The_Admiral

http://tvasports.ca/...305-180122.html Sure, I could just run it through Google Translate, but I gotta make sure I remember how to speak French. The mayor of Quebec City, Regis Labeaume, has announced on Monday in a council meeting that the municipality should go name an offer next April looking to the realization of the labor of the Colisee. The candidates will have to engage to respect the norms of the NHL during the labor. So, Quebec takes the forefront in the eventualty where a team in the league should install itself in the national capital. So basically, the city is going to approve a construction bid in a month and they're going to renovate the Colisee to NHL standards so that Quebec City is the leading candidate for the Coyotes. So hey, there we go.

http://www.azcentral...einsider/156367 Closing public libraries to subsidize sports teams is so damn American it makes me crap eagles.

Crown Their Ass was a de facto home game as well, but I don't think they've been back since. Goals will be awarded simply for gaining the blue line and still have 2-1 final scores. But, um, seriously, remember that time about a year ago that the MTS Centre underwent renovations to become NHL-compliant and nobody said it was a big deal?

The Colisee is officially being renovated to meet NHL specifications this summer.

Exactly. The Kings have never not been taking a cue from another Los Angeles team or another Kings team. That's why I threw the crap against the wall with a Tampa Maple Wings-esque just purple and just white. No one's doing that. Probably for good reason, but hey. Incidentally, the Bulls wear black and red to match the Blackhawks (I think the Wirtzes owned the Bulls early on, at any rate, the Chicago Stadium was probably full of red when the Bulls came in) and nobody seems to praise them for civic unity nor slag them for copying. Probably because red and black isn't as distinctive as purple and yellow with yellow as a base instead of white.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2012/02/21/20120221glendale-phoenix-coyotes-nhl-5-million.html oops

John Spano did some great due diligence on himself and found himself highly qualified! No no no I know they mean they're trying to make sure their investors have enough money, but is that the sort of thing you should have to do? If you have a really solid group of investors put together, then you shouldn't have to do that much work, one should have to think.

Oh, for Christ's sake, they've been telling us that some mystery billionaire is maybe about to step up in a week or two for three years now, and the asset has only gotten more and more toxic.

Red, black, and white are a striking color combination. Ask the White Stripes! Also, the pattern of alternating colors--black helmet, red sweater, black shorts, red socks--is pleasing to the eye, whereas teams in head-to-toe color can sometimes look like big blobs, especially in navy blue or black. In addition to that, you have the alternating black and white stripes. The additional colors on the Indian Head (copper, yellow, green, blue) also make it jump off the sweater in ways that logos restricted to sweater colors maybe don't. The numbers are white on red or black on white, very easy to read. All this chromatic contrast on the main two uniforms is why their thirds were so terrible: too much black, tan instead of white, couldn't read the numbers, the logo was inferior, etc, etc.

Pretty sure it's arena construction debt plus increased price points that are doing them in. After running a break-even operation at the Meadowlands, they raised prices without a commensurate raise in demand, and that never gets you anywhere good, certainly nowhere near paying off the $100 million it cost you to build the place.

I don't think the Devils are going anywhere simply because they're too valuable where they are, but the enormous debt they're in isn't going to be resolved by buying out a minority partner (well actually he's buying himself out, he's paying them $25 million to get out). They should not have built that arena.

I'm a Blackhawks fan, and the thirds were hideous and illegible. He's not wrong to say it.

Without an outline on the crest, the black of the logo gets lost on the black of the sweater, which makes it look like there are free-floating feathers. This photoshop doesn't show how bad it looks. I'm perfectly happy with the Hawks not wearing a third.

