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Phil Anschutz One Powerful Man
by Paul on 08/30/07 at 07:20 AM ET
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from Evan Weiner at the NY Sun,
NHL fans are about to find out just how powerful the owner of the Los Angeles Kings, Phil Anschutz, is. Anschutz — who is not a publicity hound and rarely gives interviews — now has a chance to orchestrate the league’s next expansion between now and 2009 by placing teams into arenas he has built or is building in Kansas City and Las Vegas….
The NHL’s expansion plans were solidified when Anschutz’s AEG entered into a partnership with Harrah’s to build an arena on Harrah’s property near the Las Vegas strip. The new building will be opened in 2010 and it appears that Las Vegas already has an owner in movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who has spoken with NHL officials about placing a team in Las Vegas.
Neither Kansas City nor Las Vegas is a big TV market. But if Anschutz wants teams in those markets, the odds are pretty good that his fellow NHL owners, along with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly, will see it his way.
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I have no doubt that AEG, one of the world’s largest entertainment companies, will get what it wants, as will Mr. Anschutz himself—he’s been a good owner by Bettman’s standards, supporting the lockout, and he’s offering up a significant sum in expansion money plus two NHL-viable rinks—as to whether the markets are viable long-term is a different story—and, at this point, I’m all but certain that the NHL’s simply working out the logistics of how a team would operate in Vegas and yet separate itself from organized gambling…
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 08/30/07 at 05:37 PM ET