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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
1. A goal only counts if it goes in before the buzzer goes.
2, You can't be batting 1.000 if you called this to be resolved in a matter of days months ago. 
I'm too lazy to go look, but he'd be batting about a 0.0275 for all the times he's been wrong if he gets this one right.  |
He'd have gotten the major issue correct, and the minor issue of the timing incorrect. If the thrashers end up in Winnipeg, and the Coyotes stay in Phoenix, SCH has been essentially correct the whole time. He won't be 2.75% correct, like you say.
But this talk is a bit silly until whatever happens, happens.
I still think that there is two teams (PHO and ATL) that should really move, but the NHL only sees one option for moving a team to by next season, therefore all of the work to try and make Phoenix work, since its the most likely of the two teams to stay for next season.
If Kansas City had an owner, or if Quebec City had a new arena, the NHL might have given up on Phoenix already.
There are other options that would work better in the long term, but would take longer to set up/move. A second team isn't going to move into Toronto by next season, nor does Hamilton have a proper arena either, plus negotiations with the TML would have to happen first.
Atlanta's owners are desperately trying to get out, and no one wants to buy the team to keep it in Atlanta. The same owners own the arena, so there isn't any issues with the city like there is in Phoenix. I'd be quite surprised if the Thrashers play in Atlanta next season. I think the NHL is just waiting as long as it can to see if there will be one or two teams moving. If just Atlanta is going to move, they will go to Winnipeg. If Phoenix and Atlanta are moving, Phoenix will likely go to Winnipeg, and Atlanta to... Quebec City I'd imagine.