FinnishCoyote
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Confirmed with Link: All-Purpose "Days of Our Meruelo" Talk
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LAIslanderFan
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Here's my fantasy and some of it is really far fetched:
- AM purchases the land on June 27th
- On draft day June 28th, it's announced that the NHL and AM had a a stipulation in place to purchase the expansion team if AM won the auction to begin play in the 2027 season.
- the NHL makes the AZ team a lottery team in the 2025 draft so they can start compiling young players (the odds of drafting an 18 year old that's ready for the NHL are almost nil), 2 years prior to the NHL team taking the ice.
- the AZ team will get the first overall pick in the 2026 draft and 2027 draft
- this is really out of the box, put in place an AHL team for the 2026 season (a year before the NHL season hits the ice for the AZ team) I'm not sure how you do this, if a player needs to be called up. It would just be nice to have a team to cheer for that's going to be affiliated with the NHL club and might have future players on the roster. Someone else work on how this will work and don't criticize me. I started this stating in was a fantasy.
- AM purchases the land on June 27th
- On draft day June 28th, it's announced that the NHL and AM had a a stipulation in place to purchase the expansion team if AM won the auction to begin play in the 2027 season.
- the NHL makes the AZ team a lottery team in the 2025 draft so they can start compiling young players (the odds of drafting an 18 year old that's ready for the NHL are almost nil), 2 years prior to the NHL team taking the ice.
- the AZ team will get the first overall pick in the 2026 draft and 2027 draft
- this is really out of the box, put in place an AHL team for the 2026 season (a year before the NHL season hits the ice for the AZ team) I'm not sure how you do this, if a player needs to be called up. It would just be nice to have a team to cheer for that's going to be affiliated with the NHL club and might have future players on the roster. Someone else work on how this will work and don't criticize me. I started this stating in was a fantasy.
Mosby
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TheLegend
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After all this time we’re f****** owed something.New arena, new expansion team, Auston Matthews...you don't ask for much.
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Translation: I sure as shit want to... weasel my way out of this.
Shwan
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Absolutely. No argument here.
Just saying it's very surreal (and sucks) that we're now at a point everyone sees what a few of us saw 3 years ago, but it's because of a situation that really wasn't exactly his fault per se.
and I'll be honest right, if Meruelo came out and said he f***ed up and is working to fix it then I would kinda give him a bone here. If, the carrot on the end of the stick is a new franchise, debt free, then that would on paper alter his approach to everything.
It's not a distressed asset he's trying to mangle into some scheme, this is petty simple now: Build Arena, pay for team, get new team. You really don't have to try to find subtext on all his moves now.
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TheLegend
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We’re up to 6-D level chess here Feck.
LAIslanderFan
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The timeline seems to indicate it all came about when the auction date was announced.Janet Yellen or Jerome Powell have just as much blame as Alex Meruelo for what's gone on in the last 72 hours
My SPECULATION is that the NHL knew at some point earlier in the season (around the All Star game?) they were going to force a sale at the end of the regular season. I don't think they thought AM would go through with finding an alternative site any time soon and it would be reasonable to ask AM to sell (because of continuing to play in Mulett). When the auction date was set, it accelerated everything. If the NHL was going to force a sale at the end of the season, they couldn't let AM go through with the auction if he didn't have a team. It appears AM might still want a team and the NHL offered him a chance to purchase an expansion team to keep him happy. I still don't believe AM knew about this and XG was being sincere when he came out and said they were going to the auction and plan B was relocation.
Think about it, if AM knew about all of this, he wouldn't have sent XG out to promote it so much and in such a big way on the air. They just would have kept silent and let the cards fall when the season ended.
I honestly think AM was blindsided or the NHL brought it up to him and he thought he had wiggle room and he could overrule it.
Mosby
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I can’t even remember the last time AM spoke publicly. I think just twice in his tenure - Day 1 and at BA’s hiring.
The Lighthouse
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Thanks for your Isles/Yotes perspective! This is exactly the thing. So many of the issues are familiar to us. Attendance mocking. Feeling torn over broke/sometimes hostile ownership. Pinning hopes on referendums, proposals. The odd exciting playoff run. Wanted things in AZ to turn around for the team and I hope that if/when a team returns, and I think there's a feeling out there it's more "when" than "if," it's with committed ownership and the team can hit the ground running and hopefully not need that long term rebuild.
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Shwan
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I said it on BoH but it's not a coincidence this all came crashing down hours after the US Consumer Price Index came out.
The league is sitting on a mountain of debt in the Yotes name and it appears they finally decided that keeping it is no longer a tenable position.
Regardless of his intentions why, the rumors and statement releases clearly show Alex is not exactly willingly complying with what's going down.
So I'm guessing that the idea of "You get one last shot but If you screw up we're giving the team to Smith" has been the long standing plan but given the rapidly devolving economic and political environment, the league went back on their deal last week.
TheLegend
"Just say it 3 times..."
DustyDangler
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TheLegend
"Just say it 3 times..."
rt
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TheLegend
"Just say it 3 times..."
This has to be one of those poor social admins who was typing in the text from a memo.
Given how all these people don’t even know if they’ll have a job after next week I can cut them some slack.
DustyDangler
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Look for hidden cameras...I think we might be getting punk'd.
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DustyDangler
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Doesn't care or is just a bloody amateur...can't tell which.
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He can be two things
Llewzaher
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I think you need at least 1000 words to accurately detect if it is AI generated .
But nothing would surprise me
