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WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
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WOOHOO Winnipeg just bought an NHL team, even though I no longer live there, I grew up watching the Jets play, so its cool to see them back. Atlanta sucks for franchises haha.....well except for NFL.
GO JETS!
Yes, I know hippie American's don't like hockey, but I had to announce the exciting news anyways!!!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/05/31/sp-nhl-winnipeg.html

My dad owns a box with another company, so I can sit in a corporate box and look down at the peasants while I bask in the glory of one of the most violent organized sport.
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#14540727 - 05/31/11 01:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice to check the sports form for my thread 
Nah jking...so since it looks like your the only other person who gives a shit, what do you think? Jets or new name?
Will they be placed in the Eastern or Western conference, and if the Western, who is gonna move to the East? New Divisions maybe?
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They'll be in the same division as Atlanta for the upcoming season because they don't have enough time to organize the switch, then they'll probably go into the northwest division. It'll be funny being in the South-East division, lots of flying and going from incredibly cold to incredibly hot over and over.

As for the name, I think they should go with the Jets, everyone loved the name and all the classic jerseys everyone's wearing. I'd prefer the Jets but if they call them the Moose I can live with it. I think they want to sell the Moose to Thunderbay or the east coast, but can't for another year. So both teams will play in the arena for a year, or at least that's what I read a few weeks ago.
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#14540867 - 05/31/11 02:21 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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The moose..Manitoba Moose are awesome, favorite team name 
I think they should have moved them to Manitoba, and been called the Manitoba Mammoths (idk if there's any team named that, just something catchy I came up with but it sounds legit)
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#14540926 - 05/31/11 02:30 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Winnipeg is a frozen shithole.
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Winnipeg is in the province of Manitoba. (Maybe I read that wrong)
The Moose we're always pretty sweet, always got far into the playoffs. They're Canucks farm team and got guys like Bieksa and the backup goalie Shnieder or whatever.
Calling it a Manitoba team might help, since there is a smaller city called Brandon and they'd be bigger fans if it was a province wide team. But man, there's a lot of support for the name Jets.
They're going to upgrade the new arena too to add more seating, even though its only about 10 years old it's short about 1000 seats to be NHL worthy. I always wondered why they didn't make it a little bit bigger to attract the NHL. The football stadium is the same deal, its cold as fuck but they didn't bother buying a stadium with a dome, its only partially domed around the sides to cover the fans not the field.
Anyways, I'm glad they're back. We we're all incredibly disappointed when they left. It was hard to keep a team that barely made the playoffs though. They were doomed from the start, because when they joined the NHL their super team from the WHL was broken up and the players left for different teams except for bobby hull and a few others.
Now the new co-owner, Thompson, is one of the richest people in the world, and he said he won't mind losing money. He just wants the Jets back. Chipman too, he owns most of the car dealerships in town, so he owes the city. Chipman made it happen too, by purchasing a new arena downtown, and bringing a very popular Moose team to town. Moose had one of the highest fan bases in the AHL too, so it shouldn't be that hard to dish out an extra 50 bucks for NHL tix.
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Penguarky Tunguin said: Winnipeg is a frozen shithole.
Winnipeg has a huge tokefest outside the legislature building every year haha...
The winters are long and cold, but the summers rock and the beaches rule. Some of the nicest fresh water beaches, and the fishing is great too. I like Winnipeg and Manitoba. Its just gets a bad rap because it gets very cold sometimes in the winter. But that just makes for better outdoor skating, once you get skating you warm up fast. There's an outdoor rink every few blocks, its such a crazy hockey town.
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Don't forget the flooding,hail storm,twisters,ticks and mosquitos...its a shithole...the armpit of Canada
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#14541070 - 05/31/11 02:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I love tonsil hockey, especially in frigid temps.
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steelmonkey said: Don't forget the flooding,hail storm,twisters,ticks and mosquitos...its a shithole...the armpit of Canada
Quiet you! Toss on some 95% deet that melts plastic but deters ticks and mosquitos, drive on the highway in hail to get a new paint job, twisters are fun and not as intense as those US ones, and the flooding is fun and gets the whole community involved.

If Winnipeg is the armpit, Toronto is the asshole of Canada.
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#14541231 - 05/31/11 03:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Lol no argument there,I lived in Steinbach for a couple years...not fun..and you couldn't pay me enough to live in TO.I'm glad the Jets came back,not that I was a huge fan but I'll support them because there a Canadien team
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: steelmonkey]
#14541256 - 05/31/11 03:33 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Steinbach is the automotive city! Man I saw that Steinbach commercial for 10 years and it never changed. It's forever stuck in my head.
