The_Admiral

If you understand it as a convoluted legal plot to make this deadbeat stop embarrassing them by giving him a series of unattainable goals, it makes perfect sense. The "Coyotes history" will be consigned to the same basement file cabinet as the Thrashers' history; the only question is whether they sort out the Jets' lineage while they're at it now that nothing matters anymore.

Look who has thoughts! It's Joyce Clark! If it weren't 80 out, I could do this all day. This blog has it all. Steadfast belief that Glendale would have worked? If you ignore over $100 million in taxpayer subsidies, sure. Forgetting that the Coyotes made the playoffs three years, not one? Oh yeah. Botching a pretty common figure of speech? I wouldn't expect anything less!

I wonder how many of the characters are dead.

3 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

One of the big reveals is when we find out Logan Wade was at January 6th.

LITTLE LOGAN WADE! God, all the names are burbling back up. My Coyotes-saga life is flashing before my eyes.

Remember the lawyer for the city of Glendale and also the Coyotes who negotiated the Coyotes' lease while working for the city and then went to to work for the Coyotes, which got the lease cancelled? That didn't kill them either!

Sounds like the Jazz will run the business side of the team now, the way apparently the SacKings are going to run the A's (THAT'LL GO GREAT). 

Reminder that Meruelo was going to buy the Atlanta Hawks right after Atlanta Spirit unloaded the Thrashers but Stern's NBA vetted him and decided he was a dope and a fraud and told him to get lost. Then he regrouped, made a play for the Coyotes, then on their third permutation of ownership since the league sold them, and Bettman was like "I don't see any problems here." Who could have seen that a professional sports team would resort to playing dine-and-dash with team meals? Well, a handful of accounting and law firms in Manhattan, presumably.

15 hours ago, BBTV said:

People who want to are just going to do it illegally (and get their legs broken when they can't pay their losses), so might as well legalize it, regulate it, and tax it.  It's not for me, but someone with a problem is either going to lose their house legally, or lose it illegally, which leads to even worse things.

 

No need to waste limited resources stopping things that can't be stopped, so just make it as "safe" as possible, and instead of spending money policing it, make money by taxing it.  

This is the same bare utilitarianism behind marijuana legalization and I would argue that both have made life a little more sad, crass, and gross. Picture a subway tunnel plastered in DraftKings billboards reeking of stale pot smoke. Is this progress?

They could go with the "Utah Salt Barons" and accidentally get invited to join the WHL. That would actually work out, because the WHL and Utah both love having dudes named "Paxtyn" and "Kristansyn."

I thought there was potential in "Red Rocks" until I realized that's just Scooby-Doo saying "Red Sox."

Again, now's the time to put all the Winnipeg NHL records under the current Jets organization and have the Phoenix history separate.

What in the WordArt is going on with that header? Is that italic and an arch at the same time?

1 hour ago, RyanMcD29 said:

Because this couldn't get more YOTES, this delayed statement STILL HAS THE CURSOR LEFT ON

This reminds me of the Matt Hulsizer Fax Machine

1 hour ago, gosioux76 said:

I think small markets are actually the way to go for the NHL. I don’t see the league getting more popular as time goes on. I think moving into markets where it’s No. 1 or 2 in the local sports hierarchy is the most logical move. 

Thanks for reminding me that this team has to compete with BYU/UofU football too. But then, as I've said before, the BYU/Coyotes overlap is probably going to be very thin.

awesomeballs

3 minutes ago, TBGKon said:

Yes, buy Salt Lake had something most of those other places may not have currently had.....an owner that was ready to move quickly.

Balsillie would have had the Coyotes ready to go in Hamilton for 2009-10. Winnipeg was 15 minutes away from announcing the move in spring 2010. Quebecor got the Colisee back up to NHL standards in anticipation. The moving trucks were bound for Seattle.

It's not a matter of logistics. It's that now and only now, after getting evicted from their arena, losing a vote for a new one, and not having their crap together for a different new one, that Bettman lost faith in them or the board lost faith in Bettman. This was a 15-year passion project on the part of the commissioner's office that was put to an end.

22 minutes ago, PrimalCookie said:

Cities that tried to get the Coyotes but failed:

- Kansas City
- Hamilton

- Winnipeg

- Seattle

- Quebec City

- Houston

- Likely more that I’m forgetting/we don’t know about

The city that finally got them:

- Salt Lake City

You forgot Portland in the early 2000s, had the Coyotes not gotten the Glendale arena. We could have avoided this whole thing.

I always wanted green and brown for a Milwaukee NHL team. Voyageurs or something.

