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"I don't think this site ever shows a greater display of ignorance than when Coyotes threads come up and people en masse act like they have zero understanding of why the NHL wants to invest in a top 10 most populated MSA centered by a top 5 most populated city in the US"

As he takes a page out of Bettman's book and ignores 30 years of failure.

Population means shit if no one cares about the sport, yet alone the team.

Meanwhile, eat shit Atlanta, Bettman is a shrewd investor and knows when to completely give up and abandon ship without really trying. Take your 8th largest MSA and blow it out your ass.
 
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No explanation of the Thrashers and Atlanta Spirit shit makes sense.

Why would the NHL let ASG buy the team under false pretenses, when it later came out that they had no interest in even owning the team?

Why does the league have no recourse when a team is purposely mismanaged and sabotaged?

Why were the owners against Jim Balsillie buying the Penguins and moving them, but perfectly okay with the Thrashers being sold with a poison pill caveat that essentially guaranteed the Thrashers being moved out of Atlanta?

Why is Bettman such a stupid bitch
 
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No explanation of the Thrashers and Atlanta Spirit shit makes sense.

Why would the NHL let ASG buy the team under false pretenses, when it later came out that they had no interest in even owning the team?

Why does the league have no recourse when a team is purposely mismanaged and sabotaged?

Why were the owners against Jim Balsillie buying the Penguins and moving them, but perfectly okay with the Thrashers being sold with a poison pill caveat that essentially guaranteed the Thrashers being moved out of Atlanta?

Why is Bettman such a stupid bitch
I can't speak for Atlanta but Uncle Gary knew the Burgh was an untapped gold mine if they could get quality ownership & a winning team. he was proven right as once they got Super Mario & later Sid the Kid the city proved it would more than support a well run organization. I think he kinda sees Phoenix the same way but they just have had worse luck getting decent ownership.
 

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We don't want Balsillie to buy the team because he wants to move them.

However, we are okay with the current ownership using the threat of relocation to secure a better arena deal.

Just a wee bit hypocritical.

According to the Toronto Sun, Balsillie initially promised to keep the team in the steel city, agreeing to help finance a new arena to replace "The Igloo." If no arena deal could be reached, Balsillie was free to relocate the franchise to Hamilton or Kitchner-Waterloo as he desired.

As reported in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the deal fell apart after Basillie was given a list of terms that included one to keep the franchise in Pittsburgh, making relocation unacceptable.

Would you look at that, the league does have a way to force certain demands upon prospective owners and effectively take leverage away from them.

Let's use that power to specifically prevent Balsillie from buying a team, but let's not use that in Atlanta in 2004 to ensure this new ownership group isn't a bunch of assholes.
 
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We don't want Balsillie to buy the team because he wants to move them.

However, we are okay with the current ownership using the threat of relocation to secure a better arena deal.

Just a wee bit hypocritical.



Would you look at that, the league does have a way to force certain demands upon prospective owners and effectively take leverage away from them.

Let's use that power to specifically prevent Balsillie from buying a team, but let's not use that in Atlanta in 2004 to ensure this new ownership group isn't a bunch of assholes.
Balsillie was NEVER going to keep the Pens in the Burgh. Uncle Gary knew that and therefore did everything he could to keep that from happening. He was trying to grow the game in the US, which he has done fairly successfully during his term as commish. Letting a team move to Hamilton or Kitchner was and is not in the best interest of making $$$$ for the owners.
 
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