NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator

[The_Admiral]

oh god

FACT: Councilwoman Alvarez asked that our Mayor and Councilman Lieberman meet with a start-up Latino management company to explore their offer for managing the city-owned arena.

WHY? Could a Latino majority on City Council reject the Jamison Group lease management agreement and replace it with this start-up company with no real experience and at a higher cost with fewer guaranteed event nights?

DEY TUK OUR SUBSIDIES

DURKA DURR

this is the best thing ever

[Kevin W.]

LMAO. Talking about trying to avoid "higher costs" and the Coyotes in the same sentence. She does know the Coyotes have been in the red since their inception, right?

[rams80]

LMAO. Talking about trying to avoid "higher costs" and the Coyotes in the same sentence. She does know the Coyotes have been in the red since their inception, right?

Let's be fair. The Coyotes were in the black the year they didn't play hockey.

[Gothamite]

Now it makes sense - why Bettman is inexplicably driving full-speed to the work stoppage cliff, just when the NHL had recovered from the last disastrous lockout.

[NJTank]

Just thought I put this here to show how I m covering this absurdity

History of the Coyotes

http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/phxaz/coyotes.html

[Eye]

Just thought I put this here to show how I m covering this absurdity

History of the Coyotes

http://www.sportsecy...az/coyotes.html

You aren't really covering it though; just posting a link to your website for views.

[Mings]

If you can't make a legible post on a message board, why would you expect someone to visit your site and writeup of the Coyotes?

Stick to what your site is good at Frank, the rare pictures/picture galleries.

That said re: admiral's post - HAHAHAHAHA! Maybe its not the economy making cities grow broke, its the idiots who run some of them.

[Breakwood]

That said re: admiral's post - HAHAHAHAHA! Maybe its not the economy making cities grow broke, its the idiots who run some of them.

Ding ding ding! Winner! Gagnant!

[RyanMcD29]

On a different note... might as well completely wipe Kansas City off any possible NHL city list AND THAT MEANS YOU EVERYONE AT HFBOARDS AND YOUR "ZOMG COYOTES AND/OR ISLANDERS TO KC!?!?!" THREADS, as they've got a very small crowd tonight for college hockey, with a pretty good lineup no less

[The_Admiral]

I wiped Kansas City off the list when the mayor said they make more money without anchor tenants than they would with them, but then again I'm not an idiot.

[Kevin W.]

LMAO. Talking about trying to avoid "higher costs" and the Coyotes in the same sentence. She does know the Coyotes have been in the red since their inception, right?

Let's be fair. The Coyotes were in the black the year they didn't play hockey.

Point taken.

[RedSox44]

I wiped Kansas City off the list when the mayor said they make more money without anchor tenants than they would with them, but then again I'm not an idiot.

I didn't even realize KC was still being bandied (is that even a word?) about as a destination for an NHL franchise. Didn't an exhibition game there draw like negative-200 people?

[njmeadowlanders]

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2012/10/16/3511126/nhl-expansion-toronto-quebec-lockout-2012

The NHL could add two expansion teams in Toronto and Quebec City once a new collective bargaining agreement has been reached, according to a tweet from Jason Kay, Editor-in-Chief of The Hockey News. It has long been thought that the league was more likely to relocate financially struggling teams like the Phoenix Coyotes than bring in expansion teams, but that may not be the case any longer.

It's probably not true, but the mere fact that I'm not totally just dismissing it as total BS off the bat says something about the NHL, doesn't it?

[Kevin W.]

OITGDNHL.

[TheOldRoman]

No way in hell the Maple Leafs let in another team.

[ninersdd]

No way in hell the Maple Leafs let in another team.

Why not Seattle since it appears the arena is going to be built?

[crashcarson15]

No way in hell the Maple Leafs let in another team.

Why not Seattle since it appears the arena is going to be built?

Does it really work in the current CBA to put in for an expansion team that may very well not come into existence (lack of arena) until the next CBA?

[LMU]

I will never understand the obsession with Toronto, Part Deux. It's almost akin to MLB placing an expansion AL team in Boston. Good luck tapping into that spoken for fan base.

[IceCap]

I will never understand the obsession with Toronto, Part Deux. It's almost akin to MLB placing an expansion AL team in Boston. Good luck tapping into that spoken for fan base.

It'll never work in terms of developing a solid fanbase for the team. The only success Toronto 2.0 would have would be related to how they could benefit the Leafs or their fans (the territorial fee, the competition, providing a means to see the Leafs play, etc...).

[The_Admiral]

Hamilton would've worked in 1993 but not now. Toronto2 will never work, unless, like you said, it really does exist just to fatten up RogeBell on territorial penalties.