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Originally Posted by Geeoff
It's weird to me how the NHL has jumped through so many hoops to keep the Coyotes in Arizona but they bailed on the Thrashers so easily.
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Quite the opposite, actually. The NHL spent a very long time - close to seven years, iirc, trying to find an owner in Atlanta. Atlanta Spirit never wanted the team at all. It was forced to take it to get the Hawks and the arena.
The difference between Atlanta and Phoenix is that nobody engineered a phony bankruptcy scam that forced the Atlanta situation into the public spotlight.