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What’s Going On In Tampa?
by Paul on 02/27/09 at 07:55 AM ET
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from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province,
Like stories of UFO sightings and Wilt Chamberlain’s love life, it’s hard to know where the truth ends and fiction begins with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
If you believe half the things you hear around the hockey world, you’d be convinced the ownership group led by Oren Koules and Len Barrie is holding its operation together with food stamps and returns from empties.
You’d also believe the franchise will revert to original owner William Davidson at the end of this season, that the house of cards Koules and Barrie have constructed will collapse and the NHL will be left with yet another public embarrassment.
That, at least, is the big story. But the other intrigues surrounding the Bolts are just as entertaining. There are the ongoing rumours concerning franchise icon Vinny Lecavalier. There are stories about financing and payrolls and papered houses and Barrie’s personal finances and Lightning employees being charged for parking—all of which creates the impression that this isn’t an NHL franchise so much as it’s the reincarnation of a WHA franchise.
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