2010 - 2011 NHL Thread

[AChimp]

The city has gone crazy with the news. There have been spontaneous parties everywhere. They closed Portage & Main (Winnipeg's busiest intersection... it's world famous in Canada) for a few hours for street hockey games in the middle of the day. Cars are honking at people wearing Jets jerseys.

I skipped out of work for a bit today with a whole bunch of my coworkers to watch the announcement live. There were several thousand people gathered at the place I was at, all chanting "GO JETS GO," and there were a bunch of other locations around the city with just as many people. There was a big party at the Forks (our big Downtown park area) for most of the day with bands and lots and lots of beer.

I also snapped a really blurry picture of Gary Bettman with all of the other members of the ownership group and the NHL brass as they were walking through the arena. Bettman is not as short as he looks on TV.