mattwswfc

Anyone know when and where Nordiques Nation will be making an appearance this year?

There have probably been at least six "final and ultimate" deadlines to secure ownership since this whole debacle started. And yet, here we sit. If the NHL doesn't get their owner by early '12, they'll set a new deadline for, say, June of '12. This is known in American slang as "kicking the can down the road." So basically we could be here till the new Quebec City Arena is built before the NHL finally gives in and works out that nobody wants the Coyotes and that they have to move on....

Sorry I must have read it wrong then about how much Quebecor was paying. Yeah I don't understand how it can cost nearly $40 million dollars more than the Bell Centre, and it holds 3,000 less. It's gonna be a real ball ache for QC to pay taxes on a state of the art arena, that's best action will be junior hockey and community events!

Just found this: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=378347 Basically the NHL are giving 2 owners (one being reins died) till about early 2012, then if nothing comes about by then, then I suppose the NHL will put the Coyotes on the open market.... If the TML won't allow a team about 50 miles away in Hamilton, why would they allow a new team within the same city. Especially if that said team is planning to build a 30,000 seat arena, just a pipe dream for some. I mean reinsdorf not reins died. Dam you iPhone spell checker....

I'm sure I saw a post on here about what percentage of the $400 million Quebecor are willing to offer, something about between $100-200 million from Quebecor, depending on the arena's use. So my theory is the people of Quebec City and the rest of the province don't want to pay taxes for a $400 million arena, if they're paying it all on there own. If QC can secure an NHL team before say 2013, then Quebecor could pay a substantial amount of that $400 million (up to 50%), making the average Quebecois taxpayer happy and hockey fans extremely happy knowing they have a team back. If they do get a team sooner than 2015 then it could be a possibility playing in the Colisee Pepsi, or whatever its called these days, for a season or 2 until they move into their new arena. If QC get a team before then it could concrete the planned arena and risk it falling through.

Yeah I understand that. But correct me if I'm wrong, Toronto regularly sell out Air Canada Centre, another team in GTA/Southern Ontario could possibly give the fans another team to cheer for, instead of waiting for the most demanded tickets in the NHL. There is obviously market for another team in that region and it could be possible, maybe a different potential owner and not Jim Balsillie, because I think all bridges were burned last time round. Quebec City looks like, from your summary, the top contender then....

It's quite a shock that the Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks, 2 of the best teams in the NHL today, are operating at a loss. What must Mr. Bettman think to these figures.... Honestly he has got to open his eyes soon and see that you can't force a market for hockey in a market that doesn't particularly care for, or know about for that matter, it. He has got to look at markets in North America that do care for hockey, with passion, and seriously consider putting a team there. If these teams that are losing vast amounts of money every year were located in a so called 'hockey hotbed' then they would be doing better financially, would they not? If there are less teams losing money then surely it benefits the other teams and the rest of the league. They rest of the league cannot possibly want the NHL to stay in Arizona, not if they are losing vast amounts of money, which is being subsidised by the league and inevitably coming from the teams themselves. Just move the team up North or to a stronger market down South and be done with it. Why not Houston? Hamilton? Quebec City? Even Portland, Oregon? I am afraid it hasn't worked in Phoenix or ever will do. Sorry Gary but it's time to pack up and leave, learn from your mistakes and flourish.