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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Interesting. At the very least Winnipeg franchise records would be intact.
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U2 was playing in Winnipeg a few days before the Thrashers sale closed - Chipman was apparently hoping they'd be able to make this come together:
"I remember U2 played at the stadium a couple days before we announced the deal and we were thinking, “Wouldn’t it be cool if they made the announcement in front of 50,000 people?” We could have almost pulled that off...
The day we announced it the weather was crappy, and that night was beautiful and what if The Edge and Bono came out in Jets jerseys and said, “We got some news we want to share…”
Anyhow that didn’t work out but we knew by then it was almost a certainty."
That spectacle would've been something else.