I'm really surprised. Hoping this is just last minute posturing to get a deal done for this season. I can't imagine they are actually going to fold, or move, this late in the off-season, but stranger things have happened.
BREAKING: Newfoundland Growlers Being Forced Out of St.John's - Press Conference Tuesday
Royals:
ACTUALLY, THIS HAS everything to do with Colorado being forced up by the Avalanche from the Telegram article as to why Newfoundland and MacDonald followed the procedure that got the franchise granted...... Colorado owners claimed their dormant franchise should've been the one granted to Deacon... not as an expansion team...
Colorado paid the ECHL 500k TO EXIT THE LEAGUE, but the owners claim they were denied the opportunity to sell the Eagles franchise for transfer, so what did the Eagles do..... they forced the league to commission a 4th version of the Kelly Cup....
Colorado did that in 2017. but now no longer has the rights to sue the ECHL OVER not completing a sale/transfer to another market similar to the Alaska transfer of territory agreement in Portland....
further clouding the issue was the Edge and that sidebar as to whether the two ownerships would coexist at Mile One, by the time that had been quelled, it was March of 2018, 90 days after the Eagles transfer window had closed...
Colorado owners claim they were not aware of Deacon, the Deacon group and the League position is they knew, but it's the decision of the League that's binding...
now the ECHL Eagles were estimated to be worth 800K, had the league chosen to go that route, and not expansion, which ultimately Deacon paid reportedly 1 M US to enter....
so who's @ fault here, is it Deacon, the Eagles or the league in general for not allowing a sale or transfer of a dormant franchise rather than expansion.... it truly has nothing to do with SJSE ON whether a lease could've been done or not
link to telegram article:
thetelegram.com/sports/hockey/kelly-cup-brouhaha-is-linked-to-newfoundland-growlers-entry-into-echl-320345/