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Bettman On Moving The Coyotes
by Paul on 05/15/09 at 03:29 PM ET
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from Curtis Eichelberger of Bloomberg,
Research in Motion Ltd. Co-Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie’s effort to buy the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Ontario may endanger the stability of all U.S. sports leagues, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman said….
“You can not have a stable league if franchises can be uprooted at the blink of an eye on a personal whim,” Bettman said in an interview at league offices in New York. “It is up to the partners to decide who would be a good partner.”...
Bettman said he would only consider moving the team to another city if he can’t find a buyer, which is unlikely.
He said he understands how much Canadians love hockey, although more research has to be done before deciding whether Hamilton, a city of about 500,000 some 40 miles from Toronto.
“It’s not anything we’ve looked at, and before you make a decision that will involve hundreds of millions of dollars, that is something that is going to have to be studied,” he said. “It’s the reason we have relocation procedures.”
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“You can not have a stable league if franchises can be uprooted at the blink of an eye on a personal whim,” Bettman said in an interview at league offices in New York. “It is up to the partners to decide who would be a good partner.”…
Bettman didn’t actually say this on the same day that William ‘Boots’ Del Biaggio is facing six years in prison for pleading guilty to one charge of fraud for using forged financial documents to obtain US$110 million in loans from several banks and two NHL owners, did he? 
Posted by dash_pinched from Rumour Mill Bay on 05/15/09 at 04:04 PM ET
Bettman didn’t actually say this on the same day that William ‘Boots’ Del Biaggio is facing six years in prison for pleading guilty to one charge of fraud for using forged financial documents to obtain US$110 million in loans from several banks and two NHL owners, did he?
A company of thieves? Maybe criminals are just comfortable with their own kind.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/15/09 at 04:31 PM ET
Man, I wonder what Bettman was saying around the time the was running the Northstars, Nordiques and Jets out of their respective cities.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 05/15/09 at 05:36 PM ET
“You can not have a stable league if franchises can be uprooted at the blink of an eye on a personal whim.”
You mean, like, for instance, the Al Davis NFL??? The country’s most successful sports league? Somehow the NFL managed to survive not one, but TWO Al Davis moves. One of which left the country’s second biggest city without a franchise.
Try again, Gary.
Posted by jvwalt on 05/15/09 at 09:51 PM ET
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This is where the article started to lose me.
Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 05/15/09 at 03:49 PM ET