The cold isn't that bad anymore, with remote car starters and heated seats n shit these days. It's a little long, but if you go on holidays in Jan or Feb it makes it a little more bearable.
I live on the BC coast now, so I brag to my family non stop about how sweet it is here, but I still miss the Peg. The people are super friendly, the nightlife is wild, and even though the summer is short, people really take advantage of it with folkfest and lake winnipeg and shit.
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BC is awesome I lived in Vancouver and Victoria,you gotta be going for those Canucks tomorrow night
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They sold out instantly I may go watch the big screen outside the arena though.
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Lol dude I'll look for you hold up a big Shroomery sign
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Will they be named the Jets again? Should be called the Whalers.
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Why the Whalers?the ocean is like two thousand miles away
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#14541395 - 05/31/11 04:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Winnipeg, LOL. What a fucking wasteland. But I am glad they could scrape together enough pennies to have a hockey team again.
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Ya its a bit of a shithole, but its improved a lot over the last decade. It's not as bad as the rep.
Whalers? That was Buffalo NY lol.......But we do have Hudson Bay which is full of Whales. I don't think anyone hunts the whales, they're a tourist attraction. We don't let the japs into the bay to kill our whales.
It's called Jets because of some history of aviation, I'm too lazy to look into it.
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#14541481 - 05/31/11 04:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nope it was the Hartford Whalers
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Oh yah yer right, I was thinking Sabres. Where the fuck is Hartford, gotta google it.
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#14541499 - 05/31/11 04:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Oh yah, the state you go through to get to other states.
Quebec will be next to get a team back I bet.
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Vancouver just lost their farm team, Moose are now Jets farm team, although they'll be relocated to Newfoundland or something.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/05/31/mb-moose-ahl-nhl-hockey.html
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#14541530 - 05/31/11 04:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I believe the league commission was talking about it
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One of the good things about Winnipeg...
In terms of income, Winnipeg ranks No. 5 among Canada's major cities. The jobless rate has dropped from 8.3 per cent when the Jets left in 1996 to five per cent in 2011. In addition, the average household income has jumped to $63,000.
5% unemployment is decent, not many cities with 800,000 people can claim that.
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Went to every game when they were here. Portage and main has been blocked since 11 and there is a pickup street tourney currently. Gonna head down to the forks in the next hour or so to celebrate.
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Venetian Snares? ANYONE!? Fuck, how hard is it to hijack a thread nowadays?
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#14542004 - 05/31/11 06:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Its nice to see Winnipeg get there team back. Its much more fitting than Atlanta. Who the fuck plays hockey down there anyways?
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GOOOOOO CANUCKS
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#14542296 - 05/31/11 07:29 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Winnipeg Whalers, guys. Think about it.
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I'm still going with the Jets I'm old school
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Hajnal said: Venetian Snares? ANYONE!? Fuck, how hard is it to hijack a thread nowadays? 
Check 5 posts down from the original post, numbnuts...
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#14542374 - 05/31/11 07:50 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Im so happy for this. The Red Wings had to play that shit Nashville team all the fuckin time. Good to see the right thing happening here.
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Seriously though,Nashville sucks
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Wow, phail on my part. That was my 2nd choice in song posting! Good to know I'm not alone
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NOt at all. You getting Snares' Cubist Reggae EP?
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FUCK WINNIPEG!
God damnit, how many hockey teams are we going to lose to Canada?!
The deal is 99% done, it just has to be approved by the NHL Board of Governors at a meeting on June 21, 2011. But the NHL is getting $40,000,000 for a relocation fee so it's gonna go through.
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Hockey was born in Canada. Besides that four of the first original six teams were from America. This is better for hockey. Hockey is never going to be as big as the NFL or NBA or MLB in this country anyways so no need to push it on people and cities who want no part of it or could care less about the sport.
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You need to get owners who give a shit then maybe Georgia can keep a NHL team
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steelmonkey said: You need to get owners who give a shit then maybe Georgia can keep a NHL team
That's for true
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On January 22, 2011, the team's ownership claimed they had lost $130 million in the last six years, partially as a result of an ongoing lawsuit with former partner, Steve Belkin.
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The malpractice suit recounts a split that occurred in 2005, when Belkin objected to the Atlanta Hawks' trade of Boris Diaw, two first-round draft picks and a $4.9 million trade exception to the Phoenix Suns for guard Joe Johnson, who had agreed to a $70 million contract.
The other owners sought to buy Belkin's 30 per cent stake in the venture and assigned King & Spalding to negotiate an appraisal process that would give the disgruntled shareholder a "fair and reasonable" value while protecting the other co-owners' interests, the lawsuit said.
