Well, Llama, it's good you're giving Mr. Leblanc advice, because I'm guessing he reads these posts. In the second link in your post #733 above, the one with the video clip with his wish for a share of the transaction privilege taxes, is another video where he says (paraphrasing): "I guess I shouldn't always be saying things will happen in two weeks - I read the social media, and maybe I shouldn't be doing that either, but they comment on it there, so I'll have to be more realistic and not say two weeks any more."
It's in one of the first videos in your link. I don't know what other social media would have multiple references to "two weeks" that he talks about - maybe the Arizona team page in HF Boards, but I'm guessing he's reading it here. If he is (or not), I'll give my take: I think the Coyotes' leadership takes some unwarranted flak here. I don't think they're "clowns" - I doubt I could run a franchise well if I had to. But they're woefully undercapitalized. I ran a much smaller business once, and that's always a killer. And as Mesa wrote above, the operating revenues will probably never be in the black. But more than anything else, given the history of bad faith before this ownership group even came on the scene, they need to be upfront with everybody about what they want to do, and how they want to accomplish it. Nobody in this saga has any credibility, not the NHL, not the franchise, not the politicians. And IceEdge hasn't done anything that I see to give fans, government, or observers like us that faith. Maybe it isn't even possible, given how badly Bettman/the NHL and others already poisoned the well. Strung out way too many people along the way, possibly including Mr. Leblanc and Co. themselves. A gigantic mess not entirely their fault.
