CBC The National - The Return of the NHL to Winnipeg, May 2011

CBC's The National top news story and coverage of the Return of The NHL to Winnipeg with Peter Mansbridge, May 31, 2011.

[@FAITHandLOGIC]

I live in Atlanta and no one even talks about hockey here. There are very few who miss the team. I miss having hockey here but that's because I'm a northerner. I'm happy for Winnipeg. They deserve their team back.

[@TjSamson]

Atlanta only talks about Basketball, Baseball, and football

[@pinepoint14]

FAITHandLOGIC I know hockey isn't big in Atlanta but I sincerely feel for all the true Thrasher fans as we in Winnipeg also know what its like to lose our hockey team.

[@mcaddicts]

Second team Atlanta lost to Canada.

[@SigmaRho2922]

What about the gladiators?

[@neroameealucard945]

Had the Thrashers actually been run competently for more of their existence, there's a chance they couldve stayed.

[@Dannypuck]

You can see the pain in Bettman's face having a Canadian team back in the league. He'd rather have Portland or Seattle get the team. Suck it, Gary!

[@sportsmaster1364]

Just having to move a team from a city in the Southern U.S., where he was so hell-bent on expanding the league to... Having to move one of those expansion franchises hurt his Southern hockey scheme, so of course it hurts him. But we don't care; we got the Jets back!

[@MSU-DetroitFan]

Well Seattle is getting a team now

[@FischerFan]

@@MSU-DetroitFan They should've got the Coyotes years ago; but the greedy owners had to have that extra dose of expansion money!

[@metrofilmer8894]

@@FischerFan Seattle almost did back in 6-7 years ago and the Coyotes were 1 vote in Glendale City council away from moving

[@oOTyLeROo1000]

7:53 “A wrong has been set right” damn right! Now give us our history back!

[@ryanm7263]

"The tickets will have to sell out in three weeks." They sold out in what, three minutes? Didn't the Tickemaster servers crash?

[@ryanfriesen4366]

they sold out all 15000 in that time too lol

[@Hoovie9596]

Yes

[@Ryguy-lg2xz]

7 or 8 years later it’s a success

[@onewingedangel6196]

yes sir

[@Habebandebardown]

Bring back the Nordique

[@swaggypants6919]

makes sense. sell the panthers or coyotes to real owners who will put both teams in hartford and quebec

[@893160007]

Bettman is such a hypocrite, why does Phoenix work with 4000 people every night

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

He is, though Arizona will not have a NHL team in 2026-27 if they can not secure a deal for a long term arena by fall.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

And now the Liberals have destroyed the Canadian economy so bad, the season ticket sales are not being sold, the dollar is weaker then ever, cost of living higher then after WW2, and if it continues this way much longer then Winnipeg could lose the team again. This time if Winnipeg loses the team don't blame Gary Bettman, blame Justin Trudeau.

[@FischerFan]

@@XxxXxx-fm3wo They won't even have one for 2024-25!

[@jetshull]

back in 1996 i put a piece of tape over the jets on my car licence plate which i wrote "phoenix" on, me and the wife TORE it off, when it was announced, 15 years later, WHOOOOOO HOOOOO, GO JETS GO.

[@MSU-DetroitFan]

Winnipeg gets there team back Quebec and Hartford: can we get our teams back Gary Bettman: Vegas and Seattle teams instead

[@BigTiger_99]

Well, Vegas has been a success so far, We’ll see about Seattle, since it has all the makings of a good Hockey Market, I would say move the Coyotes to Quebec or Hartford, but if they continue a slow rise back to relevance, I wouldn’t see that happening, At least with Quebec, they moved to a just as suitable hockey market in Colorado! Maybe Expanding to 36 within the next decade, and putting Quebec and Hartford in the East, and 2 other teams in the west, but where?

[@codyallan9222]

Unfortunately I don’t see Hartford ever getting another team, they’ll need a new arena and honestly it’s pretty congested out in that area but one can always hope

[@MSU-DetroitFan]

Yeah Hartford has the slimmest chance at getting a NHL team especially with market in Houston Salt Lake City and Kansas City open

[@FischerFan]

Hartford is probably out of luck because Jeremy Jacobs, owner of the Boston Bruins, endorses Gary Bettman as NHL Commissioner. Bettman doesn't want to do anything that would cost him brownie points with Jacobs.

