Winnipeg wants an NHL team back

It's interesting that right now Winnipeg has higher quality hockey than the
Twin Cities...

Still though, I'm not happy. I can't bring myself to cheer on the Vancouver
Canucks prospects... we hated the 'Nucks when the Jets were here... and I
cannot "get into" a hockey game unless I'm watching a team I like. (I love
the Wild btw)


"Patrick Lee Humphrey" <patrick.TakeThisOut@io.com> wrote in message
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> "Jason" <DarkerNOSPAM.TakeThisOut@Shaw.ca> writes:
>
>>Check out www.JetsOwner.com in your spare time if you'd like to learn more
>>about the efforts to bring an NHL franchise back to Winnipeg.
>
> Considering the NHL might not be back in any recognizable form in the near
> future, I'd hope they're happy with being in what might be the world's
> best pro
> league while the NHL is taking a long vacation.
>
> --
> Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
> www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
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"Jason" <DarkerNOSPAM.RemoveThis@Shaw.ca> writes:

>"Patrick Lee Humphrey" <patrick.RemoveThis@io.com> wrote in message
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>> "Jason" <DarkerNOSPAM.RemoveThis@Shaw.ca> writes:

>>>Check out www.JetsOwner.com in your spare time if you'd like to learn more
>>>about the efforts to bring an NHL franchise back to Winnipeg.

>> Considering the NHL might not be back in any recognizable form in the near
>> future, I'd hope they're happy with being in what might be the world's best
>> pro league while the NHL is taking a long vacation.

>It's interesting that right now Winnipeg has higher quality hockey than the
>Twin Cities...

....and a little ironic that the same Moose spent their first two years in the
Cities, back in the IHL days. (Our first Aeros road trip was to see the Aeros
pop the Moose at the old Civic Center, back in 1995.)

>Still though, I'm not happy. I can't bring myself to cheer on the Vancouver
>Canucks prospects... we hated the 'Nucks when the Jets were here... and I
>cannot "get into" a hockey game unless I'm watching a team I like. (I love
>the Wild btw)

I know the feeling...and outside of the Stars and Wild, it's not always easy
to find decent hockey on the tube, even when the NHL *is* playing. (The last
Stanley Cup was a seven-game relief, and proof that good hockey doesn't
necessarily mean high scoring.) I have no love lost for the Canuckleheads,
either.

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.....looks left....looks right...hmmm...no NHL hockey here....no AHL hockey
here.....no ECHL hockey here....
We have Gopher hockey....but I don't get to watch hockey on Fri or
Sat....just not fair!

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"Jason" <DarkerNOSPAM.TakeThisOut@Shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> It's interesting that right now Winnipeg has higher quality hockey than
> the Twin Cities...
>
> Still though, I'm not happy. I can't bring myself to cheer on the
> Vancouver Canucks prospects... we hated the 'Nucks when the Jets were
> here... and I cannot "get into" a hockey game unless I'm watching a team I
> like. (I love the Wild btw)
>
>
> "Patrick Lee Humphrey" <patrick.TakeThisOut@io.com> wrote in message
> news:szkvfcdr8h2.fsf@fnord.io.com...
>> "Jason" <DarkerNOSPAM.TakeThisOut@Shaw.ca> writes:
>>
>>>Check out www.JetsOwner.com in your spare time if you'd like to learn
>>>more
>>>about the efforts to bring an NHL franchise back to Winnipeg.
>>
>> Considering the NHL might not be back in any recognizable form in the
>> near
>> future, I'd hope they're happy with being in what might be the world's
>> best pro
>> league while the NHL is taking a long vacation.
>>
>> --
>> Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
>> www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Winnipeg wants an NHL team back 

"JUST ME" <stateofhockey.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> writes:

>....looks left....looks right...hmmm...no NHL hockey here....no AHL hockey
>here.....no ECHL hockey here....
>We have Gopher hockey....but I don't get to watch hockey on Fri or
>Sat....just not fair!

hey, you had the IHL Moose for two seasons after Norm Greed kidnapped the
Stars...and the Moose had Dave "Moose" Morrisette. (That was a bit before he
spent his season and a half in Houston, of course. :-)

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www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
 >> Stay informed about: Winnipeg wants an NHL team back 

Ya, I had season tickets to the Minnesota Moose as well.....it was
fun....moose was great and Dan Shank was a gem too ;-)

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"Patrick Lee Humphrey" <patrick DeleteThis @io.com> wrote in message
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> "JUST ME" <stateofhockey DeleteThis @hotmail.com> writes:
>
>>....looks left....looks right...hmmm...no NHL hockey here....no AHL hockey
>>here.....no ECHL hockey here....
>>We have Gopher hockey....but I don't get to watch hockey on Fri or
>>Sat....just not fair!
>
> hey, you had the IHL Moose for two seasons after Norm Greed kidnapped the
> Stars...and the Moose had Dave "Moose" Morrisette. (That was a bit before
> he
> spent his season and a half in Houston, of course. :-)
>
> --
> Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
> www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
 >> Stay informed about: Winnipeg wants an NHL team back 

"JUST ME" <stateofhockey.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> writes:

>Ya, I had season tickets to the Minnesota Moose as well.....it was
>fun....moose was great and Dan Shank was a gem too ;-)

Moose was at the debut in Toyota Center for the 10th anniversary season --
he's back home in Québec running a restaurant. (He can serve as a bouncer, if
need be. :-) What's Shank been doing? Last I saw of him, he'd been the head
coach of a CHL team that folded out from under him 50 games into the season,
if you remember the Border City (Texarkana) Bandits. He was the guy we loved
to hate whenever his team came to Houston -- one guy had a 24x36 sign: "SHUT
UP, SHANK!" that he'd bring without fail. He might have been a whiner at
times, but to be honest, he was the hardest-working skater on the ice when he
was out there. His only problem was that he expected his teammates to put out
the same effort, which didn't make him all that popular with his own team.

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www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
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