Monday, March 26, 2012

Thrasher the Unfriendly Ghost


In the most recent Winnipeg Jets game, they traveled to Nashville for a game against the Predators, where they lost.  However, that is not the story, as there were a few Atlanta Thrashers jerseys thrown onto the ice during the game.
The story behind it is that in the wake of the Thrashers being relocated to Winnipeg to become the new Jets, the Predators took a rather aggressive approach to court the fans that would be losing their team.  This brings to mind two things: why the Predators were the only team (that has been documented) to try and get some of the ex-Thrasher fans on their side, and whether any of those converted fans were in fact, the people who threw the jerseys onto the ice.  Nashville has been an underrated franchise in many ways, and the fact that they managed to get a few displaced Thrashers fans on their side should be an example to teams that are struggling to stay afloat (e.g. Columbus and Carolina).

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