclosed ,but looks like good news for ATL and bad news for Winney..no more re-alignment issues…wahoo!

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didn’t the article say a filmmaker couldn’t that be Tyler perry?

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Rob- Please supply a “source” for your Big News comments…

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A filmmaker huh? Well, that’s pretty cool. Thanks, Snoop, you’re my favorite Dogg! And might I add that I like your films quite a lot, sir.

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Common ATL! Let’s pull off the 3rd period upset, like we did at PHILLY against the Flyers!

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…and, oh yeah, the South will never rise again.

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Tyler Perry has net worth of $350mil, with a projected 2011 paycheck of $130mil (on top of the existing $350mil). That’s probably enough to go it alone, if necessary.

Interestingly enough, that’s not even enough to make Forbes … the top 400 bottom out at $1bil … http://www.forbes.com/wealth/forbes-400#p_1_s_arank_-1_

There are only 5 members in Georgia : Anne Cox Chambers and Jim Kennedy (both Cox Enterprises), S. Truett Cathy (Chick Fil-A), and Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank (Home Depot)

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I never feel stupid, I’ve never been used. I’m trying to find the simplest way to convince the largest group of people I’ve ever seen assebled, led by a blogger who couldn’t get a job wiritng in most community college newsletters that regardless of what tidbit, regurgitated sound byte he throws around, it’s over. That’s why he’s a cheerleader for the AG brass. Watch and see where he goes when this team is sold. He’ll probably be offered a PR job within thier orginization. Most writers/bloggers who kiss butt in these suituations always end up working for those they refuse to call on the carpet. Or as I like to call him a YES MAN!

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Do you people actually believe that they might stay there? The deal is done. The (soon to be ex) owners are just yanking your chain.

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They are going to Winnipeg.
Give up already guys, lets just go watch WNBA

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Russ, I expect that the last idiots will understand the message of Kane & Buff wearing Winnipeg/ Manitoba color in an actual NHL game.

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I hear ya !! then again I was with ya !!
good times

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ThrashersFan2040: I’d go watch the WNBA…except that the Dream play in Philips. Until/unless the Thrashers are confirmed to stay, I won’t set foot in the building again. If/when the Thrashers do get relocated out of town, then I’m done with that arena for good…no more of my money in ASG pockets if there’s no hockey team here (spoken as a since-day-one-continuing-season-ticket-holder who still keeps pouring more good money into the Thrashers mismanaged product).

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go jets go canada rocks

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yup !! Congrats to the ‘peg

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sea monkeys have all me money

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WHO ARE THESE BLOGGERS? All but a few of the bloggers that i have associated with are GONE. AJC has got to get control of this. I applaude all my blogging friends for not associating with these trolls. Maybe we can talk some more when all the blog trash has gone. GO THRASHER’S!!

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Glendale ownz… i ain’t leaving… sucka

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will someone answer that damn phone

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feels like i’m talking to myself

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G52 is a meth head just like the rest of the good people of Phoenix. Not only does he reply to his own posts, he replies to the replies. Either he’s impotent or is likely a janitor or both. He tries to compensate for the frustration he feels constantly in his meaningless life by trying to stir people up in meaningless sports blogs. Future serial killer for sure.

I’m sure that after the Thrashers end up staying in Atlanta he’ll go to Dallas blogs or St Louis or wherever the hell else the NHL uses Winnipeg as the gun-to-the-head to extort money from somebody.

Keep whackin off G52, maybe you’ll pull it off.

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too bad atlanta sucks. losing your second team. black mark forever.

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am I in manitoba site? G52… and rest of elks get outta here…AJC is for atlanta fans

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There’s as many seals in Manitoba as there are dolphins in Arizona. G52 is another product of the 3rd world public education system in the United States.

