On May 31, 2011, the Atlanta Thrashers ceased to exist forever. With that, Atlanta became the first city ever in NHL history to lose two teams in 31 years.
At least people go to the Coyotes' games, as rubbish as they are. Nobody goes to Florida Panthers games. They're playing in an empty arena, while there are other cities that would *love* to have an NHL team.
The Die-yotes will be in the Central division the moment the new team in Seattle begins playing. The stage is set for that money-losing franchise to be relocated to Houston.
The Coyotes made a mistake by leaving downtown Phoenix for suburban Glendale. Had they stuck around and see Talking Stick Arena renovated to accommodate hockey, they Coyotes would've had more money.
I respectfully disagree. With stable ownership, a team could have flourished in Atlanta. Atlanta enjoyed the highest attendance numbers of any expansion team in history in its inaugural year, but years of poor ownership killed the franchise.
i agree. the Ladd and Byfulgien aquisitions weren`t too little, they were just too late. the Thrashers showed real promise with these two, but the fans didn`t care.
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Rick Dudley showed real promise as a GM with his acquisition of Ladd and Byfuglien. It's a shame he didn't have more time to prove his worth. Atlanta Spirit simply didn't want the team. Sad day for me.
@Multi4335 Im looking forward to the new arena (I wonder what the capcity will be). 2015 seems like a life time away, but Quebec City will get a team soon and the good ol battle for Quebec will be on. I miss those days. Hopefully Canada will get a cup soon too :)
the Thrashers did have some fans, but hockey in Atlanta wasn`t a good mix. football and baseball (and basketball for that matter) are gaining popularity in Atlanta. after losing Dany Heatly, the Thrashers ended up dealing with an empty building. i knew a few Thrashers fans, but they lost interest because of the team losing so much. they only made the playoffs once, in 2007. they lost in the first round. Atlanta just wasn`t the city for hockey.
i think its better that thrashers go to winnipeg cause ice hockey is more famous in canada i mean ya more than 10,000 people came. in atlanta its more about basketball and football and baseball. a lot of thrashers fan like myself are going to miss the fights and minimum amount of hockey actually played( just a little joke)
@MrPajamaLama if the fomer thrashers team couldnt make it how will switching to a new city make them a 1000x better. they will make it but not this year
But Bettman was so determined to not admit failure in Arizona, he allowed the city of Glendale to subsidize the team for another year on the backs of taxpayer money. And 7 years onward, and the financial situation is still a joke in Arizona. Losing $20 million a year and a team playing in a half-empty arena. And Bettman is still stubbornly "committed to hockey in Arizona. Any sane business man will tell you that if you have never turned a profit on an investment after a few years, it's time cut your losses. The Coyotes have never turned a profit since moving to Arizona in 1996. That's 20+ years of being in the red. It's just not financially justifiable to keep losing that much money over such a long period. And who has to subsidize those losses? The teams that are profitable.
@@pomerlain8924 Don't forget that, at the time, the NHL owned the Coyotes. The League purchased the team out of bankruptcy. The Thrashers, OTOH, were not in bankruptcy and their owners were desperate to unload the team.
@@pomerlain8924 And Gila River Arena is kicking the Coyotes out after this season. That team should’ve never moved from Winnipeg. From the country where hockey was invented to a DESERT. The Coyotes should move to Houston or Quebec City. The Sabres should also move. They’ve had less than 10,000 fans at every single home game this year. And less than 10,000 by A LOT.
well, that`s my point. poor management is a reason Atlanta sports teams in general aren`t that good. hockey in Atlanta can still flourish, but it would take new management that actually knew what they were doing, a good fanbase, and great players. the Thrashers were a promising team, but they just couldn`t get the players neccessary to compete. the management did suck (i agree on that) because they only made a few good deals, while the rest were draft busts or amateurs who were not NHL caliber.
Atlanta had opportunities and it's time for Savannah to take the notice of the NHL by selling out our arena every night and heck the NHL just may return back to Georgia. It won't be Atlanta but Savannah getting an ECHL team and not having a professional team since the Savannah Sand Gnats left and heck it's either getting drunk on River Street, watching watered down baseball of the Savannah Bananas, going ghost hunting, etcetera. There's a reason why it was named the EnMarket Arena because it will grab the NHL's attention so I'm supporting this new hockey team yet to be named by going to their home games almost every chance I get. We have a melting pot in Savannah where hockey can thrive and hell the Stanley Cup might be drenched with a lot of Wet Willie's alcohol, jello shots and all if we Savannahians and the whole state of Georgia including Atlanta celebrate a Stanley Cup Finals win in the State of Georgia. Savannah with right ownership from somebody who lived near Savannah all of his or her life before becoming an owner, he or she will do everything there is in the book to bring the Stanley Cup to Savannah.
Baseball in Montreal could work again and hockey could still work in Atlanta. The Thrashers would most likely be around today if the ownership group didn’t prioritize the Atlanta Hawks (NBA) and neglect their hockey team.
that guy on youtube Could it? The City of Montreal didn’t give a shit about the Expos(Judging from what the Expos was drawing their final years). Why do think they moved to Washington in 2005? Thank God that Asshole Bud Selig didn’t erase the Expos(And the Minnesota Twins) from Major League Baseball when he said that “Baseball was under contraction”. I guarantee you, had Selig been successful in wiping out Montreal and Minnesota from Major League Baseball, Fans Everywhere would be making life A Living Hell for Bud Selig’s Milwaukee Brewers!
