$212.5M Offer to Move Coyotes to Hamilton

[Nerroth]

If the kind of cross-Cascadian rivalries that have existed between the Whitecaps, Sounders and Timbers could be replicated in the NHL, that could be pretty neat.

 

[Aragorn]

^
^^ then what about Seattle? Since losing the Sonics, they don't have a winter-into-spring sport anymore.

Seattle doesn't work because the politicians there are idiots and the ones at the top revel in their elite smugness. Just look up "Frank Chopp" and "Richard Petty."

Where their two money-making super stadiums now sit, some of the politicians wanted parking lots there instead.

 

[Captain Ice]

Hockey in Arizona was always a stupid idea anyway.

That was what I thought when they first announced the idea.

Not such a dumb idea when you realize we'd had a minor league hockey team since around 1973 or so.

 

[eastman23]

Apparently Bettman prefers Winnipeg over southern Ontario...

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has allegedly said he would rather see the Phoenix Coyotes move to Winnipeg than Hamilton, according to documents filed in the team's bankruptcy court case.

Earl Scudder, a lawyer who works for Coyotes majority owner Jerry Moyes, filed an affidavit Friday that said Bettman told him this last month when told there was a buyer interested in buying the team and moving it to southern Ontario.

According to The Canadian Press news agency, Bettman allegedly told Scudder that Hamilton's Copps Coliseum isn't an ideal destination because it's over 30 years old, saying "if the team did return to Canada, it would be Winnipeg," according to the filed document.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Hockey in Arizona was always a stupid idea anyway.

That was what I thought when they first announced the idea.

Not such a dumb idea when you realize we'd had a minor league hockey team since around 1973 or so.

1967 actually. [/nitpick]

 

[SmoothieX]

No that Glowing puck was the worst Idea FOX had until they come up with Digger. ( but thats another story)

The glowing puck was awesome! That was one of the reasons I like hockey on Fox.

Digger on the other hand can go jump in a lake.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

No that Glowing puck was the worst Idea FOX had until they come up with Digger. ( but thats another story)

The glowing puck was awesome! That was one of the reasons I like hockey on Fox...

I know what you are saying -- it may help a beginner hockey fan follow the puck. However, if a person understands hockey, there is no need for the glow puck. I have no problem following the puck, and I and a lot of other hockey fans (who should have been FOX's target audience) found the glow puck to be very distracting.

Perhaps FOX could have used the glow puck on a few occasions, perhaps special games advertised for "hockey newcomers", but every game was too much.

The analogy I often use is football (the American game, not soccer):
Most of the time during the NFL football telecasts, the ball cannot be seen. If a person who never saw football before tried to watch a game, they would wonder which of the 22 people on the field had the ball. But the NFL never felt the need for a "glow ball" because the people watching the game understand the game enough to know where the ball is, even when it can't be seen (for instance, under center at the beginning of a play).

I understand the FOX was trying to expose the game to new fans, but I don't think EVERY game needed the glowpuck.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

The glowing puck would have been alright for occasional replays, but it was very distracting. Especially the cheesy streak it created after a slapshot. It looked like a bad arcade game.

 

[Davros]

The glowing puck would have been alright for occasional replays, but it was very distracting. Especially the cheesy streak it created after a slapshot. It looked like a bad arcade game.

I could hardly keep track of where the puck was without it.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Update from NHL.com:

PHOENIX -- The hearing related to the Phoenix Coyotes in a U.S. Bankruptcy hearing is under way here.

But there won't be a decision Tuesday, according to Judge Redfield T. Baum.

"To save the suspense I'm not going to rule from the bench today," Baum told the court.

Baum has ordered mediation between the NHL and Jerry Moyes to determine who has control of the franchise.

"The court orders both parties to mediate the control issues," Baum said prior to a recess. "The court expects the parties to pursue that as quickly as possible and wants a status report ... May 27 at 9 a.m."
Baum is presiding over a crammed courtroom and will ultimately determine if Moyes has the right to put the NHL team into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.