Sodboy13

I understand why the NHL isn't moving the Coyotes to Quebec City. They're trying to play the long game. Quebec is building a $400 million arena with no promise of a team. They *need* an NHL team, so there's no reason to sell them the Coyotes for $220 million now when you can charge them a $400-600 million expansion fee in a couple of years.

The problem is that, for expansion to be feasible and for Seattle to succeed, multiple things have to break their way that the league has no control over. The path they've chosen seems very high-risk.

This is the Cleveland Barons all over again, only with a worse arena situation.

Atlanta?

The decision whether or not to move the team comes a week after the draft. Eight letters go here.

Some of us remember when the AFL Las Vegas Gladiators held their practices in a casino parking lot under the midday Nevada desert sun, occasionally next to where circus animals were kept, and once played a regular-season game on a non-holiday Monday afternoon on a surface patched with duct tape in some spots.

And by "some of us", I mean probably just me and rams80.

Not with that lineup, they aren't.

Perhaps the NHL is saving Quebec for the Devils?

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=425724

Just my opinion but I think the Devils will stay put in North Jersey. I still feel like the team that will move to Quebec are the Panthers. How that team has survived as long as they have in South Florida is beyond me.

The Panthers operate as a loss leader for the arena, and the owners face a severe penalty if the team breaks its long-term lease.

If you believe the Blackhawks, the mighty, sold-out-five-years-straight Blackhawks, are actually losing as much as the Phoenix Coyotes every season, I've got a great business proposal to offer you. Cash only.

Rocky's pushing paper and crying poor to justify ticket hikes, and he's posturing as Rahm tries to build a competing, taxpayer-funded arena in the Sloop. Either that, or he's a worse businessman than his dad. You tell me which is more likely.

Not all opinions are worth respecting. Dumb ideas deserve to be called out as such. Welcome to grown-up time, pony-boy.

I think I have stated the Seattle Roast billions of times already. It would be an awesome tribute to the coffee industry, and I love Seattle coffee (specifically Starbucks).

Ever think there's a reason everyone keeps ignoring you?

Say, what is the Goldwater Institute up to these days, anyway?

Fox Sports Arizona has a good chunk of details, as well. Here, literally, is the money quote:

Sherwood has been preparing a report that examines the financial implications for the city with and without the Coyotes that he will present to council members on Tuesday. Based on his task force’s findings, the Coyotes remaining in Arizona would mean about $1.5 million more annually for the city.

Spending $6 million a year to bring in $1.5 million in revenue? You just got Glendaled, son!

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/20130613nhl-peppers-glendale-power-play-over-phoenix-coyotes.html

So now a Glendale says a new mystery buyer has emerged to save the team and he's totally going to have an offer ready later today and I can't even with this sh

So, calling four straight meetings while Glendale's City Council walked through a revolving door to circumvent quorum got noticed.

The Coyotes are worth $45 million. Great jorb, Gary. Great jorb.

That's what they've been doing for four years, so yes.

Donkey shows have better attendance than Glendale.

I wonder if Mexicali has an arena.

I smell a promotional night! "Donkey Show Wednesdays" at spudlust.com Arena!

(This whole thing is just an elaborate work to promote the chip wagon, right?)

We're bringin' back the Mudbugs!

Indiegogo doesn't collect unless - and until - the full amount is raised, I believe. At least, that's what Gawker said the deal was with their Crackstarter campaign.

Also, "these jerks" are Lee.

It probably won't matter if the team actually gets an owner or not. Ren Lavoie of RDS reports that the league has decided if the Coyotes can't stay in Glendae, they're going to Seattle, and nowhere else. This, of course, presents just a few wee problems, in that Seattle doesn't have a hockey arena that seats over 11,000 (very poorly), any plans for a new arena got scuttled when the NBA decided to keep the Kings in Sacramento, and the NBA isn't going to expand until 2016-17 at the earliest. So apparently, resolution of the Coyotes problem is entirely dependent on another sports league deciding they'd like to return to a market five years down the road or so. This also gives credence to the theory of "we have to give an American market an established franchise that can hit the ground running, but we can give the Canadian markets any old expansion slag heap and charge them double for the privilege, because hockey."

Screw it. Move the Coyotes to Seattle anyway, have them play an all-outdoor schedule at CenturyLink Field, rename them "Seattle Sounders HC", give everyone a free scarf, and draw 40,000 a night.

Craig Morgan of Fox Sports Arizona is reporting that George Gosbee's Renaissance Sports & Entertainment group and the NHL have agreed to terms on a sale. Bettman and Daly will meet with Glendale officials on Tuesday, the same day as a press conference to formally announce GM Don Maloney's contract extension.

Yep, that last part.

So, hey, did anybody happen to notice that the owner, general manager, and vice president of hockey operations for the Quebec Remparts decided to leave the team for another position today?

Wonder what would compel him to do that.

The Phoenix Coyotes: now available on layaway!