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I”m sorry Atlanta thrashers fans,big money there does not want a hockey team,they don’t know how to run a hockey team (big money don’t). Winnipeg gains from your failure(big money) (Canada twice) any Atlanta thrashers fan’s who come to future NHL game’s in WPG wear your Atlanta thrashers jersey.I am positive that the Winnipeg NHL (don’t know new name yet)fans around you will treat you to as many beer as you can drink to help you drowned your sorrows and hope you embrace the team like are going to,WARNING DRINK SLOW SO AS YOU DON’T PASS OUT BY THE END OF THE FIRST PERIOD THE BEER HERE IS STRONGER

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i prefer semen… slides down easy

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Mr Bill

May 29th, 2011
11:10 pm
To late for Thrashers to move if you think about it, just think of everything that has to go on in Winnipeg to get ready for season thats only a few months away. Training camp starts in September, they have to get a team name uniforms but before that you have free agency and Atlanta has some free agents also you have a draft coming up plus they have to get a staff in place looks like they won’t keep Dudley or Ramsey also a test ticket drive has to be done to see if Winnipegers will committ to three years of Season Tickets also the NHL needs to consider they have an arena that will hold 15000 and we averaged just over 13000 this season. Just think they are trying to fill up about 1500-2000 more seats not that big of a deal. They need an Arena that will hold atleast 18000 or 19000, also lets say you have 15000 a game that is still average and its not a sell out compared to other arenas. Even if you get 15000 a game and there are another 3-4000 who want to get in well they won’t be able to. That means they lose money. If I were True North I would seriously consider walking away from this because they won’t be able to get good quality players and the end result they will be left out in the cold a financial melt down. If I were them I would have that arena expanded so it could sit more people because its the NHL and not the AHL and right now its not NHL ready, I don’t care what they say.

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@Mr Bill : you are the clown… where did you see games with tickets for 5 bucks? You probably have no ideas about thrashers situation and came to this site to troll?

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Would you clowns once and for all forget about the attendance?! Winnipeg could sell 10000 tickets a game and still make more money than the Thrashers.

I must admit that the new Winnipeg ownership’s strategy for attracting fans is well thought out. Because there is little chance that such a small-time little barf bag of a town can possibly hold it’s own with the rest of the league in attendance the ownership has announced what will be an ongoing promotion for all home games.

During intermission, the first 500 fans at each home game will get to bend over and crack a smile for Bullwinkle Moose. That’s one promotion that is sure to pack ‘em in!!!

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we don’t have to beat the rest of the league in attendance ,we will always be in the middle when it comes to attendance not 2nd or 3rd last

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As many of you requested to have us Canadians leave this site, we will. But I guess you still need 80% of our players to support NHL in any state. Americans rule Football, Canadians rule Hockey. Thats the way it is. G52’s comments remind me of my teen daughters fighting with all the disrespect and imature comments based on his or her ignorance. Profanity is a lazy mind trying to express itself forcefully.

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correct me if im wrong ,i don’t care im a modest Canadian and deal in fact not BS.the league avg this year was 17,132 . Atlanta’s avg was 13,469(72% capacity) ,MTS Center(Winnipeg) capacity is 15,015 they are expanding box seating right now.the seating capacity when the renovations are done ? is there going to be more general seating included in the renovations ? from what I’ve read ,announced attendance at Atlanta thrashers games is exaggerated every game. I have seen pictures of the arena when the Atlanta thrashers play, you must get alot more blizzards then we ever do.There is the rule about supply and demand ,never let your supply exceed your demand (seating) i enjoy a good argument but lets deal in facts ,yes the BOG fact is really starting to bother me, but its true in the end it just might kill hockey in Winnipeg next year not anyone or group in Atlanta

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et The Puck Out

May 29th, 2011
8:11 pm
WHO ARE THESE BLOGGERS? All but a few of the bloggers that i have associated with are GONE. AJC has got to get control of this. I applaude all my blogging friends for not associating with these trolls. Maybe we can talk some more when all the blog trash has gone. GO THRASHER’S!!

GO THRASHERS…OUT OF ATLANTA WHERE PRO HOCKEY WILL NEVER EVER RETURN AGAIN!!!!!

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Mr. Bill …me and G52 want our money!!!! But you talk out of both sides of your mputh. No tem next season, well not in Atlanta….and you also don’t have $1,000 either. Two true facts, you’d have to seel that traler you live n, and it even if you did it’ not worth the $1,000 each you’d owe us for thinking there will be a hokey team here next season. Dream on, Dream on, Drean unitl those dreams come true!!!!

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I think it is better to have a 15,000 seat arena in Winnipeg as opposed to 17,000. Really, adding 2,000 nose bleed seats does not make or break a team. Having a smaller capacity will make tickets more scarce and thus in hot demand.

The worst situation to be in is to be like Atlanta. People know that they can always buy a ticket as a walk-up, and therefore don’t need to commit in advance. Buying season tickets at full value is stupid when they deeply discount tickets during the season. It just creates downward pressure on ticket revenue.

