Thanks a lot for this, Dan-- it really is tough. You seem to pretty much have a perfect grasp of the situation: these rotten, lying owners have been bad for this team since day one. They never cared about hockey in this city... They never committed needed capital to field winning teams, never fired 10-year GM Don Waddell, and never retained talented players: see Savard, Hossa, Heatley, and, of course, Kovalchuk. I thank you for saying that hockey could work in this town... and I think that it certainly could if the team would win regularly. Most Atlanta fans are fickle anyway and only support winning pro teams. You don't build a large fanbase through 11 seasons with no playoffs. (Not to mention the remaining diehard fans like myself and others... after having invested so much in this team, dreaming of that promised land of playoffs, winning teams, and sold-out games, to be let down in this way is really such a crushing blow.)