Sodboy13

Yes, the fact that the lease agreement was approved in an illegal meeting, that the deal itself is illegal, and that the prospective owner still doesn't have his share of the money to buy the goddamn team are mere speedbumps.

Tennis balls. Always with the tennis balls.

GOD HATES HOCKEY

Being outraged at the Phoenix Coyotes is the one true cause that unites us all. #teamjustice

At this point, morbid curiosity makes me want them to approve the whole deal tomorrow morning despite the numerous illegalities involved, and the lack of ownership money.

Well, they've bought themselves another season and another $25 million in debt by drawing it all out this long, regardless. So, what's the endgame here? How far back do the goalposts get pushed? Does Glendale get one more season? Do they get a free pass for 2012-13 because the season gets cancelled, and then a season after that? Or do they continue this farce all the way to 2015 when Quebecor finishes Le Colisee Nouveau, at which point the league will throw up deuces and tear ass down the Loop 101?

I think that's left over from the first alleged Reinsdorf courting in 2010, and it's still every bit as toothless now as it was then. Edit: Sho'nuff! Take a trip with me in the Hockey Ownership Farce Wayback Machine, kids!

When you know none of them are going to buy the team anyway, you don't have to be so particular about names.

Well, you know, with the traffic and all. Plus five more in Saskatoon! Wait, wrong sham owner.

I just had a similar thought... Only replace the NHL with I and owners with wife... And ladies, quadival is stunningly, like the Coyotes, still available.

That's what happening right now. Jamison is Hulsizer. Hulsizer is Jamison. The deep playoff run merely serves to make the timing of the inevitable sale collapse less suspicious looking. The Phoenix Coyotes will exist come October 2012. I'll lay actual money on that, as opposed to whatever Glendale's gambling with nowadays.

I wonder what the Professional Rioters? from last June are up to. Probably making it prohibitively difficult and unpleasant for me to take the train downtown on a nice day. No, don't worry, Metra's taken care of that before any of the brick-wielding anarchists had the chance. Turns out "The Way To Really Fly" may or may not involve a finger in your anus.

And so the municipal layoffs begin.

Given that the wearer would be a Cowboys fan, the odds of the wearer being a huge drunk are pretty good. The fonts on that knockoff are pretty accurate, but you can tell by all the buckling and bubbling in the photo, along with the thin jersey material, that the quality is substandard.

Also, remember that the one person who had both the money and leverage to make putting an NHL team in Hamilton a possibility has a whole lot less of both nowadays.

I think it's a safe assumption at this point that there will be a Phoenix Coyotes NHL franchise for 2012-13, whether or not games are played for the season. The timing of the Jamison announcement makes this last year's Hulsizer dog-and-pony show all over again. The specifics of the sale will get presented to the Glendale city council and be approved, the Goldwater Institute will step in and kindly remind all parties involved of Arizona's Gift clause (again), and the offer will fall apart without the promise of public subsidy, with league and city officials lamenting that they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling fiscal conservatives. Then, the league will announce that it's too late in the offseason to begin the process of finding an owner anew in time for 2012-13, so league ownership will regrettably continue for the forseeable future, and hey Glendale could you float another 25 million our way we're totally good for it kthxbai. The difference between this year and last is that this offseason does not appear to have the confluence of potential buyer (TNSE) and potential seller (Atlanta Spirit) both approaching their -or-get-off-the-pot moments. Quebecor isn't going to have that shiny new hockey palace up until 2015, so in the interim, this game can keep getting played until that crucial moment once again arises. And maybe by then, there's another team instead of the Coyotes that can be shuffled northward, perhaps after Bill Daly quietly purchase large blocks of tickets to several games at Nassau Coliseum and leaves them at Will Call under "Péladeau". The only thing that derails this is if the votes on the Glendale city council go from 4-3 to 3-4. One councilperson's change of heart gets the team and the league off the government teat and likely out of town, but I don't know the likelihood of that happening. I already look forward to next year's thread, and the creative titles it shall have.

Hey, the CFL is becoming counterfeit-worthy!

Have you looked at Blackberry stock lately? They're now behind Nunavut, which is putting together a preliminary bid for the Red Wings. Really looking forward the Kootenay Blackhawks, you guys. Wabush Blue Jackets! 2020 Stanley Cup Champions! Bring the Cup back to Kenora! Well, it's bold, but I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it italic.

Have you looked at Blackberry stock lately? They're now behind Nunavut, which is putting together a preliminary bid for the Red Wings. Really looking forward the Kootenay Blackhawks, you guys.

I would just like to state that if there was an investor who wanted to buy the Coyotes with 100% private funds and keep the team in Glendale without government subsidy, I'd be fine with it. Such a person has yet to materialize over the past three years, however.

So, the deal for Jamison would reportedly keep the Coyotes in Glendale for 21 years. $92 million for the first five, and then another $214 million over the next sixteen, for a total of $306 million in local government subsidies to a private business that has never turned a profit in its previous 16 years of existence. A near-broke municipality is willing to guarantee nearly a third of a billion dollars to an agreement where any and all returns on its investment would be indirect. If this is anything but a sports team, this gets universally decried as the dumbest goddamn idea ever. But hey, maybe this deal requires Jamison to make an effort to rename the team "Glendale Coyotes", so yay.

Seriously? He said he had a no-move clause and thus couldn't be made to move with the team and wouldn't; what that elbow-throwing gomer failed to grasp was that "no-move" refers to trades/releases/assignments, not relocations. Did he also mention the fact that he was basically anonymous in the city he'd played in for 14 years as a point of pride, or am I confusing him with someone else?

Lay off us mathletes! I was speaking from experience.

So, not only would Glendale have to dish out $92 million in subsidies over 5 years, but Ken Campbell of The Hockey News reports the deal on the table right now would leave Jamison free and clear after those five years to sell or move the team. Which means that, even if this passes the legal test (and it shouldn't, since it sounds like an ugly hybrid of the Reinsdorf and Hulsizer proposals), once 2017 rolls around, Here We'll Go Again.

Yes, nine posts above yours. A tentative deal? Haven't we been to this dance before? Yes, and at this point, a tentative deal carries all the positive certainty of the all-conference mathlete announcing his intentions to bang the prom queen. This is just something to juice ticket sales for the next round. Wake me when pen gets put to paper and Goldwater holds back their lawyers. If we end up with Les Blues, or Les Vestes Blues next season, this garage league isn't getting a damn dime from me. But hey, the league might take care of that for me this summer during the CBA talks.