NHL return close but not time to call party planners yet
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2011/04/2...y-planners-yet
The realistic among us will take the latest from the rumour mill with a huge grain of salt and remember when the announcement of a team was supposed to happen on March 4, 2010, shortly after the end of the Olympics.
Everybody in the city knew somebody who knew somebody who knew for a fact this was going to happen.
People were angry with the Winnipeg Sun when we said we weren’t planning to cover the fictional press conference.
I’m not saying there won’t be an announcement this week.
Anything’s possible in this crazy story that has consumed us all for so long.
What we do know is that we’re closer than ever to seeing an NHL team move to Winnipeg. There is a ready and willing ownership group which has done all the leg work and preparation necessary to bring a team here on short notice.
The fact that a team could move here is no longer in question. It’s just a matter of which team becomes available and when.
It looks pretty good that it will happen soon, but there are still no guarantees.
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