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Interesting Times In Tampa
by Paul on 06/25/08 at 09:19 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
There is a riveting sideshow under way in Tampa these days, a Steinbrenner-ish quality to the way the Lightning conducts their business that comes mainly from their two new larger-than-life owners, Oren Koules and Len Barrie, who seem to know just enough about hockey to be both fascinating and a little dangerous at the same time.
Koules played junior hockey in Western Canada; Barrie was an NHLer for a short time, before both made small fortunes in film and real estate respectively – enough cash to cobble together an ownership group to buy a team that as recently as 2004 won the Stanley Cup, but four years later, was dead last in the NHL, a fall from grace so complete that it landed them the next great emerging talent, Steven Stamkos, in last week’s annual entry draft.
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Has Tampa Bay ever received as much ink as they have in the past two weeks? Not even winning the Cup brought them this much press. Guess the new owners at least know something about marketing. They may be meddlesome, but it will at least provide interesting copy.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 06/26/08 at 09:25 AM ET