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| | NHL All-Star Game set ajc.com |
 | | The NHL and the Thrashers will announce at a Philips Arena news conference this afternoon that the league has awarded its 2005 All-Star Game to Atlanta, four people familiar with the situation said Wednesday. |
 | | However, with just three days left before this year's All-Star Game in Minnesota and with the Hawks-Thrashers sale still not completed, the NHL has run out of time to wait. |
 | | "With the NHL All-Star Game now coming to Atlanta, we will have hosted, in a five-year period, every major event that the leagues place by bids," said Sports Council president Gary Stokan, referring also to the 2000 Super Bowl, 2000 baseball All-Star Game and 2003 NBA All-Star Game. |
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