@maidenjapan66 Haha there were 75,000 people in Quebec and it wasn't even an annoucement! Winnipeg will do well in the NHL, but Quebec is a better hockey market.
Ummm, no. The waitlist for tickets is a mile long, and it took a state of emergency winter storm early this season to finally break the Jets 8+ year sellout streak at 332.
Move the "Jets" back home to Atlanta where they belong and rename them the Thrashers. It is absurd that that "little town" Winnipeg was able to allow a major league team over a metro area nearly 8 times its size.
@@BM_2002 Any place can be a hockey market, as Raleigh and Tampa Bay prove. Just because you live in a place that has extremely cold winters with lots of snow doesn't mean that others who live in warmer climates cannot appreciate the sport of hockey.
On May 31, 2011, the Atlanta Thrashers ceased to exist forever. With that, Atlanta became the first city ever in NHL history to lose two teams in 31 years.
it makes me question why Phoenix still has a team.
They'll be gone by the 2020s
LEGO MAN 5000 Florida first
At least people go to the Coyotes' games, as rubbish as they are.
Nobody goes to Florida Panthers games. They're playing in an empty arena, while there are other cities that would *love* to have an NHL team.
The Die-yotes will be in the Central division the moment the new team in Seattle begins playing.
The stage is set for that money-losing franchise to be relocated to Houston.
The Coyotes made a mistake by leaving downtown Phoenix for suburban Glendale.
Had they stuck around and see Talking Stick Arena renovated to accommodate hockey, they Coyotes would've had more money.
Good luck jets. from ATL
Someday that's gonna happen in Québec
Serge Iblocka🏀 soon
Except it won’t be in English
Montreal canadiens
I respectfully disagree. With stable ownership, a team could have flourished in Atlanta. Atlanta enjoyed the highest attendance numbers of any expansion team in history in its inaugural year, but years of poor ownership killed the franchise.
Atlanta Spirit was probably the worst ownership group in the NHL AND NBA because they also owned the Hawks.
i agree. the Ladd and Byfulgien aquisitions weren`t too little, they were just too late. the Thrashers showed real promise with these two, but the fans didn`t care.
...congrats Winnipeg! :)
@maidenjapan66 Yep, and only 200 went to the save the Thrashers rally.
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I was waiting for them to announce the winnipeg jets and the crowd would go crazy.. Guess not..
Rick Dudley showed real promise as a GM with his acquisition of Ladd and Byfuglien. It's a shame he didn't have more time to prove his worth. Atlanta Spirit simply didn't want the team. Sad day for me.
almost as soon as he opened his mouth everyone went "WHOO!" XD
@DJOmnimaga well you always have to set your goals high
Nobody cares about the coyotes if they moved I don’t think that to many people will be that upset
they moved lol
Yeah that's definitely understandable. Some cities make great hockey cities, others just dont at all.
I'm a Vancouverite, and I cried when the Jets came back
@Multi4335 Im looking forward to the new arena (I wonder what the capcity will be). 2015 seems like a life time away, but Quebec City will get a team soon and the good ol battle for Quebec will be on. I miss those days. Hopefully Canada will get a cup soon too :)
No second Quebec team yet and no Canada cup yet unfortunately
@@gobirds4133 sadly
@orion584 we will
love the selanne jersey...wow true fans right there
the Thrashers did have some fans, but hockey in Atlanta wasn`t a good mix. football and baseball (and basketball for that matter) are gaining popularity in Atlanta. after losing Dany Heatly, the Thrashers ended up dealing with an empty building. i knew a few Thrashers fans, but they lost interest because of the team losing so much. they only made the playoffs once, in 2007. they lost in the first round. Atlanta just wasn`t the city for hockey.
Nonsense.
@senseit2007 THAT: I could believe!
@TheDigiDestined16 The Thrashers had fans?
@1234DRLJAN Yes it should. Name another team that should have gone?
@TheCrowneJewel At least they're still playing Hockey there. But they won't be playing in Atlanta anymore!
i think its better that thrashers go to winnipeg cause ice hockey is more famous in canada i mean ya more than 10,000 people came. in atlanta its more about basketball and football and baseball.
a lot of thrashers fan like myself are going to miss the fights and minimum amount of hockey actually played( just a little joke)
how many people were out on the streets just for a annoucement (ten thousand maybe), hockey will do very good in the peg.
@MrPajamaLama
if the fomer thrashers team couldnt make it how will switching to a new city make them a 1000x better.
they will make it but not this year
@TheDigiDestined16 Now 8. That's their whole fanbase :o)
I would have moved the coyotes before I’d move the thrashers
But Bettman was so determined to not admit failure in Arizona, he allowed the city of Glendale to subsidize the team for another year on the backs of taxpayer money. And 7 years onward, and the financial situation is still a joke in Arizona. Losing $20 million a year and a team playing in a half-empty arena. And Bettman is still stubbornly "committed to hockey in Arizona.
