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I'm not sure, but I THINK they have to honour the deadline. That being said they probably won't extend the deadline like the last council constantly did.

The display in the handshake line from last season's Western Conference Finals was particularly shameful. I played hockey all through high school and if we did anything more then smile and shake hands at the end of a game our coaches would chew us out. We were teenagers. This guy's in his mid thirties and championed by some as the model NHL captain. It was just sad to watch.

I imagine playing for the Coyotes is a lot like playing rec hockey at a suburban country club.

I hear what you're saying. My favourite part about all of that was when Shane Doan threatened to evoke his no trade clause if the team moved.

If Thrashers fans had been able to draw more than a dozen people to their "save the team" rally, I might agree with you. Regardless of what was happening in Phoenix, the Thrashers were gone. If not to Winnipeg, than somewhere else. Ownership didn't want the team any more, and there was no real indication that the city was any more interested than they were. Fatal combination. Solid points all around. Here's what I'm getting at. The Thrashers had an owner and the Coyotes had none. The sensible thing, from the NHL's perspective, would have been to sell off the team without an owner to the willing buyers (TNSE) and talk the Atlanta Spirit Group into keeping the team for one more year to see if a local buyer (or failing that, any buyer) can be found. It just seemed like the Thrashers' timetable was sped up to save the team that should have been moved up north.

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To be fair Turner owned the team when they were still the hot, new thing in Atlanta. The AS group took over after a few less then stellar seasons. The inability to put a winning team on the ice might have killed off the interest the market had for NHL hockey. Regardless I do believe the Thrashers deserved at least one more year, just to see if something could have been worked out. It seems painfully clear to me that the NHL sacrificed them to True North just to save the Great Arizona Hockey Experiment.

He's been on the verge of buying the team for months now. Unless he found another Middle Eastern oil tycoon to invest this is nothing new.

Not more outdated then the mid-2000s clown suits they wear now.

Yes, actually.

This just strengthens the theory I've been pushing. The theory that Bettman is moving heaven and earth to keep the team in Arizona purely out of stubborn pride. The NHL once welcomed the Yakuza into their ownership ranks. What's a middle eastern oil tycoon between friends, really?

Why. Those colors are much more industrial than the throwback colors, which is perfect for a team called the Oilers. The Houston/Tennessee Oilers got away with a supposedly industrial name while wearing powder blue and bright red. I'm not even sure if working on an oil rig is what comes to mind when I think "industrial." I think "auto factory" or "steel mill" before I think "oil rigs." The Oilers' royal blue and orange set represents one of the greatest teams to play hockey. The Oilers' navy and copper represents a 90s fashion trend associated with mediocrity and a Cup run that came up short because their starting and second string goalies both got injured in Game 1.

When this thing finally flies off the rails it's going to be bloody.

Mike Smith would make one hell of a crossing guard.

jeremythebadman? I don't think he's loooogodude. loooooooooooooooooogodude didn't do that weird thing jermey and oldschoolfan do where they leave a space between the end of their sentence and the period. Like this . I think they're both spammers myself. I don't think loooooooooooooooooooooooooogodude's been back since his well earned banishment.

I'm now awaiting the statement from Joyce Clark calling the Mayor a "Mexican-Canadian Sympathizer."

Well better late than never I suppose.

Well that's always been my problem with the pro-Coyotes crowd, at least the ones who post here. Most of them aren't even residence of Glendale, yet they support the city bankrupting itself to keep this team. Which I find especially hilarious when those same Coyotes fans say "it's not your business what an elected government that doesn't effect you decides to do with its money!" Um, it's not your business either! These Coyotes fans aren't effected by Glendale having to gut its municipal budget to keep this team around. They're more then willing to let a city they don't live in destroy itself, so long as it means they get to keep their hockey team. I'm not effected by Glendale's policies either, but at least my position isn't oblivious to municipal self-destruction out of petty self interest.

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So here's a thought.... Say the NHL cancels the full season (looking more and more likely). Does that kill the "we need the Coyotes to stay to save the mall!" argument the pro-Coyotes camp keeps trotting out? Also, I just realized how much that argument sounds like the plot to an 80s movie.

Agreed. It's so much better then the "space and old west" mashup look they had.