15,000 seats in Winnipeg is fine. If they create ticket scarcity and force people to commit in advance, they will generate plenty of revenue per ticket.

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OK as bad as loserpeg is, atlanta is worse
they have the worst sports fans PERIOD.
that is why the BoG will save Glendale and not you idiots

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it’s ATLANTA genious. I agree “Klan” is a sexier name than thrashers.

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Well, since we are all here talking about NHL matters and getting along so well. How about we talk about hockey . . .

Which team do u think will win the Finals? Canucks or Bruins?

I think Canucks win in 6.

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Sorry folks but even with the new “potential” buyer, this deal is done. From all sources, the deal will be completed either by tomorrow and announcement is expected by Thursday.

For those following the Coyotes, they are not out of the woods either. City Council still have to pass the motion and come up with the rest of the money for the NHL. Failing that, the team is still up for grabs. 50m for 2 years of renting a team; that imo, is worse than what TNSE is paying for the Thrashers.

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Chris, on behalf of the “real” fans of the team and your blogs, I think it is time to shut the blog down. This blog is being populated by morons and is making a bad situation worse.

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@ G52PIM228……what an angry little man you just be. I can just picture you, sitting at your 386 Pentium computer at your Mom’s house…….platform shoes right at the door to slip on when you do run out to 7-11 to pick up your take out supper (You get 10% off cause your job is to make sure the coffee is fresh at 7-11 on your graveyard shift ), cell phone with a dead battery because nobody calls you anyways, and your 1974 Gremlin with rusty wheel rims waiting in the driveway for “daddy” to take it for a spin. Yep – LOSER.

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How do I know tickets are 5 bucks each at Thrashers games? Because I paid for the damn ticket myself. Any city anywhere that you can get lower bowl tickets from SCALPERS for FIVE BUCKS does not deserve a team. And I paid 5 bucks a ticket for a game in Phoenix – but City Council isn’t as stupid in Atlanta as they are in Phoenix. YOu will never EVER get a ticket for five bucks to a Winnipeg game.

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How about a deal to keep them in Atlanta and build an arena in the northern suburbs…..the place would be close to a sell out for every game. Winnepeg brings nothing new to the table…Atlanta on the other hand is a growing market. As the years go by and more people move here from northern states the interest is going to grow. Leaving Atlanta is just plain dumb. You think hockey is just going to walk into the south and be popular all at once?? This is a process. You have to build this from the ground up…starting at the youth level. This is in the area of the country where most people care about college football and college football only. You put a competitive product on the ice for a few years and see what kind of growth you can get in this area. It would be tremendous. This is long term…this is growth of the sport. You want a team in Winnepeg, use an expansion franchise..but moving it out of a new growth opportunity market is an epic fail by the leadership of hockey.

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@philalamo

Ignorance is bliss, isn’t it?
This deal has been completed for months now.
There’s nothing that even *remotely* resembles hockey equipment remaining in Philips and the entire Blue Crew has been re-assigned to the Varsity.

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2 new tweets from Bob McKenzie from 1 minute ago:

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WPG lawyers signed off on their end. ATL lawyers doing their due diligence now. Soon as they sign off, deal is done, pending board approval.

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If ATL lawyers sign off today, announcement tomorrow morning. If ATL lawyers don’t sign off today, drags out another day or two.

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Word out of the peg as of this morning are of rumbles that all is not going well in negotiations with ASG. This may be due to the potential of a new offer made by a local individual/contingent. Does not look good for anything getting done any time soon.

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The thrashers are comparable to a dumpster fire!

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[...] second group (referred to only as a “filmmaker” who might be a season ticket holder) showed some interest in keeping the Thrashers in Atlanta. That possible new suitor stepped forward on Thursday, according to Chris Vivlamore. Here is what [...]

