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So according to his Wiki, he tried three times, one of them the Coyotes in 2009. Each time the NHL said no.

After we crown a new (or repeat if Denver does it again) NBA Champion, many of its players will be off until training camps but quite a few of them will be representing their countries in the Olympics. It will be 32 years since the very first Dream Team of NBA Legends and Christian Laettner competed in the Olympics.

Wasn't there a guy trying to bring the NHL to Hamilton a long time ago, only for the NHL to stop him?

He is the other one. Also if his league fails, he's going to blame the NFL for his league failing.

A few Bucks fans I know blame the Doc Rivers hiring on two of the owners: Jimmy and Dee Haslam. Yes, the same owners who gave Deshaun Watson a $250 million guaranteed contract.

It only has to be enough to get approval from the Players Association for those three years.

It's been a while since I posted about this moron: Says his goal is to make MLFB the best football league in America and that they will be better than the NFL. In other words, he's a delusional schmuck.

Lakers and Warriors are in the play-in tournament......one of them is going to make a deep run aren't they?

The seating capacity at Ford Field is 61,000.

It's going to cause a domino effect in minor league hockey since the Grizzlies are the ECHL affiliate of the Avalanche.

She does the Coyotes podcast on PHNX and the other day, they were doing a stream about the visit of the GM to the players informing them of the move. She usually moderates and watches chat and someone asked Craig Morgan about why Suns owner Matt Ishbia did not buy the Coyotes to save them from this move and Morgan said it was too expensive for Ishbia.

Interesting that there are no rumors about Panther City yet. On a lacrosse message board, one poster suggested the idea of the team moving across the DFW Metroplex to Frisco and the Comerica Center, which only seats 3,500. If that happens, they would still be last in attendance, but it wouldn't be as jarring as it is at Dickies Arena, which seats 14,000. It's only a suggestion, so not sure if it's actually going to happen.

The Islanders are in nearby Nassau County.

So apparently, the NYCFC Soccer stadium only needs the mayor to sign off before official groundbreaking. That seems likely since he's in support of this stadium since the start.

At least give the fans in Arizona some hope, so yes.

The thing is though is that Sutter Health Park only needs to do enough renovations to get the approval of the Players Association. Sahlen Field in Buffalo had to undergo renovations before the MLBPA signed off on it as the temporary home of the Blue Jays due to travel restrictions. The fact that they have been completely silent about the A's move to Sacramento and yet they have been outspoken about the uniforms and the large amount of pitching injuries is interesting.

The fact that he doesn't deny the rumors is telling. What he should have said is "I am fully committed to keeping the NHL and the Coyotes in Arizona" but instead he dances around saying that he isn't allowed to make any public comments at this point.

The likely rationale for Houston in the NHL is that "if hockey can work in Dallas, it can work in Houston" and the NHL wants that Dallas vs. Houston rivalry. If that turns out to be the main reason for a team in Houston, it's a stupid and short-sighted reason. One of the reasons the NHL worked in Dallas right away was because the team was competitive to start. Were there seasons where they weren't great? Yes there were, but they were never bad enough to where attendance was a disaster. Their worst season was 1995-1996 when they won 26 games in a full season. Otherwise, they've either been at .500 or a few games below it in their three decades. There's no guarantee Houston will be a success in the NHL as the Stars have been. The success of the Stars have resulted in a state sanctioned high school hockey league in the DFW area and places known as StarCenters, which serve as community centers for ice skating and ice hockey. It also led to the arrival of the Allen Americans of the ECHL, in the suburb of Allen, Texas.

Seattle and Winnipeg did eventually get NHL teams. Salt Lake City out of the running gives Houston a legit shot for an expansion team. And the Nordiques will probably be back whenever Atlanta 3 fails again after a decade.

I heard on PHNX that Ryan Smith plans on rebranding the team once his purchase of the team is finalized.

And this eliminates the state of Utah from MLB expansion.....I think.

My reason for skepticism from Houston is the mindset that "if the NHL can work in Dallas, it can work in Houston"

I am a little skeptical about Houston.