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So I guess investors that want to move the team north of the border should be able to soon? Or is there more red tape that needs to be cleared with before that?

Now that Seattle is back in play, thereby giving Bettman another US market to fall back on, the odds of the Coyotes ending up in Quebec probably just dropped by an order of magnitude.

Depends on if there's a willing ownership group there.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Hansen willing? Or did he just want a team to move into his new arena?

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So I guess investors that want to move the team north of the border should be able to soon? Or is there more red tape that needs to be cleared with before that?

Now that Seattle is back in play, thereby giving Bettman another US market to fall back on, the odds of the Coyotes ending up in Quebec probably just dropped by an order of magnitude.

Depends on if there's a willing ownership group there.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Hansen willing? Or did he just want a team to move into his new arena?

I'm not 100% on that. There were a couple potential Seattle ownership groups before Hansen emerged, and some said that they had no interest in NHL hockey. Hansen, if I remember correctly, said he was open to it, but he wasn't willing to bring in NHL hockey before landing an NBA team.

Which isn't the most ringing endorsement one could hope for.

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So I guess investors that want to move the team north of the border should be able to soon? Or is there more red tape that needs to be cleared with before that?

Now that Seattle is back in play, thereby giving Bettman another US market to fall back on, the odds of the Coyotes ending up in Quebec probably just dropped by an order of magnitude.

Depends on if there's a willing ownership group there.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Hansen willing? Or did he just want a team to move into his new arena?

I'm not 100% on that. There were a couple potential Seattle ownership groups before Hansen emerged, and some said that they had no interest in NHL hockey. Hansen, if I remember correctly, said he was open to it, but he wasn't willing to bring in NHL hockey before landing an NBA team.

Which isn't the most ringing endorsement one could hope for.

At one point, the city wouldn't allow the arena to move forward unless it had both an NBA and NHL team on board. Then everyone realized that no one gives a :censored: about the NHL (and I mean that in the best way), and common sense moved forward.

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and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags

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Don Levin, owner of the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves, has expressed an interest in owning a Seattle-based National Hockey League franchise.

Initially, Levin was focused on owning an NHL team that would operate out of a proposed arena in Bellevue, Washington. However, he has since made it known that he would be open to setting-up shop in Chris Hansen's proposed Seattle arena.

In February of last year, Levin told the Globe and Mail: "If he's successful, I'd be very happy to be involved. I told [Hansen] if he has something put together I would be interested."

Levin is the principal in Glenview, Illinois-based DRL Enterprises, a company with holdings in a variety of industries including tobacco processing, aircraft and medical equipment leasing, manufacturing and distribution of licensed sports products, and motion picture production and distribution.

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Don Levin, owner of the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves, has expressed an interest in owning a Seattle-based National Hockey League franchise.

Initially, Levin was focused on owning an NHL team that would operate out of a proposed arena in Bellevue, Washington. However, he has since made it known that he would be open to setting-up shop in Chris Hansen's proposed Seattle arena.

In February of last year, Levin told the Globe and Mail: "If he's successful, I'd be very happy to be involved. I told [Hansen] if he has something put together I would be interested."

That's not what he told the Seattle Times this week:

Don Levin, a Chicago businessman and minor-league hockey team owner who has said he would be interested in helping bring the NHL to Seattle, said Monday he is not currently involved in any efforts to procure a team to play in the new arena, or anywhere else.

Levin said he had been in contact with potential developers of an arena in Bellevue but said Monday, "Bellevue has bailed. What we thought was a deal didn't happen. So I am nowhere."

Levin said he was informed of that news in an email last week.

He said he would remain interested in helping Hansen get a team, but said, "I have had no (recent) contact with Chris. He has probably worked with some other people."

Hansen has said he would not want to own an NHL team but would help facilitate efforts to bring one to Seattle.

"When I spoke to him at some point in the past, he said there were other people interested, so I'm sure he is (pursuing a team with other owners)," Levin said

1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said:

and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags

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Seattle trails Quebec City in every metric you could use to determine where the NHL should go next, except the ever-important "not being Canadian" metric, where Seattle holds a commanding infinity-to-nothing lead.

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Seattle trails Quebec City in every metric you could use to determine where the NHL should go next, except the ever-important "not being Canadian" metric, where Seattle holds a commanding infinity-to-nothing lead.

Quebec City is a market guaranteed to support hockey and support it well. Seattle is a market that has heretofore shown ambivalent interest in an NHL franchise and may well be too tapped to do so (NFL/MLB/MLS/NBA/NCAAF/NCAAM is A LOT!).

The NHL is stupid, so.

1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said:

and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags

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Quebec City also offers a national francophone television contract like what the Canadiens have, revenues from a team-owned network (or a network-owned team), they'll be the anchor tenant in a new arena, and they'll be an eighth Canadian team just in time for the Canadian networks to re-up their TV deals.

They speak French, though! Fun fact: the penalty for "roughing" translates to Quebec French as "rudesse." You are sent to the box for rudeness. I love it. Hockey just sounds so right in French, I don't know what it is.

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They speak French, though! Fun fact: the penalty for "roughing" translates to Quebec French as "rudesse." You are sent to the box for rudeness. I love it. Hockey just sounds so right in French, I don't know what it is.

Not quite... Rudeness, in French, would be "grossièreté". Rudesse really translates to roughing as it is a physical act, whereas grossièreté is more of a verbal act.

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They speak French, though! Fun fact: the penalty for "roughing" translates to Quebec French as "rudesse." You are sent to the box for rudeness. I love it. Hockey just sounds so right in French, I don't know what it is.

Not quite... Rudeness, in French, would be "grossièreté". Rudesse really translates to roughing as it is a physical act, whereas grossièreté is more of a verbal act.

I think he was saying rudesse when said sounds like rudeness.

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I remembered learning "rudesse." Google Translate gives "harshness," "roughness," "brusqueness," and yes, "rudeness" as acceptable translations, Considering that it's for the roughing penalty, it's appropriately vague.

Edmonton just approved a new arena for the Oilers, partial funding from the city and possibly province (though I wouldn't bet on that). Detroit and Calgary are the last cities left that "need" new buildings.

EDIT: http://www.hockeyfig...anslator-73683/

Here's a list of everything! Interesting that most of them are in past tense or infinitive. "Fighting" is "fought, stop of game." Third Man In is "to remain on the lines of battle."

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Just dropped in on Beej-Yotes and holy guacamole there's no one sitting in the ends. Bucfan, did you pick up those $3 seats I linked you to?

I'm watching the Columbus feed because I have something resembling a severe allergic reaction to Tyson Nash's voice. They're not bad. Pretty boring. At least there's no Tyson Nash.

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Haha no. It's Blue Jackets vs Coyotes. I think a day spent at the DMV updating an overdue registration would be more fun.

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Just dropped in on Beej-Yotes and holy guacamole there's no one sitting in the ends. Bucfan, did you pick up those $3 seats I linked you to?

I'm watching the Columbus feed because I have something resembling a severe allergic reaction to Tyson Nash's voice. They're not bad. Pretty boring. At least there's no Tyson Nash.

The dreaded Nash Rash.

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They're trying really hard not to show how empty the place is. Usually where a hockey telecast would pan the crowd or do a wide shot of the arena (sponsorship messages, promotions, programming schedules, etc) they just go to a static shot of lights or scaffolding or anything that's not the crowd. OITGDNHL

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Ha, I noticed that too. Time to pull a WCW and have everybody move to one side of the arena.

"Get me a crowd shot." "There's no crowd!"

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For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

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If the Blackhawks get to be the nWo, I'm in.

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On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

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