Any sane business man will tell you that if you have never turned a profit on an investment after a few years, it's time cut your losses. The Coyotes have never turned a profit since moving to Arizona in 1996. That's 20+ years of being in the red. It's just not financially justifiable to keep losing that much money over such a long period. And who has to subsidize those losses? The teams that are profitable.
@@pomerlain8924 Don't forget that, at the time, the NHL owned the Coyotes. The League purchased the team out of bankruptcy.
The Thrashers, OTOH, were not in bankruptcy and their owners were desperate to unload the team.
@@pomerlain8924 And Gila River Arena is kicking the Coyotes out after this season. That team should’ve never moved from Winnipeg. From the country where hockey was invented to a DESERT. The Coyotes should move to Houston or Quebec City. The Sabres should also move. They’ve had less than 10,000 fans at every single home game this year. And less than 10,000 by A LOT.
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@Jiltedin2007 how about hockey in phoenix!
@senseit2007 Cant wait for this to happen in Hamilton(It will never happen) GOOD LUCK QUEBEC!
well, that`s my point. poor management is a reason Atlanta sports teams in general aren`t that good. hockey in Atlanta can still flourish, but it would take new management that actually knew what they were doing, a good fanbase, and great players. the Thrashers were a promising team, but they just couldn`t get the players neccessary to compete. the management did suck (i agree on that) because they only made a few good deals, while the rest were draft busts or amateurs who were not NHL caliber.
Atlanta had opportunities and it's time for Savannah to take the notice of the NHL by selling out our arena every night and heck the NHL just may return back to Georgia. It won't be Atlanta but Savannah getting an ECHL team and not having a professional team since the Savannah Sand Gnats left and heck it's either getting drunk on River Street, watching watered down baseball of the Savannah Bananas, going ghost hunting, etcetera. There's a reason why it was named the EnMarket Arena because it will grab the NHL's attention so I'm supporting this new hockey team yet to be named by going to their home games almost every chance I get.
We have a melting pot in Savannah where hockey can thrive and hell the Stanley Cup might be drenched with a lot of Wet Willie's alcohol, jello shots and all if we Savannahians and the whole state of Georgia including Atlanta celebrate a Stanley Cup Finals win in the State of Georgia.
Savannah with right ownership from somebody who lived near Savannah all of his or her life before becoming an owner, he or she will do everything there is in the book to bring the Stanley Cup to Savannah.
I don't know what's worse, Hockey in Atlanta, or Baseball in Montreal.
Hockey in Atlanta
Baseball in Montreal could work again and hockey could still work in Atlanta. The Thrashers would most likely be around today if the ownership group didn’t prioritize the Atlanta Hawks (NBA) and neglect their hockey team.
that guy on youtube
Could it? The City of Montreal didn’t give a shit about the Expos(Judging from what the Expos was drawing their final years). Why do think they moved to Washington in 2005? Thank God that Asshole Bud Selig didn’t erase the Expos(And the Minnesota Twins) from Major League Baseball when he said that “Baseball was under contraction”. I guarantee you, had Selig been successful in wiping out Montreal and Minnesota from Major League Baseball, Fans Everywhere would be making life A Living Hell for Bud Selig’s Milwaukee Brewers!
This hurts
Yep
@maidenjapan66 Haha there were 75,000 people in Quebec and it wasn't even an annoucement! Winnipeg will do well in the NHL, but Quebec is a better hockey market.
now 8 Thrasher fans..
@coyotes3344 And hockey fans down there complain that we stole their team -_-
Definitely. I mean, I understand wanting to expand hockey to new areas, but if the fans arent going to even support a team, why give them a team?
Josh Bolden pretty good fan base now
Support was always there.
You would probably take this comment back now
dats not the corner of portage and main, just saying :-)
DirtyolBrizz it basically is lol like a 20 second walk ? Lmao
@1234DRLJAN coyotes are next lol.
GO JETS GO
Losing sucks, anyway you spin it just ask Columbus!
LETS GO JETS
GO SENS GO!
RIGHT to the basement in the sewer
I think the "Honeymoon" will be over someday, years of losing will result in some empty seats.
Ummm, no. The waitlist for tickets is a mile long, and it took a state of emergency winter storm early this season to finally break the Jets 8+ year sellout streak at 332.
Move the "Jets" back home to Atlanta where they belong and rename them the Thrashers. It is absurd that that "little town" Winnipeg was able to allow a major league team over a metro area nearly 8 times its size.
😂😂😂
Unlike Atlanta, Winnipeg is actually a hockey market.
@@BM_2002 Any place can be a hockey market, as Raleigh and Tampa Bay prove. Just because you live in a place that has extremely cold winters with lots of snow doesn't mean that others who live in warmer climates cannot appreciate the sport of hockey.
@willp.8120 Oh please the only time Carolina and TB get good crowds is when they're winning
@@BM_2002 They were numbers 2 and 3 in attendance last season. That's good, way above Winnipeg (Thrashers).
i know. it`s a waste of money.