You know, if you had the thin staff lines in white and the bottom segment in yellow on that Blues sweater, it wouldn't have been bad for a '90s design. It would still look ridiculous and dated by about 2001, but at least it would keep yellow as the Blues' second color. Of course, I've always had a soft spot for red as a tertiary Blues color. Navy works too, but something about the red feels right to me. Why did they add "St. Louis" to the blue note, anyway? Was this something they did to re-assert their commitment after the near-move to Saskatoon? I remember the Predators made sure to put N A S H V I L L E above their logo on one of their ugly new Edge sweaters after they had one foot out the door to Hamilton in 2007.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/new-jersey-devils-looking-for-financial-miracle-011312 just keep pilin' on

http://interact.stlt...l#ixzz1jLN5GuQ6 ugh That makes three teams to have been under league control this year (Coyotes, Blues, and the Stars till their sale closed). This looks so bad, especially when it's one of the best teams in the league being paid for by the rest of the league.

My intentions were good.

Wrong again, Lights Oot. The side panels are ugly, the color scheme was one red/black team too many for a team that was already so well established as royal blue and gold, the goat head is ugly, and the shoulder yoke going so low as to include the nameplate was a bad idea.

The idea is that you raise your arms in victory after a win or goal and show off your glorious armpits of triumph. One of the dumbest uniform idiosyncrasies around.

Look, I'm sorry, but I'm still not over the fact that this has gone on for four months without anybody figuring out that they got the guy's name wrong. Imagine if panic broke out among NFL observers because some sports talk host said the villain from Mortal Kombat was going to buy the Rams or Jaguars and nobody said anything.

these HFboards posters shouldn't be allowed out of the house without diapers on. Get a load of this: What? Occam's Razor, you retard. Greg Jamison has nothing to do with this, considering that no one has ever heard from Greg Jamison himself regarding such a transaction; it has only been attributed to him because some talk radio chucklehead in Phoenix misspelled the Canadian guy's name. Also, the talk about Jamison "going to Europe to find investors" aligns with this scam. I'm amused by the fact that Sharks Guy never bothered to categorically deny that he was buying the Coyotes. Too polite?

http://ca.linkedin.c...mieson/1/5B8/58 Yeah. They had the wrong name all along. This went on for four months and nobody ever did anything about it. Weep for American journalism. Doing some googling, and I haven't found anything where Greg Jamison himself is quoted as being interested in the team. It's all just third-hand stuff. from ESPN: And we all know how stupid the Ice Edgers were. from Fox Sports: Well heck, if they're getting it from Glendale, no way they'll make a mistake with the names oh

The best part is that this wasn't Greg Jamison from the San Jose Sharks, this was a guy from Winnipeg named Garry Jamieson. Someone got the name wrong this whole time and nobody fact-checked. Only the goddamned NHL. wherein the Krusty Burglar is the credibility of the league and its reporters

Oh hey, Matt Hulsizer's exclusive negotiation period is almost up, at which point it would ostensibly be Tom Stillman's turn to make an offer for the rest of the team. I'd feel much better about, well, anyone who's not Hulsizer. http://www.truehocke...ticles/Now-What EDIT (recycle a post, save an e-tree): Something happened. http://courthousenew...12/30/42657.htm Too bad, the NHLBOG could've used a deposed Nigerian prince to increase its credibility.

I'm trying to do the math on the Coyotes here. The NHL lost $16 million on them last year. Add that to the $25 million subsidy and that means the Coyotes lost $41 million. Payroll for last year was about $50.5 million. I don't know what travel costs and other operating expenses would be, but payroll would have to be the lion's share, right? So how low must their revenues be to spend relatively little and still lose that much? Everyone keeps saying the NHL needs to lower the sale price in order to close the sale. There's one particular imbecile at HFBoards who keeps repeating "blwehhh, ya, alls they need to do is apply that TNSE relo fee and pay down the LOC " but that isn't the issue. People can come up with the money to buy the team. The NHL could offer to sell the team for a dollar if they wanted. The problem is that nobody wants to assume the present and future debt associated with owning this team. It's like the old joke about the guy who buys a Ferrari and can't afford to pull it out of the driveway. It's such a losing proposition.