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Shame you can't target property tax hikes to individual households.

Let's just compromise on "Barracuda" (i.e. always use the scare quotes)

If Bettman et. al. go down to tax evasion, I will laaaauuuggghhhh

OK, here's the thing. Minor League hockey teams tend to lead a very precarious existence with a dependence on gate money that greatly exceeds the NHL. Weekend games do a heck of a lot better at the gate than week day games. So yeah, minor league teams do 3 in 3s all the time. That this has suddenly become an insurmountable burden is just another sign that the NHL's Western teams have no bloody clue how to run a minor league organization and should not be listened to in this case.

"But it gets boring seeing the same 4 teams all the time" "Tough man, it's an imperfect world and if some of you are claiming you actually intend to run these AHL teams as money-making ventures *glances at San Jose and Calgary*, well say hello to my friend, Archimedes.

I'm happy they found a conference...but were the NEC's expectations too lofty for them? That's not the case... this is easily a marriage of convenience. NJIT needed a home and the Atlantic Sun were a raid or two away from death. This works out big time for both parties. Well, you can forget about any good rivalries forming now...the NEC would've been CHOCK-full of them. Here's hoping this move is only temporary and NJIT goes to where it belongs. Actually, Burmy, the NEC probably wouldn't want them because NJIT doesn't play football. To be honest, based on their status as a public school without football, their most compatible home would likely be the America East Conference.

Nah. It'd kill the NHL in the Phoenix market, but it wouldn't impact franchise values overall by any stretch. Yeah, I agree. Why Glendale made the deal they did stupefies me, and I can't say I blame them for killing it the first chance they had. How this plays out who knows, but the best thing for everyone involved would be for the team to head north. Contraction/suspension also takes away playing opportunities for the union. There are available markets-it would be inconvenient as hell, but Portland and Quebec could take the team on minimal notice. Shut the team down, and the union flips out.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! http://www.tsn.ca/glendale-contemplates-arena-plans-without-coyotes-1.305719 I, um, don't think the NHL schedule is going to be ready to go in two weeks.

To address the specter of a new arena shared by the Coyotes and the Suns, I'm going to raise one question BTW: Is it actually in the Suns' (or ASU's, if they get involved) financial interest to bring in the Coyotes? Assuming they're running the arena, they might be leaving money on the table by having a hockey team chew up 40+ nights that could be used for more lucrative concerts and other events. I mean, the Kansas City and Houston experiences might be relevant here.

Fun fact: The Navajos couldn't vote in Arizona elections before 1948.

I'm pretty if they aren't the Nordiques, the only acceptable identity would be the Remparts.

The Quebec arena's slated to open in September. That won't happen because of the unbalanced conferences (besides, the Panthers are sitting and waiting for that arena to be done so they can move there in time for the 2016-17 season). Look for them to maybe (and that's a very big maybe with this vote coming up) play another year there then relocate to Las Vegas. If Vegas has a temporary place for them to play until this new one is done, then it might be another Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg situation. Actually the legal analyst on TSN made a very good observation. About 3 weeks before the Thrashers announced they were moving to Winnipeg, Bettman was commenting on reports about a possible Thrashers relocation and was adament that it was not happening. 3 weeks later, the Thrashers headed north. So if this vote goes against the Coyotes, expect to see many comments from Bettman saying there will be hockey in the desert next season following by an announcement of a relocation which will all be done in time for the draft. Columbus or Detroit (or better yet, both!) are going to have to come to grips with certain inconveniences about the league's overall geography. It won't be too bad for Detroit's fans-the post-Detroit diaspora means much of the fanbase lives in the Western Conference footprint now. I wonder if the last round of municipal bond offerings went catastrophically or something.

Oh God, the HF boards megathread has returned.

The Quebec arena's slated to open in September.

I'd say I haven't laughed this hard since the last time I saw Bruce Rauner use the phrase "good faith" but that's not really meaningful since I think that was earlier today. Still, while the Coyotes negotiations may have met the legal definition of good faith, it certainly never would have met any practical definition.

No, he is just simply advancing the interests of the white male cisgendered patriarchy.

No, Las Vegas has been taken semi-seriously because 1) The NHL has in the past proven to be this stupid and 2) The NHL won't shut up about Vegas.

Then tell Detroit or Columbus to get ing bent and return to the Western Conference.

Umm...Burmy, the waiting period isn't a bad idea. There are a couple of HBCUs in fairly recent memory that thought they could hack the jump, but it turns out they couldn't. One of those is closed completely. There are other tirefires also lurking around the bottom reaches of Division I that probably should not have made the move, but did anyway. I don't think jumps should be made any easier than they already are.

I'd put my money on UAB going to the Atlantic Sun as a halfway house. Northern Kentucky is more of a geographic fit in the Horizon League anyway. It's in a Cincinnati suburb.

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http://www.pjstar.com/article/20130427/NEWS/304279971/0/SEARCH I slightly misremembered. They looted the training equipment and a 50-inch TV from the locker room that the booster club bought for the team. The Blues did try to grab the lockers that had been installed in the last Civic Center renovation, at which point the Blues got the locks changed on them. The SPHL Rivs have had to make do with the equipment from the old ECHL Trenton team, which they were able to snap up when it folded.

The Blues would never be welcomed back into Peoria by the fans. Ehhh....AAA hockey is AAA hockey. Fans wouldn't be the issue. The Civic Center may be after the whole "ripped out everything that was nailed down in the locker room and paid for by the Civic Center when you grabbed the team" bit.

Are we seriously pretending Long Island is a town rather than a giant suburb?

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