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Not so fast...doesn't sound like it is a done deal.....Brian Burke apparently doesn't think the move has enough support from AHL teams.

As few as eight votes against extending the league's profile west of the Rockies would quash everything Lane Sweeting and his ownership group have been working on over the past two years.

"Nice partners," said Vancouver Giants owner Ron Toigo. "Putting an AHL team to Abbotsford would kill junior hockey in the Fraser Valley. Right away, Chilliwack can't compete. Nor can the (BCHL) Langley Chiefs for that matter. If they had no ties to our league, it's just business. But when you're a partner in anything, the goal is to make your partners succeed. And that's the issue I have."

Should it reach a vote, you'd have to think the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers would lobby their AHL affiliates to sway to the "nay" side of the equation. General managers Brian Burke and Glen Sather, respectively, are part owners of the Chilliwack Bruins, the team that will be most impacted by the arrival of the AHL.

"The only thing Brian has said to me is he isn't going to get involved because it isn't going to pass," said Darryl Porter, another Bruins owner who serves as its president and general manager. "It doesn't make sense if a bunch of teams don't come as a cluster."

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...267/story.html