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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!

http://m.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2013/05/13/nhl-not-interested-in-pastors-277.html?r=full Assuming the numbers discussed here are in actual dollars and not Greg Jamison Leprechaun Gold, boy, does this ever indicate an eastward journey.

If they trotted Hulsizer and Jamison ("I have plenty of investors." "Oh, you do? Who are they?" "No.") before the City Council, but declined to do the same for Pastor, either his financials were astoundingly laughable, or there's been a change in the endgame at the NHL offices.

There was a story earlier this week on AZCentral about Gosbee and the former Ice Edgers having put up $240 million for the $170 million purchase. But that story also mentioned the postponement of their presentation to the Glendale City Council, so I dunno. At this point in the saga, I'll only believe something is happening when something actually happens. George Fallar tried chirping me about the Presidents' Trophy Curse a couple weeks ago. Dumber than advertised.

Making a counterfeit of a jersey the team wore in warmups to auction off for cancer charities. Yay, it's a new low!

Tonight's Coyotes game is being broadcast on Money Radio 1510 AM. Put it on a tee for me, why don't ya.

Finally, Phoenix gets its own JB Smith. http://m.prnewswire.com/news-releases/darin-pastor-to-lead-investor-group-seeking-to-purchase-nhls-phoenix-coyotes-200607841.html Remember how a bunch of random fools showed up near the end saying they wanted to buy the Thrashers? For that matter, remember how the Thrashers fell apart in February of that year, and how we later found out that was when several players learned the move to Winnipeg was a lock? Yeah, the Yotes just got off a 6-game skid.

And I'll take Rose Marie to block, Peter. Seriously, what intelligent Canadian businessman wouldn't buy a hockey team to keep it in Arizona when it was on the verge of moving to Canada?

Anything coming from Darren Dreger regarding league operations may as well come from the league's press office. Bill Daly's probably scrubbing Dreger's breakfast off his hand right now. This is the last, desperate gasp. We really should have a party if they finally bite it.

Well, you see, now we just get Chris Hansen to buy the Bucks instead, move them to Seattle, shove the Coyotes up Northwest, put NHL 31 and 32 in Milwaukee & Quebec City, and kick Detroit back west into a division with the Blackhawks & Blues. Simple as that! Hey, anybody got any more nutmeg?

Cross-referencing this from the Sacramento Kings thread, because it looks like the Kings are staying put, which would eliminate Seattle as a destination for the Coyotes.

I think we can add Phil Anschutz to the list of "NHL Owners No Longer Interested In Owning The Phoenix Coyotes". I know the Kings are internet-cheeky, and I understand the disclaimer at the top of the post, but holy crap, this is on the official website of an NHL team. http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=660988

Winnipeg.

Oh man, I've been looking for a place where I can get an Andrew Ladd St. John's Icecaps jersey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYP6TA_IcI

Awwwww Skeete Skeete Skeete

I'd love to see that happen, since the A operates as two distinct leagues up until the final, anyway. Give the Midwest back a real IHL, and let the Northeasters get their precious short-trip bus league back.

Any site that uses Kari Lehtonen - in a Thrashers uniform - for its NHL splash image is probably suspect.

That's a clown question, bro. Seriously. Come on now.

Where would you rank it, as far as national mass-market fast food goes? I mean, Burger King is just the worst, McDonald's is pretty decent, Wendy's is fairly good, and White Castle is kind of a special case unto itself. Side note: I got Subway for lunch today, because my mom gave us a couple of $5 gift cards as stocking stuffers. I had a bite of roast beef that tasted vaguely of fish, which differed from all the others that just tasted of unspecified animal protein. God, that place is a sandwich atrocity.