The 2009 NHL Off-Season Thread

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izaaz101 said:

JEDE3 said:

izaaz101 said:

JEDE3 said:
Pheonix is still a team

I think "team" might be a tad generous at this point.

I hear the White Sox owner is interested in buying the team and working on them in Pheonix. I think it would be stupid to move them to Toronto like the other guy. I mean I'm pretty sure Toronto already has an established fan base. Why fight over fans being so close? Its silly to me. But then again... moving from Winnipeg to Pheonix seemed silly to me too.

Yeah, what's that guy's name.......Bruckheimer (sp)?

I personally prefer it if they went back to Winnipeg. The reasons for leaving were because of a crappy arena, and poor corporate support. They have a state of the art arena now, although I'm not sure of the corporate support (but it can't be any worse than the situation in Phoenix). I'm all in favour to "Make it seven,".........but not Hamilton.

I wouldn't mind having the Coyotes in the same place, that means the Sharks have a team they play against 6 times a year that is really close for easy travel and wouldn't be to hard to achieve 8-12 points from out of 6 games.

If they move that means (like for example Eastern Canada somewhere) that would entail re-doing the Western & Eastern Conferences, as well as the Divisions. Who would get moved to the Pacific Division? Vancouver?