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Balsillie Continues To Get It Wrong
by Paul on 05/06/09 at 09:00 AM ET
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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
Jim Balsillie is well on his way to becoming the dumbest, most stubborn, successful entrepreneur around.
How else to explain his latest hockey outburst—his clumsy, all-too-public attempt to bully the National Hockey League into allowing him to purchase the now-bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes franchise and move it to southern Ontario.
If all he is attempting here is to find his name in the headlines, he is certainly accomplishing that.
But if he honestly believes he can pull an end-run on commissioner Gary Bettman, secure an NHL franchise, move it, and use a public website to drum up support for a seventh Canadian franchise, then he is either getting terrible advice or he is simply fond of banging his head against the wall. Because that’s all he can accomplish here. This is a war he may not be able to win.
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