Glenn Healy Enjoys His Uninformed Comments

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First and foremost, the HQ would like to congratulate the town of Winnipeg for getting back their Jets. All that a lot of people ask from this part of the world is that you give the Thrashers a good home... and the HQ knows you will...

Like this...


And, yes, you lost 5-1 to Montreal in your first home game...
But Nik Antropov is the answer to the trivia question...


More than anything, CBC analyst Glenn Healy proved his jingoistic, ill-informed-ness carried over to the topic of Atlanta versus the Peg...

From Spector and his required reading:

Shortly after the puck dropped in Winnipeg, the fans serenaded Canadiens goalie Carey Price by slowly chanting his first name, hardly uncommon in NHL arenas to get under the opposition’s skin in a big game. The chants subsided, then picked up again after Nik Antropov’s goal got the Jets within 2-1.

“Want to know how we know we’re in Winnipeg?” Healy asked. “They’re chanting Price’s name. That wouldn’t have happened in Atlanta.”

The jingoism continued over the course of the evening, extending to Healy saying, while the Canadiens were extending their lead, that the Jets will improve because the knowledgeable Winnipeg fan base will hold them accountable.

Uh-huh...

For those of us at HQ who watched far more Thrashers games on-the-air and in person over the life of the franchise, fans serenaded goalies and media and fans alike held the team accountable. But when an ownership group doesn't give a damn and won't spend money they don't have in the first place in order to make money, when an ownership group looks to bail on a city during a work stoppage and doesn't tell the fan base that's what they're doing, and when there's more infighting this side of "Divorce Court," it's time for someone else to take over the wheel.

The HQ is trying to restrain its cudgel in this case that we've stated over and over again, but when uninformed and ill-informed raise out of the gopher hole, we have to restate our case...

Again...

Glenn, the fans were not and never have been the problem. But this market is not and will not anymore spend money on an investment that is shown to be dead in the water by its own owners.

Would you go to a restaurant that proves over and over again that the food is stale and the owners aren't going to change the menu...? Would you go to the same mechanic that "kinda" fixes your car...???

Didn't think so... and just as restaurants close and businesses move to better locations, the same applied to our hockey franchise here in town...

Regrettably...

We're watching you...