Here's an excuse to talk hockey on my blog... hell yes.
This is from forbes.com this morning:
Greg Jamison still doesn’t have enough money to buy the Phoenix Coyotes from the NHL. I wrote seven months ago that the former executive of the San Jose Sharks couldn’t get prospective investors to buy into his game plan even with a new, sweetheart lease for Jobing.com Arena from Glendale.
Look for the team to move to Seattle if the sale of the Sacramento Kings to hedge fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is finalized
Now does mean Seattle is a lock? Nope. But, time is running out in Phoenix for them to get the $$$$ together to keep the team there.
The story mentions Quebec City as another possibility. It doesnt mention Toronto which is talking about building another rink in Markham to try and track down a second NHL team in the city. Kansas City, Houston and Hamilton, Ontario occasionially get brought up too, but Seattle has a bunch of dudes with money and a new arena (thanks Chris Hansen!). Even if this doesn't go through, rumors are the NHL wants to expand from 30 to 32 teams anyway (bad idea, but whatever)... and Seattle will surely be one of those two.
Besides, I've seen 3 or 4 games in Glendale. That rink is always about half full (if that). It's sad. No one down there cares.
One thing you may or may not know about my dumb ass is that I'm a ridiculously huge hockey fan. My wife and I do crap like this just to get to hockey cities....
In the six years I've been in Seattle, it's always been my thought that this city would embrace an NHL team. After all, Seattle embraced soccer and thats the most boring, slowest, waste of time "game" on Earth (including bowling). So, I'm literally foaming at the mouth at the thought of this happening so I can slap on my Blackhawks jersey and be an over the top meatball, loud mouthed fan to all you Coyotes fans. Either way, huge step forward today in Phoenix.
Now back to my regularly scheduled posts about dumb viral videos and even dumber Kardashians. Carry on!
