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NHL Winning The Court Battles
by Paul on 06/23/09 at 07:03 PM ET
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from Steve Milton of the Hamilton Spectator,
Lawyers for the NHL verged on giddiness in court Monday, as they talked of the imminent Reinsdorf bid. The NHL knows Baum will be going over every clause with a fine-toothed legal comb, so their confidence has to be founded on the bid’s strength. After a very rough start, the NHL has been winning a lot of significant, if small, battles in Baum’s court recently, suggesting they’re learning to read his wishes.
But there have to be some big parachutes aboard this plane to nowhere. Nobody in their right financial mind will chain themselves to an irrevocable deal to stay in Glendale for another couple of decades. To fracture the old joke, the best way to create a billionaire is to take someone with two billion and let him run the Phoenix Coyotes.
So, there will be some kind of escape plan behind this bid that will let the NHL regain control of the desert from what, so far, has been Balsillie’s schedule. You can hardly blame the league for wanting to control its decisions, just as you can’t blame Balsillie for trying to put those decisions into court, where the NHL, with its sometimes questionable reasoning, doesn’t have the steering wheel.
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