Did we talk about what ever happened to George Gosbee, the person who first bought the Coyotes out of league ownership?

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-gosbee

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The death sent shockwaves through the Calgary and Canadian business community. How could a celebrated businessman, who seemingly had everything, take his own life?

 

George had attempted to kill himself many times before, according to the book. When he finally did, Karen describes it later as “a relief.” This shocking revelation — something most people would never admit to even if they thought it — is an indication of just how raw and honest this book is. It’s clear the rose-coloured glasses and the spray-on tans designed to try to keep George happy are no longer something Karen Gosbee is willing to accept.

 

Karen, now 50, may have allowed her husband to abuse her, call her vulgar names, push her, punch her in the face, choke her and engage in numerous affairs throughout their 23-year marriage, but she has definitely found her voice — and it’s a strong one — in the pages of this tell-all book that is as disturbing as it is informative and potentially useful for others who have family members struggling with addictions and mental health challenges. Helping others who live with loved ones struggling with mental health and addictions issues is, she says, the purpose of her book and is where she has been focusing her attention since her husband’s death.

 

. . . 

 

George was given a Rolex by his parents when he graduated from university and he grew obsessed with luxury watches, buying himself many.

 

“George knew that he had only scratched the surface of the luxury watch world. He told me that, when he had more money, he would buy himself more expensive watches and a Bentley. In the meantime, he saw himself as sacrificing his material ambitions to provide for the family by ‘making do’ with fakes.

 

George was introduced to the world of fake luxury watches on a trip to China in 2010, and went crazy buying replicas of all the brands he could not afford. Unfortunately, he was called out on one of his shooting trips for having a fake Patek Philippe 5270P Chronograph (the real thing retails for $192,780). An oil executive explained that the mechanics of George’s watch were not real, that the date should show the month as well as the day, and that the face size was a little larger than normal. George was embarrassed and somehow, when he came home, it became my fault. It didn’t stop him from buying the fakes, however. He refreshed his large counterfeit collection on later trips to China, although he only did so with mid-luxury watches: not the high-end variety, where the differences were easier to spot.”

I'm sorry I asked. The domestic abuse is appalling, but "my undoing was my addiction to counterfeit luxury watches" is platonic-ideal OITGDNHL.

13 minutes ago, Sport said:

A thing I think is interesting is most people's response has been "ahh yeah well probably for the best" Very few people defending Phoenix.

Not on this board, no, but the ass-grabbers on reddit are all holding each other and weeping about how Phoenix is really a great market that was done wrong by a horrible league that just gave up too soon. I get annoyed but then it's possible some of them are 14 years old and literally were not alive when Jerry Moyes first :censored:ed off.

Yeah, that's the other one. Arlington Heights will be worth it in the end because we'll get a WrestleMania. Maybe ours will set the record with 50 run-ins in a single match.

6 hours ago, GFB said:

You could get away with a name like Clippers or Barons or Zephyrs decades ago, but in the era of Kraken and Wild and Lightning it has to be something more exciting to capture the public interest.

THE UTAH SANDWORMS! THE SPICE MUST FLOW! 

On 4/11/2024 at 10:10 AM, spartacat_12 said:

Based on the reporting, it seems like the league is trying to come up with a deal that allows them to move the team without risking being sued by Moruelo. Part of that deal likely involves preserving the branding for the imaginary future franchise (which will most likely never see the ice).

At that point they're halfway to a Charlotte Hornets retcon where they could reunify the NHL Winnipeg histories and declare the 1996-2024 franchise to be something new to be resumed.

I'm still waiting on the Seattle Supersonics that the Thunder have just been hanging onto in the meantime, by the way.

How many March Madnesseseseseseses are there that every Hooterville in America thinks they can justify building a domed stadium by getting one? I might argue that it's unwise to create a race to the bottom that Indianapolis and New Orleans will generally win anyway.

Man. Salt Lake City. The league is a Portland/Austin expansion away from an in-season tournament for smug transplant cities.

Lest you think that the good guys won in any way here, Alex Meruelo is being rewarded with a billion dollars for not paying his taxes. Somewhere in Scottsdale, Jerry Reinsdorf is like "this guy is stealing my ideas!"

16 minutes ago, neo_prankster said:

At this point, Bettman should just let the Yotes move without a league vote.

I almost wonder if the league just voted to move Bettman.

Friedman deleted that tweet but added a new one saying roughly the same thing.

Let's not forget that the Coyotes once came 15 minutes away from death and escaped, but this really might be it.