User:Elizabeth Anne Wolfe

This is the user page of Elizabeth Anne Wolfe. I'm very new to this but want to make accurate contibutions to Wikipedia wherever I can. I'm correcting what I think is an egregious misconception on someone's part to the Winnipeg Jets article, the Atlanta Thrashers history and how they were acquired for Winnipeg.

A draftMain article: Atlanta Thrashers Atlanta was awarded an NHL expansion franchise, named the Atlanta Thrashers, on June 25, 1997. It was the second NHL franchise for Atlanta (their first being the Atlanta Flames, established in 1972, who departed for Calgary in 1980 to become the Calgary Flames). The Atlanta Thrashers qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs only once, during the 2006–07 season. Because of ownership management and ensuing financial issues there were difficulties in drawing the needed team players to move forward into future Stanley Cup playoffs contention, thus the team was sold to True North Sports and Entertainment.[1]

[edit] Contested deletionThis page should not be speedy deleted because... The last ownership was the fault of the sale of the Thrashers to Winnipeg. Since the ownership group acquired the rights to Philips Arena, the Atlanta Thrashers and Atlanta Hawks from Time Warner, they almost immediately decided try to to sell the Thrashers (the Thrashers only and not the rights to Philips Arena nor the Atlanta Hawks Basketball team). During the first several years of the Atlanta Thrashers existence, Philips Arena was sold out for the majority of the hockey games. The team was owned by another group, Time Warner, at that time. Since the new ownership took over from Time Warner in 2003, there was no funding put into the hockey team to acquire quality players to improve the team; the only exception was when the team made it to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2007. All playoff games were sellouts at that time as well. In no way is this sale to Winnipeg due to lack of interest by hockey fans living in Atlanta. The fans were turned off by the latest ownership group who did not want to put a quality product on the ice.