Ever since Jerry Moyes decided to take the Phoenix Coyotes to bankruptcy the NHL has chosen to take a hard line against the Moyes-Balsillie scheme but when it comes to the court proceedings their hard line stance has been softened by the judge. Initially the NHL claimed vehemently that Jerry Moyes did not have the [...]
Yesterday the court, upon request by Jerry Moyes’s legal team, requested that the NHL present to the court all the information it has on the discussions the NHL has had with Jerry Reinsdorf and his interest in purchasing the Phoenix Coyotes. Instead of doing so, this morning the NHL formally objected to that request stating [...]
According to CBC, and other sources, the bankruptcy court has, upon request from Jerry Moyes, ordered the NHL to turn over documents related to Reinsdorf’s interest in buying the Phoenix Coyotes. The NHL has claimed that Reinsdorf had shown interest in purchasing the Coyotes but as of yet we really don’t know how serious that [...]
So I sit down for dinner at around 6:30 last night and decide that it is a little quiet so I turn on the TV and watch CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada pre-game show. During the show they had a 15 minute interview with Jim Balsillie (click the link and then click on Inside Hockey: [...]
What happened to the Phoenix Coyote’s yesterday is what many people suspected may happen to them for a while. They went bankrupt. They went bankrupt despite the fact that over the past year Gary Bettman has continued to tell anyone who would listen that the NHL as a whole and its member teams are generally [...]
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