Around the League 47: Vancouver Collects All The Petterssons

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interesting but not surprising. I'm guessing said Atlanta group was not the Turner group that ended up getting the expansion Thrashers considering Turner was basically printing money at the time until the AOL-Time Warner merger. I'm wondering if that was while the Whale was still owned by Baldwin or if that was PK already trying to get out from that purchase, I'd imagine the former since PK still had decent cashflow with Compuware until the mid 2000s but you can never be sure.

Yeah different ownership group for Atlanta. He said that ownership group was kicking themselves shortly after as a few years later the expansion fee for the Thrashers was $80M. I believe PK was the follow up transaction when the Atlanta deal fell through.