But the suit claimed King & Spalding flubbed its responsibilities with, among other things, a loose definition of "fair market value" that gave Belkin an inflated stake. It then tried to conceal the truth and minimize its legal exposure after discovering the malpractice, according to the suit, leaving the other owners bogged down in litigation.
"Instead of quickly buying out their co-owner's interest for a fair price in the fall of 2005, plaintiffs were tied up in litigation for five years, operation of the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Thrashers was impaired, and title to the franchises was clouded," it said. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=350451
It's not even that attendance is terrible, it's partially cause the ownsers are a bunch of shitheads.
Tom Glavine was saying he would be down to start a group to own the Thrashers, but I haven't heard anything more about that.
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14543172 - 05/31/11 10:37 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thats what makes it even more pathetic,the fan base is there but they lose out due to mismanagement by owners that only care about the dollar and not about the game itself
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: steelmonkey]
#14543498 - 05/31/11 11:42 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14543565 - 05/31/11 11:55 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Now toss out the Coyotes from Phoenix and put them in Qc City and all will be well...
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14544136 - 06/01/11 02:39 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hahaa nice, good to see everyone hates Bettman not just Canadians.
It is sad because the owners sucked. The team has potential, and a ton of room to buy players since it was way below the spending cap. They got the 7th round for the upcoming draft in the fall. Evander Kane is really good, Ladd, Antropov, Dustin Byfuglien and Enstrom on D. So when they build around that, it should be an excellent team.
I feel for the fans, but they have to be loyal through the good and bad. Although they never won a game in the playoffs, so obviously their management and owners sucked ass. I wouldnt have gone to games either.
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: Irishdrunk]
#14544175 - 06/01/11 02:54 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: Irishdrunk]
#14549642 - 06/02/11 06:40 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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My uncle was on CBC during the Stanley Cup final haha, they interviewed him at the MTS center in Winnipeg about tickets. My dad and uncle bought a box with another company, 14 seats or some shit. And hotties who bring food and booze non stop.
So every time I visit the peg I'll be up in the corporate boxes!
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: Irishdrunk]
#14549898 - 06/02/11 08:10 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Those are awesome dude,they have leather chairs and theres a bar right in the box.When I lived in Calgary I had clients that would always send tickets my way for there corporate boxes....too bad it was the flames though
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: steelmonkey]
#14549914 - 06/02/11 08:18 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I like Calgary, good hick town. I don't like Edmonton.....I think Calgary should invade and take over Edmonton.
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: steelmonkey]
#14551353 - 06/02/11 03:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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steelmonkey said: Those are awesome dude,they have leather chairs and theres a bar right in the box.When I lived in Calgary I had clients that would always send tickets my way for there corporate boxes....too bad it was the flames though
Whats wrong with the Atlanta Flames?
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14551436 - 06/02/11 03:38 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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tl;dr
arent they going to have to build a new stadium?
i know they tore down the old one and then just built that one a few years ago.. i think that the new one is smaller than the required number of seats for an NHL team..
im not sure. just throwing it out there.
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14551863 - 06/02/11 05:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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steelmonkey said: Those are awesome dude,they have leather chairs and theres a bar right in the box.When I lived in Calgary I had clients that would always send tickets my way for there corporate boxes....too bad it was the flames though
Whats wrong with the Atlanta Flames?
I don't know?..my box seats were for the calgary flames
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: steelmonkey]
#14551876 - 06/02/11 05:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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steelmonkey said: Those are awesome dude,they have leather chairs and theres a bar right in the box.When I lived in Calgary I had clients that would always send tickets my way for there corporate boxes....too bad it was the flames though
Whats wrong with the Atlanta Flames?
I don't know?..my box seats were for the calgary flames
They were better off in Atlanta, just like the Trahsers
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14551892 - 06/02/11 05:21 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Atleast they won a cup in calgary but personally I think they sucked in Atlanta and Calgary
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: steelmonkey]
#14551911 - 06/02/11 05:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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steelmonkey said: Atleast they won a cup in calgary but personally I think they sucked in Atlanta and Calgary
I'm just bitter because we're losing another hockey team to Canada. And no, the Thrashers weren't great but they were an NHL team so it brought NHL games to Atl. Now we finally got a decent lineup, and the owners, beings the shitheads they are, can't make sense of anything that's not a basketball. Fuck them.
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Re: WEEEELLLLLLLCOME YOUR WINNIPEGGGG JEEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! [Re: citricacidx]
#14551934 - 06/02/11 05:30 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't blame you all the fans got tooled on that deal and it's probally going to be a long time before you get another NHL team.On another note I thought game one sucked balls on both Vancouver and Boston's part,the only light was the goaltending on both teams
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