The_Admiral Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 Location's not any more right for the AHL than Abbotsford was. They're at home in the Dub with bus rides around the prairies. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypower Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 The Saskatoon arena is in a weird spot too if you're coming from the city. It's almost outside city limits and it's between two highways leading out of the city so you have to pass the arena and then backtrack on a side road. And one of highways makes it so you have to cross the other side of the highway and then backtrack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FGM13 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Nothing will supplant the Roughriders in Saskatchewan. Quote GO OILERS-GO BLUE JAYS-GO ESKIMOS-GO COLTS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypower Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Nothing will supplant the Roughriders in Saskatchewan. And even then, it's the whole province. Once a week games means that people here in Saskatoon and the other towns can drive up to Regina and watch the game.A hockey team that has to fill 41+ dates each year isn't going to work in Saskatchewan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysleraspen08 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Nothing will supplant the Roughriders in Saskatchewan.And even then, it's the whole province. Once a week games means that people here in Saskatoon and the other towns can drive up to Regina and watch the game.A hockey team that has to fill 41+ dates each year isn't going to work in Saskatchewan.Plus the Roughriders play in the summer too, and the driving would be much easier then compared to in the winter. 1 Quote Sporting Venue Count (for games): OHL: 19 (28 Total)- 770 games (after 18-19), MLB: 13 (15 Total), NHL: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanMcD29 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Hey look! Phoenix Arizona possibly changing hands again! http://nypost.com/2014/10/02/spurned-islanders-buyer-to-purchase-coyotes-instead/ Quote Twitter: @RyanMcD29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 The Coyotes lost $24 million last season, and are for sale again. Get your calliopes.http://nypost.com/2014/10/02/spurned-islanders-buyer-to-purchase-coyotes-instead/ Quote 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. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 ARE YOU FUUUUUCKING KIDDING ME. Sigh, well, I do as I'm told: Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Sources further report Barroway, a Philadelphia-based hedge fund manager, is buying 51 percent based on a recent $305 million valuation of the franchise, which was purchased by RSE for a reported $170 million. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 This happened so fast. Holy crap. I hope they spend countless millions rebranding to the Arizona Coyotes, so that by this time next year there will be thousands of poverty-stricken children in 3rd world countries running around in oversized Arizona Coyotes tees. Quote Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 How the hell is it that one year after the NHL had to beg for someone to buy the team for $170M, now someone willingly steps forward to buy half the team for $150M???Edit: Also, who's doing the assessment when a team sells for $170M, writes a big red $24M on the ledger book and increases in value to $305M despite no real hope of ever earning a profit in their current location? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 The Coyotes lost $24 million last season, and are for sale again. Get your calliopes.http://nypost.com/2014/10/02/spurned-islanders-buyer-to-purchase-coyotes-instead/You have got to be kidding me...Though to IceArizona's credit, they should be walking away with a nice profit despite the losses they incurred last year.Also I completely missed that the Jobberdome was renamed Gila River Arena. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Remember, IceArizona owns little of the team themselves. Most of the money for the purchase came from the NHL and an investment bank. Given that Count seems to have brokered this deal to get Barroway off Charles Wang's ass, I'm guessing it concerns the league's ongoing stake in the team more than Gosbee and the assorted Alberta pretenders. Maybe they used this money to pay the NHL back. Who knows. It has to be more complicated than flipping a team in one year and getting a huge ROI. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Remember, IceArizona owns little of the team themselves. Most of the money for the purchase came from the NHL and an investment bank. Given that Count seems to have brokered this deal to get Barroway off Charles Wang's ass, I'm guessing it concerns the league's ongoing stake in the team more than Gosbee and the assorted Alberta pretenders. Maybe they used this money to pay the NHL back. Who knows. It has to be more complicated than flipping a team in one year and getting a huge ROI.If they lost $24 million over the last year... aren't they halfway to the $50 million barrier before we're back into relocation mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I think they have to go the full five years, regardless of how quickly they hit the $50 million of red ink. Unless they renegotiate with Glendale's city council, which can never be ruled out. Quote 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. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 If they lost $24 million over the last year, then they're the worst businessmen of all time and should never be allowed around legal tender again. The organization actually seemed to function relatively well, though they did fail miserably at the whole arena-management thing for which they are paid handsomely because I'm pretty sure they still only had a small handful of non-hockey events. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 If they lost $24 million over the last year, then they're the worst businessmen of all time and should never be allowed around legal tender again. The organization actually seemed to function relatively well, though they did fail miserably at the whole arena-management thing for which they are paid handsomely because I'm pretty sure they still only had a small handful of non-hockey events.I think that's the problem, and always has been, even functioning well the Coyotes are a money sink. It's just not destined to work in Glendale (if not Phoenix as a whole). All of these ownership moves just seem poised to delay the inevitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still MIGHTY Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I'll be sad when we lose this from our lives.AS THE COYOTES TURN Quote | ANA | LAA | LAR | LAL | ASU | CSULB | USMNT | USWNT | LAFC | OCSC | MAN UTD | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Yes, preseason, but woof. At least an NHL team is being honest for once. I hope. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypower Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Yes, preseason, but woof. At least an NHL team is being honest for once. I hope. For reference, the Red Deer-Moose Jaw WHL game on the same date in Moose Jaw (population: 32,132) had an attendance of 3044. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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