[@swaggypants6919]

this is where we as fans have to hope that the coyotes, a team that no one in arizona cares about gets sold to people who are from quebec and bring the nordiques back

[@HeightsCavillac]

I wonder what happened to the two fans interviewed in this video - did they get tickets or not?

[@Lawomenshoops]

Once season tickets were purchased, the next decision was who gets the first home game and who gets the game versus the ducks when Teemu comes back to town!

[@RoseCityRebel]

Well, they made it work!

[@radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:50, It Was CBC-TV's CBC News' The National Video Open From Tuesday Night, May 31, 2011.

[@johnnyballenatl]

I'd love to see how CTV National News covered this (if anybody has it).

[@iHeartsNostalgiaPit]

yeah it's a shame retro winnipeg didn't put any footage of the celebrations on his retro winnipeg tv channel (where he normally puts the ctv stuff)

[@maccarr9923]

"This city will be celebrating" might be one of the most poorly aged statements made PRIOR to the 2011 Stanley Cup Final

[@FischerFan]

Yeah! Atlanta is so large it was sure to be a 'GREAAT, great MAAAWKET'; right Mr. Bettman?

[@christfollower7315]

Educate yourself about what actually happened before speaking from an ignorant position. It was purely a problem with the owners, not support amongst the fans. And Atlanta IS HUGE! It is the second largest urbanized area, by square miles, in the United States, second to New York, and third largest urbanized area by square miles in the world, only smaller than New York and Tokyo. The Atlanta area has nearly 6 million people. Winnipeg has 750,000 or so. Atlanta's market share is much larger, and if the team was marketed correctly and had good owners they'd still be in Atlanta. I mean, if Nashville, a metro that Atlanta is nearly four times the size can be successful, then certainly Atlanta could be.

[@FischerFan]

@@christfollower7315 Yes, Atlanta is huge. It just doesn't have a sufficient hockey fan base. That has been demonstrated not once, but twice now. Educate yourself with the facts, deal with them, and quit blaming everything on the owners.

[@sillygoose635]

@@FischerFan Oh shut up.

[@FischerFan]

@@sillygoose635 What's the matter, little boy? Does the truth hurt you that much? Why don't you MAKE ME shut up?!!!

[@GerryGordonsMazda]

JETS BABY

[@JJ-bf6dx]

Why does it appear to look like the 90’s???

[@MrVirobot]

I watched the Dallas Winnipeg game a few nights ago. The stands had MANY empty seats. I sense a return for the Nordiques!

[@ryanmartin8914]

Winnipeg ✔ hopefully soon Quebec City

[@rileykazama3145]

#ripatlantatrashers

[@THELEAFSFAN]

Cool

[@kylepiccoli4762]

1:50 Especially when he’s moving a team from down south to north of the border…

[@sahilasre4006]

Seattle next up. It just makes sense.

[@JRayEdits]

James Moore yah hartford not seatle

[@sahilasre4006]

We have ENOUGH Eastern teams. We need more Western teams to balance out the amount of teams in both conferences.

[@JRayEdits]

Senpai Sahil ok but seatle will not get one its a horrible city wich dosent deserve any team we got buetfial vancouver canucks and Anaheim Ducks Chicago Blackhawks Arizona Coyotes Colorado Avalanche Calgary Flames Dallas Stars Edmonton Oilers Minnesota Wild Los Angeles Kings Nashville Predators San Jose Sharks St. Louis Blues Winnipeg Jets next team hartford then qubec city then kelowna SEATLE SUCKS

[@sahilasre4006]

It's just your opinion. And you don't have a very valid explanation of why Seattle sucks.

[@JRayEdits]

it always rains its ugly every one thier smokes pot its a horrible city

[@FischerFan]

That's what's announced! It's not out of the question to see less than five thousand some nights in places like that.

[@johnzillman912]

Bring the Nordiques back to Quebec city.

[@bhenderson2725]

lol@noJetsname

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Peter I've got a face like a football