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G52PIM228

I Like how you call us loserpeg lmao. Look at where it is coming from. Winniopeg rocks!!! a place you have probably never been to. Ive been to Atlanta and it’s a sh## Hole. run down. So before you come on here about the great white north where us Canadians live breath and die for hockey. Might i add support a nhl team with only half the population as ATL. If you did a little reaserch Winnipeg lawyers have signed off on all the deals on TNSE side. All that is left is for ASG to get there lawyers to sign off. Which i might add there doing that today. Worken through the holiday how nice. Board of goveners to approve the deal and wait to seee how many season tickets holders there will be. You guys had 200 people show up for a last “ditch effort to keep your lonly thrashers” Winnipeg will have i can count on it 30 to 40 THOUSAND people on Poratge and main when the Annoucment is made. So before you trash us look where its coming from. Nobodys. When we lost the jets due to the canadian dollar we had thousands show up in the rally. I was 10 at the time. Ive never seen people so upset. Like i said we live breath hockey. hockey is a canadian Game. We have proven that over many of years. So keep your Thrasher tash talks to your self. Cause it will get you no where. Maybe you showed do another rally maybe this time you will get 205 people. Ill even come wearing my Jets Jersey. TNSE all the way. BYE BYE ATLANTA THRASHERS> WELCOME TO THE TRUE NORTH. WHERE YOU WILL HAVE 17000 PEOPLE EVERY NIGHT CHANTING. WIN OR LOSE US “CANADIANS OF WINNIPEG WILL BE THERE FOR YOUR SUPPORT. WELCOME BOYS.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

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What a piece of work you are. I can just picture you sitting in front of your television, eyes glazed over, gun in your lap, as you watch NASCAR.. cars going round and round and round and round. Now THAT’s humiliating.

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Some people here are really cute.

- no media market: Maybe
- lack an NHL size arena: A bit smallish yes.
- prospect of killing a top ten media market: Not worth much when folks don’t watch. Might as well expand to Mexico City, Cairo or Tokio.
- This relocation will never be approved: You also believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny?

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TSN and sportsnet both have articles up claiming its a done deal with aanouncment tommorow Its over Give it up Atlanta.some of you sound more dillusional than leaf nation when they opened the season with five wins.

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pegcityguy, which is the best forum or blog to follow the team in the future?

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Hockey fans anxious for word that the NHL is returning to Winnipeg could soon get good news.

CBC News has been told by True North Sports and Entertainment to have technical people ready to set up possibly late Monday for something early Tuesday.

True North has been in negotiations with Atlanta Spirit, the owners of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers, to move the franchise to Winnipeg. But until now neither organization has hinted a deal was close.

The latest from #gojetsgo
Join the conversation Paul Jordan, chief operating officer at The Forks, told CBC News he has been told to have the popular meeting place ready for a party on Tuesday.

Jordan said he’ll be given four hours official notice but he is already getting everything ready, trying to prepare for something spontaneous.

“That’s exactly what we’re dealing with. So we’ve got talent on hold, we’ve got you know, the stage on hold, we’ve got television screens on hold, and we’ve got DJs on hold. We’ll put something together,” he said.

The buzz on the Twitter universe Monday reflected the speculation that a formal announcement was near, with some pinpointing the time as 10 a.m. CT on Tuesday.

As well, two of Canada’s largest sports networks — TSN and Sportsnet — reported the deal is as good as done.

“The Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg situation has narrowed to a point where it’s quite possible there could be an announcement as early as Tuesday,” stated TSN.

“Lawyers on the Winnipeg side have signed off on the deal and the Atlanta legal team is doing their due diligence today. If they sign off on the deal, the sale will go through, pending league approval.

“If there is no announcement Tuesday, the next likely target would be Thursday.”

‘We’ve got talent on hold, we’ve got you know, the stage on hold, we’ve got television screens on hold, and we’ve got DJs on hold.’

—Paul Jordan, COO at The ForksThe report on Sportsnet.ca was nearly identical, stating: “A formal announcement will likely be made on Tuesday that the Atlanta Thrashers are moving to Winnipeg.”

Tuesday has been cited as an ideal day because it comes just before the puck drops for the start of the Stanley Cup final series between Vancouver and Boston.

Hundreds of hockey fans converged at Winnipeg’s famed downtown intersection of Portage and Main on May 19 after the Globe and Mail initially reported an agreement had been struck.

Since then, speculation has been rampant as to when an announcement might come and it reached a point last week where feverish fans reported seeing NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in the city.

But every sudden spike in expectation has been followed by an equally sudden silence.

Until now

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this is something like the 4th or 5th time in the last 3 weeks “it’s been a done deal”.

Matt Pearl, with WXIA, has been in contact with Daly who says no deal. As have people from TSNE.

The press has jumped over ANY rumor they get, to drum up stories. Stories = readers/viewers. Which, in turn, = ad revenue. They don’t care one whit about inflaming the passions of fans on either side, to them it’s just cold, hard cash.

