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Never a team in Hamilton? I thought they were right after Quebec City in the race to Make It 30.

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!

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Well, it's bold, but I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it italic.

Never a team in Hamilton? I thought they were right after Quebec City in the race to Make It 30.

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.

Shane Doan threw a huge bitch fit and threatened not to report to Winnipeg if the team moved there, any talk of the Coyotes handling their uncertainty with quiet dignity can be shoved up an array of asses.

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?

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.

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.

Not sure if posted yet, but...

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=395274

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.

who will be the sacrificial lamb so the yotes can stay one more year.

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.

Which they can't consummate because the powerful bread lobby Goldwater Institute is stopping their research subsidies.

Yeah, I don't understand how this is legal under Arizona's Gift Clause with the city still giving a private owner $17 million a year. There's gotta be some end-around in the details, or this thing just gets crushed again.

Honestly, what's everybody's issue if a legitimate owner willing to take over and run the team buys the Coyotes and keeps them in Glendale? If it's true, I'm happy they're finding a legitimate owner who can hopefully make it work.

Mark my words, if this sale to Jamison goes through, the team will be in this situation again before you graduate college. I will bet actual monies.

Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs thinks "Phoenix is a Dallas".

I think Mr. Jacobs fails to realize that Glendale isn't a Phoenix.

What was the hot dog's problem, anyway? Does it want to be on the burger too?

Remember when you could play BurgerTime on this site? I was pretty awesome at it.

The first time I had a fried egg on top of a burger, I realized that the chef in that game was the one with the real problem.

Nah, he was just ahead of his time.

Yeah, but in the game, he was trying to keep the fried eggs away from the burgers. And pickles, too! Man, that chef sucked.

You think you're seeing lack of respect now, just wait until the CBA meetings.

What was the hot dog's problem, anyway? Does it want to be on the burger too?

Remember when you could play BurgerTime on this site? I was pretty awesome at it.

The first time I had a fried egg on top of a burger, I realized that the chef in that game was the one with the real problem.

''(Barclays Center) was made for hockey and basketball,'' Ratner told the Associated Press. ''It could easily support a hockey team.''

Unless you're talking about an AHL team, your seating diagrams say otherwise, Chachi.

Councilwoman Yvonne Knaack explained her 'yes' vote.

"We own that arena," she said. "We have the debt regardless of the Coyotes. The best case scenarios is the Coyotes stay here to play the games and bring 500,000 people to the arena."

500,000 people. That's 12,000 a game. The "best case scenario" involves being dead last in league attendance by a wide margin. Keep on reaching for the stars, Yvonne.

These people are dumber than dog .

Good point - games against Chicago and Detroit are reportedly very lucrative for the Coyotes, not so much Nashville.

Yeah, but the team hasn't been out of the first round in Phoenix. Who knows how they'll react ticket wise to the second round, Nashville or not.

Depends on if there's construction on Loop 101. Or if it's a weeknight. Or if "The Voice" is on.

This time, they swear it's Greg Jamison, not Garry Jamieson.

Whoever it is, I wonder if he'll be wearing the same hat and jersey they gave Matthew Hulsizer last year, when he was the designated playoff prop.

Here they come!!

Wow. That took a week.

Bear in mind that the forthcoming lockout could give the league another full year of wiggle room.

I agree Brooklyn is always an option, but only for the short-term. They'd need to have the arena deal in place before moving in to a facility with such a limited capacity, lest they be stuck there.

Tickets for the Islanders-Devils exhibition game went on sale today - here's the seating map on the ticket page:

Oh Jesus H. That's not a long-term solution for the Islanders, that's KeyArena lite. Who builds a basketball arena in 2012?

Didn't we find out after the fact though that Atlanta's players got wind of a likely move back in February?

Yes. The word was that Dustin Byfuglien signed his contract extension with the Thrashers (on February 15th) because he was told by ownership that all signs pointed to the team moving to Winnipeg, bringing him back closer to home where he could drunkenly boat about and whatnot. To some degree, this might also explain the bottom dropping out of the team's performance during that February.

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I'm guessing the dogs count toward the attendance figures, then.

Anyway, this press conference is probably just to say they have the arena stuff figured out, finally. I doubt they're going to come right out and say "nous avons acheté les Coyotes," because that would make the NHL very mad. I guess Quebecor people are gonna be there, though.

Yeah, there's no way anything concrete gets announced before the Coyotes' season is officially over. Today's presser will be all about laying out plans, intentions, and what they hope to accomplish. No mention will be made of any specific team, lest ownership even faintly come across as the second coming of the Hamilton Predators.

And besides that, I'm still willing to put even odds on them not getting the Coyotes.