There have been a lot of developments over the past couple days in the Phoenix Coyote situation and the next week will be an interesting one for sure. Yesterday the NHL Board of Governors voted to approve Jerry Reinsdorf as a potential owner of the Phoenix Coyotes while voting against Jim Balsille and postponing any [...]
If you haven’t heard yet, Judge Redfield T. Baum has ruled against the Balsillie bid to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Hamilton. This means that the Coyotes will remain in Phoenix for at least one more season. In the 21-page document he said the court didn’t believe there was enough time to [...]
Over the past couple of days I have heard all kinds of numbers thrown out on what a reasonable transfer would be, most of these numbers just picked out of the air and given little thought from the people tossing them out there. I have heard numbers like a $300 million transfer fee plus additional [...]
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 [...]
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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David Johnson