So … whatever you hear in the press … until you hear in from the NHL itself (and by that, I mean Daly or Bettman, not the NHL.com newswire), I wouldn’t go celebrate in the streets.

In either city (moved or not).

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@ G52PIM228 – What does PIM stand for?
P…lease….
I…live with my
M…other???

I think she must have taken your computer privledges away. Likely read some of your “saucy” comments and sent you to your room.

Truth is, this is beginning to take on a life of it’s own, and you are not going to like the outcome. So, best stay in your little hovel, under your bed, and have Mommy bring you snacks from time to time. The sun will come up again….don’t worry.

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Again, as noted above — don’t celebrate until you hear it from Bettman or Daly.

New Tucker article : http://bit.ly/kCrVnR

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I think ASG is afraid to sign this deal with a much larger portion of their business still left here in Atlanta (ie the Hawks and Philips Arena events) EVERYONE knows that it would entirely be ASG’s fault if the Thrashers left town because their remaining Atlanta businesses would suffer dearly. They may be completely ignorant about hockey but not about business. Why else havn’t they signed the documents? They obviously leaked the story originally to try to get someone to buy the team and keep it here sooner rather than later.

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Then it’s the same exact thing as the last two weeks.

This is the third time major press have stated “an announcement is due tomorrow”.

Hasn’t yet, to date, happened. It MAY happen tomorrow, or not.

Point is, until you hear it directly from the parties involved that a deal is reached …

And *THEN* directly from the NHL Commissioner’s Office that the deal is *approved* …

Until BOTH those items occur, there is NO DEAL.

Now mind you … this’ll probably send the Winnipeg folks dancing in the streets yet again.

But until it’s official by the NHL, there is no deal, and it would really suck for them to go dancing in the streets and have the rug pulled out yet again.

Go read the NHL constitution and bylaws — this is a very long, drawn out, complicated process. It is NOT, as some have stated, a “rubber stamp”.

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Who cares??? We’re BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

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This will be the heading @ ESPN and TSN (Canada).

Atlanta Thrashers sold to the True North. Team will be relocated to Winnipeg Manitoba. As the first order of business Team President Don Waddell and GM Rick Dudley have been removed of their duties to be replaced by the The Manitoba Moose Mascot Moosy and our Stick boy. See ya Atlanta, last one out shut off the lights please.

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Two words: ATLANTA FLAMES.

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if it is a hockey reference PIM is Penalties In Minutes

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My new home

http://webcam.theforks.com/market-tower.cfm

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@jimcee … KC give me a break they will only get the Blues if noone comes forward and buys them. I could see Seatle Portland or Spokane land an NHL team before KC also Hartford would get consideration before KC.

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Hartford would be GREAT! Bring back the WHALERS!

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No, the Jets won’t be back until the NFL lockout is over.

Silly Canadians…

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It’s 90-some degrees in ATL…the ice is a-meltin’…

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IF, and I mean IF, Atlanta wants to be a hockey city, there needs to be an effort to somehow make hockey what baseball is, what basketball is, what football is here. The city and outside the city needs to bring ice rinks into fruition. No, we aren’t going to find ice outside EVEN in Winter. Atlanta needs to do its part in order to make hockey accessible, and it has failed gracefully in my opinion. ATLANTA, do what is needed to make hockey a sport HERE!

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@ Getthepuckouttahere

“You’re a yes man for the ASG and you wonder why no one here”

Say whah??? Speak proper English errr maybe proper Winnipegian at that!

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G52 snow monkey freak,

GO AWAY. WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE, YOU’RE OBNOXIOUS AND IRRELEVANT.
GO BE WEIRD ON THE COYOTE BOARDS WHERE YOU BELONG.
YOUR COMMENTS ARE GENERALLY POINTLESS AND UNWANTED.

REPEAT: YOU ARE UNWANTED HERE. AND TAKE YOUR “STALKERS” WITH YOU ON YOUR WAY TO THE ASYLUM.

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This is it in a nut shell…Atlanta Flames left because of the owner wanting to move. Atlanta Thrashers are moving because the owners never wanting them in the first place.
I hope the Winnapeg (insert name) do well with the core players that have signed. I will check box scores and standings.
I hope we get a team back one day with one owner that cares and Don Wadell finds employment elsewhere. I apologize for the rude insensitive remarks made by all. The stuff that has been spewed on these blogs in inexcusible. God Bless All.

