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Yeah, I forgot about Florida. Shows you how important they are :). Your plan sounds good.

And for everyone else, I guess we could move Carolina back to Hartford. Why did they move in the first place?

Finally, as a partisan Washington Capitals fan, I do not want to contract them. Plus we traded all of our expensive and talented players for used jock straps and puck bags, so therefore we could stick around for a few years with a $10 million payroll.

Bring back the Wales and Campbell Conferences. I used to love watching the Patrick Division rivalries.

65 posted on 02/18/2005 12:41:06 PM PST by TypeZoNegative (Isn't it ironic that the spleen, most useless organ in our body is also on the left side of our body)

>> I guess we could move Carolina back to Hartford. Why did they move in the first place?

As I understood it, the owner was not satisfied with the facilities and wanted a new arena. So he moved to Carolina, and they went from getting (from memory, could be off on the numbers) 11-12,000 fans game in, game out to 5,000. Eventually they picked up some steam and were back at Whalers level. Then they went to the SC finals and really started bringing in fans, but the next year they were horrible again and attendance dropped. They were always horrible in Hartford, but still drew in a decent fan base to the games.

Maybe they could be contracted. If Karmanos lost his shirt and was kicked around by the other owners, that would be enough for me.