They stay inactive. Didn't Winnipeg petition to get their stuff back though?So does the inactive Coyotes franchise still exist, or is Utah going absorb its history?
Was gonna say the same. This guy pulled off a heist, and the owners ard the league should be ashamed of allowing him to buy.Hell of a grift he pulled off. A billion dollar payday while putting up barely a hundred something million for the Coyotes some years back.
Bettman ends up looking even more clowny than usual
At least the NHL got rid of Meruelo. I find it disgraceful at how the MLB is standing by as Fisher gutted a team, neglected a fan base and is moving to a next city without a new park officially ready to be built.Alex Meruelo and John Fisher got to be the worst owners in sports
So does the inactive Coyotes franchise still exist, or is Utah going absorb its history?
At least he was somewhat legit and I use somewhat very heavily, bussiness man compared to SpanosI know there's been some real crooks that have owned NHL teams but this guy is up there as one of the worst in the league's history. Hope he has to pay back every hotel, every employee, every damn water bill and bar tab he skipped out on out of his own pocket.
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I'm sure a lot of people wish he'd done this a year or two ago. I don't love the idea of the NHL expanding further, but to give the Arizona fans their team back, I'm perfectly ok with it.
I’d very much prefer to keep the history separate. Utah has all the players and contracts, but they are an entirely new franchise (technically an expansion team without the expansion draft). After decades of problems, I think it’s for the best to just let the coyotes rest and build something new. Absolutely hate that it’s at the expense of loyal Arizonan fans, but this won’t be the fresh start of a new team it’s intended to be if the history gets dragged back along.Assuming the rights are non-transferable (and one would assume that is the case) then the franchise will fold when he walks away from it. This is the first case of a folded franchise in several decades. It means the Coyotes history goes in the same category as the NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates — an official part of the record, but not continued forward as a current franchise.
Of course the league could still send their history to Utah with the stroke of a pen, and given the circumstances that might be the sensible thing to do.
is he giving back some of the money?