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I am bored with this discussion…everyday Canada media reports it’s done..everyday they premature ejaculate

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G52, do you not question yourself as to why you have so much time to be on here trashing not only Winnipeg (of which you know nothing about) but now also Atlanta too? Really man, go get a life, get a girlfriend, i dont care, just please shut the F up.

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I cant wait to watch Evander Kane score 40 goals in winnipeg next year.

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Brian little passes to kane he shoots he scores the winnipeg fans go wild

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..oh and the news is that an announcement is possible but possibly not. As always, thanks for nothing! For the previous weeks worth of articles it has been maybe or maybe not. We get it, Viv. It might happen, it might not. I’m guessing tomorrow the Thrashers will either be moving or they won’t. Hire me AJC, I just wrote the article for you.

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If the team does go to Winnipeg at least they will take Don Waddell with them.

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Just report G52PIM228 and get him banned. He has been banned from every web site he has ever gone on, except for http://www.azcentral.com/ but that’s because he’s the only one on there. He actually posts and responds to himself.

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A memo to the AJC:
Block the IP address for this G52 character, or start losing blog/forum readers. I’m sure your advertisers would be interested. The conversation on this forum is generally interesting, but this clown is reducing viewership. I will stop visiting your blogs and forums unless AJC confirms within 12 hours that G52 has been banned. I’m one individual, but it will be curious to see how many “Ditto Qwerty”‘ posts we get.

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Hey G52 you raging homosexual. Why don’t you come to Winnipeg in the winter and catch a Jets game so you can see how real hockey fans embrace their team? If you do come, you can stay at the Merchants Hotel on Selkirk Avenue. They have a beer store attached. Feel free to pick up a 6 pack and walk to the game. I’m sure you will be fine. Go Jets Go!!!!!!!!!

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ditto qwerty. G52 is a freaker.

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OK Jets fans you win and I’m a big fag!:(

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Correct – no reasonable purchaser would want to buy this franchise. ASG has left it in a mess.

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Maybe one day I will find someone who will share my love for Justin Bieber, dairy cows, and hairy buttcracks..

SIGH..

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Just a thought…..I think G52 is a woman

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A letter to the Thrasher Fans posted on my website – Yougabsports.com.
Read it and enjoy…it puts in perspective what Thrasher fans are…dreamers!!!!

http://yougabsports.com/pt/A-Letter-To-Thrasher-Fans/blog.htm

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No Bbbb…. I own a website with 2 others, that’s been around now for 4 years. Our stories are picked up by Sporting News, Chicago Sun-Times and most of us are former writers for TSN. What I sense is you got a bit of a nerve touched and now it irks you. Most of my co-writer’s, some of us from Emerson College, other’s from Syracuse, and a lot from the major cities see Atlanta and pity you. I’m from Boston, you know, were the Bruins are heading to the Cup, unlike the Thrashers who are moving (I”ve actualy got a cup older than this franchise)
What is it you have, a bunch of people who sit here and cry and speculate that there will be some 11th hour herics, which won’t happen. But you will put all your fate in a blogger who at best will probaby either be job hunting or he can apply to empty our trash barrels at our home offices in Manhattan!!! You know where that is right?

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Sorry to disappoint you I’m living here in Hotanta, but I’ from Boston…YEA a real sport city unlike Atlanta!!!!

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The Forks in Wpg. is preparing for the party.

Phoenix to Quebec City next year. Just a matter of time

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OMG! Ignorant I swear half of the comments I am reading you people have no clue what you are talking about! YOu really know nothing about winnipeg. Some of the BEST NHL players came from Canada not to mention WINNIPEG also. We lost a team just like Atlanta is now and We know how crappy it feels but It happens and the fact that you all can put down winnipeg when probably half of you have never been here makes me laugh. From what I have heard half the Thrashers actually are looking forward to playing here so just you all watch and see what a small city (according to one of you only good for a truckstop) does for this team and the thousands of support they will be getting when the announcement is made this week, and from then on.

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the fact that you all can put down winnipeg when probably half of you have never been here makes me laugh.

Well, since you and your fellow no-class trolls are pretty much the most visible criteria that we in Atlanta have to go by then it would stand to reason that Winnipeg is inhabited by a bunch of no-class loser yokel trolls like yourself.

