Sodboy13

January 31st, and we don't. Unless the new city council, which takes over mid-January after being elected on a "Jesus CHRIST, these effing people" platform, decides to come charging out of the gate and tells Greg and all his imaginary friends to go pound sand.

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/28/bid-fo-referendum-on-coyotes-lease-deal-comes-up-short/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Glendale residents couldn't get enough signatures to force a referendum on the lease deal. So the only thing holding back Greg Jamison from being able to buy the Coyotes is Greg Jamison being able to buy the Coyotes. 5 weeks allegedly left on the clock, Greg. Time to check if Qantas has any good deals on January fares.

Paul Allen wanted to buy the Coyotes in 2001 and move them to Portland, but the league thought they had things lined up to get an arena deal in Scottsdale. Whoopsies! Here come your Arizona Qatar Foundation Coyotes!

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/28/jamison-reportedly-traveled-to-middle-east-in-search-of-coyotes-investors/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Look on the bright side. Greg Jamison still has five other continents to try to find people who'd want to fund his purchase of the Coyotes.

I got The Instigator for Christmas, and tore through it in past two nights (thanks for the recommendation, Admiral). One of the interesting bits of Coyotes history I was previously unaware of was that Jerry Colangelo, the point man in bringing the Jets southward in 1996, wanted to be free and clear of the thing by 1998, and it was more or less in Gary's hands (either by his own choosing or not) to scrape together enough couch cushion change and various local investment to keep the 'Yotes afloat. Bettman's taken the lead on saving desert hockey with duct tape and Fix-a-Flat for nearly 15 years now, not just the 4 since Jerry Moyes went teats-up and tried to shuffle them off to Noted Enemy Jim Balsillie. They are, in so many ways, his team.

http://m.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2012/12/27/glendale-signs-arena-management-deal.html?r=full Glendale's signed the lease with Invisible Moneybags Jamison and his investment group of leprechauns, even though Jamison still hasn't bought the team, nor shown he has the money to do so. This is going to be ever-so-delightful when the new regime takes over in two-and-a-half weeks and Jamison still isn't the owner.

It's amazing how ardently counterfeit buyers defend their purchases and lavish praise on their alleged quality, yet are almost always unwilling to post photos of them. Put up or shut up.

Well, it looks like one of Glendale's cornerstone issues will be addressed, as reports floating around tonight say the team will change its name to "Arizona Coyotes". Pat yourselves on your backs, Glendale City Council. All it took was $400 million in taxpayer money, but you finally got the team to name itself after the state instead of the major city that gave your hilljack exurb such an inferiority complex, it had to leverage its future on questionable real estate developments at the apex of the bubble in a foolhardy attempt to overcompensate. Bravo!

Glendale was in some trouble, what a sad sad story Needed a new owner to retain false hopes of glory Where, oh where was he? Where could that man be? We looked around, and then we found, the man for you and me And... now... it's... Springtime, for Bettman, and Jamison Outlet, mall hockey, is saved Mortgage, our future, to save some face Guaranteed, plenty, of parking space Springtime, for Bettman, and Jamison Piss on, Columbus, they're done Springtime, for Bettman, and Jamison Hey Arizona, bend over, we won!

There has to be some sort of dire reckoning in Glendale before that full 10 years is up. Remember the frightening numbers from the Camelback Ranch fiasco. The good news is that, though the league's going to have to own a team for another 10 years, it'll probably only play hockey for 6 or 7 of those years.

And by "it", we mean another 30-day extension, but that's it! (That last "it" will also be a 30-day extension.)

Jobing.com Arena has such bold flavors, you guys.

*stares at screen* *takes long, slow drink* *spits drink across room* BAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Troll hard, son, troll hard.

Not that it's unexpected or anything, but Glendale approved another 30-day lease extension with the league today.

When it comes to the Coyotes, if deadline extensions were fans, this team would have a season ticket waiting list.

Pics or it doesn't count.

He's gonna have until August 2013 to get the scratch together.

Now that's insulting to the sock puppet and hooker! Jamison's mystery partners DISCOVERED SUCKERS I feel like I've waited 9 years for a Sifl & Olly reference to drop on these boards. This completes me. Nominatin'.

I feel like IceCap's version in Comic Sans really captures the spirit of the thing.

So what you're saying is, we need the mother of all haboobs to hit Glendale, and have the Coyotes hang a shingle at Sprint Center for a season.

And, as is the tradition, the fans of Kansas City will manage to make the fans of Phoenix look spectacular by comparison. I pity any team that would actually move there. Not turning up to a meaningless preseason game between two teams who have no historical basis in the city ≠ not turning up if there was a team based in the city, playing full on competetive hockey The counter-argument is that if a market won't show up to exhibitions which are being staged as trial balloons to gauge fan interest, why plunk down a couple hundred million dollars on the hope they actually will show once there's a hometown team? Averaging 5,500 a game for top-tier minors 12 years ago is not a suitable exhibit to prove current major-league market interest, either.

Except that there's debate as to how many signatures they needed, and the actual deadline, according to how the laws are laid out regarding this sort of thing. So it's all probably going to the courts. Again. Though, if the opposition can't even muster up the support of 1,500 voters for an anti-tax referendum deep in the heart of Teabaggerland, 'em. Let the whole city destroy itself in the most cataclysmic endgame possible while 12,000 a night look on.

This whole thread, and the two preceding it, comprise one long piece of OITGDNHL performance art.

Folding a team during CBA negotiations with the players' union is a great way to ensure we won't be watching NHL hockey for a long, long time.