Topic: Atlanta Thrashers
(Reuters) - Rich Peverley has signed a three-year contract extension that will keep the center with the Boston Bruins through the 2014-15 National Hockey League season, the team said on Tuesday.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed."I like his speed and ...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Winnipeg Jets have signed captain Andrew Ladd to a new contract following a season where the forward set career highs in goals and points, the National Hockey League (NHL) team said on Tuesday.Details of the agreement were ...
The National Hockey League approved the sale of the Atlanta Thrashers by a unanimous vote Tuesday, as the NHL returns to Winnipeg for the first time since the Jets left town 15 years ago.Canadian firm True North Sports and Entertainment bought the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Hockey League formally approved the sale and relocation of the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg Tuesday, rubber-stamping the first franchise relocation in the league since 1997.Winnipeg hockey fans began celebrating last month when the Thrashers were sold ...
Winnipeg ice hockey fans needed only 17 minutes to purchase all 13,000 available season tickets for the city's new National Hockey League team, the relocated former Atlanta Thrashers.True North Sports and Entertainment, which completed a purchase deal for the Thrashers four days ...
Winnipeg welcomed the National Hockey League back when True North Sports and Entertainment announced it was buying the Atlanta franchise with plans to move it to the Canadian Prairie city.The deal between True North and Atlanta Spirit Group, which is reportedly worth ...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - True North Sports and Entertainment, the Canadian group trying to bring a National Hockey League team to Winnipeg, has called a press conference for Tuesday at 11 a.m. CDT (1600 GMT) and is expected to announce a conditional ...
Hockey fans crowded Winnipeg's downtown in western Canada overnight cheering news that the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers may be moved to the city -- 15 years after it lost its beloved Jets franchise.The daily Globe and Mail reported that the NHL's board of ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - The National Hockey League will return to Winnipeg next year under an agreement reached by a Canadian business group to buy the financially strapped Atlanta Thrashers, a newspaper reported on Thursday.True North Sports and Entertainment will buy the franchise ...
Owners of the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers have started negotiations with a Canadian group on a sale that would move the club to Winnipeg, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday.The financially struggling Thrashers, whose average home attendance of 13,469 last season was the third-worst ...