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TheAntiMe said: “Well, since you and your fellow no-class trolls are pretty much the most visible criteria that we in Atlanta have to go by then it would stand to reason that Winnipeg is inhabited by a bunch of no-class loser yokel trolls like yourself.”

To this, I say that you have just proven yourself a massive hypocrite. Listen to yourself, man, and stop making the people of Atlanta sound like idiots.

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TheAntiMe… I’m from Atlanta.
And your attitude is embarrassing my city.
In calling the people of Winnipeg jerkoffs and classless and “the anus of Canada” all you are doing is making the people of Atlanta sound like jerkoffs and classless.
Please, for the sake of the impression you are giving of our city, stop talking.
Thank you.

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Talk about talking in circles and saying nothing. LOL. Canada media full of hacks.

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tue, May 31 – 4:54 AM
WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg NHL watch continues with reports that the Atlanta Thrashers’ sale could be complete this week, possibly as early as today.

The Thrashers’ owners are in negotiations with True North Sports and Entertainment, which wants to move the team to Winnipeg.

While reports suggested the news might come sooner rather than later, those in the know chose their words carefully Monday afternoon.

True North spokesman Scott Brown told The Canadian Press that “no press conference has been scheduled.”

And NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in an email that “there is nothing done as of now.”

The Stanley Cup final between Boston and Vancouver begins Wednesday. The NHL would likely prefer the Thrashers’ sale is announced on a day there is no hockey.

Still, Daly told The Associated Press on Monday there is no strict rule against releasing big news during the final.

Daly said he couldn’t say if the sale could be announced as soon as today, but “it’s certainly possible something will be finalized this week.”

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TheAntiMe… I’m from Atlanta.
And your attitude is embarrassing my city.

Oh really, Sam? Anyone who looks at the context of your previous post can easily see that not only are you a no-class troll but are also a total prevaricator.

Way to represent Winnipeg, bud. I have nothing at all against Canada so I won’t blame them for their hemorrhoids such as yourself. Just go back to your Winnipeg site and leave us the hell alone.

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[...] Thrashers: Another possible buyer for the Thrashers? Yeah, it’s a guy with a fake-looking mustache calling himself Tim [...]

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Atlanta = Excellent City TheAntiMe = Monkey Spunk G52 = Delusional Gongdale resident. Too bad it was not the Yotes moving then Mr. or Miss G52 would not be so smug. Hey little fellar got a news flash for you, next year when the NHL comes with hand out looking for your dumb azz mayor to cover their loss’s again, and she does that will suit the NHL just fine. They need another 2 years from now for Quebec to finish an arena and then the Yotes are toast. Glendale is hands down the clown town of the NHL. Gee lets just rent the team since no one is stupid enough to throw in their own money. Yotes = Complete financial disaster Atlanta fans deserved much better no doubt!!

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Finally new owners.

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@G52PIM228 – is that the number of games and penalty minutes you got in peewee?

Here’s a story for ya…

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=367433

True North Sports and Entertainment has called a news conference for Noon et/11am ct today where they are expected to address their negotiations with Atlanta Spirit Group on the sale and relocation of the Thrashers to Winnipeg.

The Atlanta Thrashers-to-Winnipeg situation has been an ongoing negotiation and the legal teams involved with True North, the Atlanta Spirit and the National Hockey League spent Monday night and early Tuesday morning combing over what should be the framework of an agreement.

Lawyers on the Winnipeg side signed off on the deal on Monday afternoon and the Atlanta legal team was left to do their due diligence. Once they sign off on the deal, the sale will go through pending league approval.

Once an agreement has been reached, True North is expected to launch a season ticket drive.

Details to follow.

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Press conference in Winnipeg to announce Thrashers sale at 12 pm ET

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/

Looks like all that’s left is the crying..that makes 2 teams that left the home of fried chicken and watermelon

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Enjoy the Thrashers, Winnipeg. Congratulations on getting another opportunity.

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It’s over. I curse the ASG, Canada and the NHL.

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This Waddell guy, he just can’t help himself can he?

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@PMC

Are you referring to the “other suitor” because I am sure we were all wondering the same thing? Was this all an effort for them to be able to say that they REALLY DID exhaust everything locally before the announcement that he had to know was coming today?

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Bye Thrashers. Its a little painful, but glad its over.
We will watch you on the tube.

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15 years ago when the Jets left I lost interest in the NHL..now today I’m a fan again…can hardly wait for next season

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