News Article: Lebreton...Interesting...NCC

[Stylizer1]

Lots of rumours about Melnyk's health rapidly failing and the Penguins, a team in a weak market and a not great near-future outlook (Crosby is starting to fade and Malkin is q UFA), selling for almost a billion means the time to sell is now.

I'm worried about someone buying the team to move it though.

Where are these rumours of his health issue's?

 

[Ralph Malfredsson]

Lots of rumours about Melnyk's health rapidly failing and the Penguins, a team in a weak market and a not great near-future outlook (Crosby is starting to fade and Malkin is q UFA), selling for almost a billion means the time to sell is now.

I'm worried about someone buying the team to move it though.

Can I ask where the rumours are about his health failing?

 

[Ice-Tray]

Do I remember correctly that his kids have little to no interest in the owning the team?

Eugene has always talked about wanting to leave the team to his kids as a legacy, but if they have zero interest in the team things may change on that front.

If his health is starting to fail, it’s sometimes a thing that people will do; settle their affairs. Sometimes it’s cleaning out the storage room and having a garage sale, and sometimes it might be dealing with the sale of an NHL team ‘properly’ so that the kids who have no interest in the team, and perhaps aren’t business people, don’t have to deal with it.

Pure speculation, but the team/organization has been weird lately. Definitely spending on the long term assets to keep them in place, while not really doing much in the short term in terms of spending. The notion that the team needs an new arena and that it’s open to new locations has been floated out, and there have slowly been some execs hired to fill key roles.

And now silence…..

 

[Ice-Tray]

Where are these rumours of his health issue's?

The good old eye test i believe . He does not look well, even compared to a few years ago.

 

[Stylizer1]

The good old eye test i believe . He does not look well, even compared to a few years ago.

Any pic to go from? Haven't seen him in the media as of late.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Where are these rumours of his health issue's?

I am sure you are very familiar with 4 and 8chan

 

[Ice-Tray]

Any pic to go from? Haven't seen him in the media as of late.

I’m not going down that road. I’m sure google can help you.

 

[Stylizer1]

I am sure you are very familiar with 4 and 8chan

I'm not

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Do I remember correctly that his kids have little to no interest in the owning the team?

This is what is being passed around. He probably wants to sell himself rather than let his daughters do it, he's likely to get a better price

 

[Stylizer1]

I’m not going down that road. I’m sure google can help you.

I did and found nothing

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

He did receive a liver transplant and it's been over 5 years iirc. You really just need to read up on some statistics to know the odds of a long life are reduced significantly.

 

[Stylizer1]

He did receive a liver transplant and it's been over 5 years iirc. You really just need to read up on some statistics to know the odds of a long life are reduced significantly.

Someone posted he isn't looking well and I wanted to see it. Looked and didn't find anything as of late.

 

[Daffy]

If he sells really hope it's to a local buyer.

 

[ksens]

Melnyk sells the team. The new owners are people who can actually make an arena deal with the NCC and other layers of government instead of just piss them off, and we have a new arena downtown in the next 5 years. And they simultaneously flush Dorion and anyone he has hired down the toilet and bring in a competent front office.

The dream. I want to believe.

 

[ksens]

To be fair, people in the C-suite typically don't give a couple of weeks of notice - months is much more common. Her starting in February is very normal.

I still want to believe.

 

[TheNewEra]

This rumor of him selling has been dangled infront of us way too much. Until it actually happens it's all nonsense

 

[Silencio]

Someone posted he isn't looking well and I wanted to see it. Looked and didn't find anything as of late.

Here's a recent video with Melnyk:

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Someone posted he isn't looking well and I wanted to see it. Looked and didn't find anything as of late.

For sure, just adding that as we had read about it a lot when it was looking like a possible option for my mom. If you see the survival statistics it does not paint a rosy picture.

 

[Fandlauer]

'Always open and interested': Eugene Melnyk hasn't ruled out a new arena for LeBreton Flats

'Always open and interested': Eugene Melnyk hasn't ruled out a new arena for LeBreton Flats | Ottawa Citizen

 

[Stylizer1]

Here's a recent video with Melnyk:

Thanks I don't use social media.

 

[Ralph Malfredsson]

For sure, just adding that as we had read about it a lot when it was looking like a possible option for my mom. If you see the survival statistics it does not paint a rosy picture.

Sorry to hear about your mom dude. Not easy.

 

[Masked]

Here's a recent video with Melnyk:

He looks like he's in his 70s. For example, he's just 2 years old than Pierre McGuire.

assennayo

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Sorry to hear about your mom dude. Not easy.

Thanks, it has been a rough go for sure.

 

[Stylizer1]

Joe Rogan. He's a Rogan zealot.

No, I enjoy his interviews. There is a difference.

 

[Ralph Malfredsson]

He looks like he's in his 70s. For example, he's just 2 years old than Pierre McGuire.

assennayo

agreed - he's not jaundiced, doesn't act encephalopathic, doesn't look like he's had steroids (treatment for rejection). Maybe a bit catabolic but par for the course for age and his morbidity. Don't think the eye test matches him being in dire straits at all.