I mean, given the state of the franchise any buyer would be crazy to offer Melnyk full pop. As much as it sucks as a fan, the smart play is just to wait Melnyk out.
Sounds to me like the start of a negotiation, and that there is interested owners in Ottawa.
All good news for us Sens fans
400m isn't even close to enough to be serious consideration.
Didn't Carolina just sell for a value of 420m? Ottawa is a Canadian franchise to begin with, and at the BoG meeting all of the lebreton shenanigans were still in their infancy. So a serious offer would definitely have needed to be in the 550-600 range.
This is like Dorion saying that he gave an offer to Karlsson. Sure there was some big number attached but the structure of it showed it wasn't serious.
There was no mention about whether the "offer" was made by someone local, or out of town.
"I suspect Melnyk doesn’t lose much sleep over balancing the books at the Canadian Tire Centre.
Maybe we we should believe him when he insists he isn’t going anywhere."
Rick Gibbons
GIBBONS: Wild speculation swirls around Sens owner Eugene Melnyk
Just another PR push by Melnyk and being peddled by the bots.
You can also factor in that this will be the 2nd straight year that games in the new year are virtually guaranteed to have no meaning for the team's hopes of making the playoffs, season ticket renewals are likely to drop even further, and if no sale is made before moving out Stone and/or Duchene, it will likely make any buyer looking for an expensive toy realize he is going to get Ford Focus results for many years while hoping to get the parts to make it a Ferrari. This while LeBreton moves to pipe dream status.
Scrooeuge's selling points get even weaker as time goes by, and in the summer, fans get to see the Avs take the next Svechnikov with our pick due to the Point Per Dollar Champ's cheapness and meddling. |The hits keep on coming.
At the same time, if Melnyk wasn't serious about selling it would've never made it to the NHL to decline.
Can we assume those announcements about fincancing were negotiating tactics?
I'd never heard of a professional sports team announcing financing like they did. Seemed really strange to me.
A team with no payroll is worth more than a last place,everyone locked in long term team
Personally, I think it was an act of defiance to the media and fans. Saying "bleep you, you may not come but I will borrow to cover up the shortfalls...I'm not going anywhere"
I hope that Melnyk will sell also. but even with a new owner theres no way Karlsson is coming back here. it ain't happening im sorry.any rumblings of a sale are always good news, especially something so recent. Hope for more offers and bye bye Melnyk and Karlsson back in the off season.
Average is 15th, Ottawa is 24th, or bottom 20 percentile of the league.Ottawa has a better than average roster
If you look at the past 20 years, the three franchises with the most playoff appearances are San Jose, Ottawa and Detroit.
Ottawa has a better than average roster, better than average prospect pool, an average arena in a great market that up until a few years ago (3-4) had great attendance. We also have a new arena on the way at some point.
This franchise, even in its current burning tire fire state, is still worth much more than an expansion franchise.
The are two reasons the offer was so low. Either it was a local faceslap to Eugene for his outlandish behaviour or it was an outside bid that planned on relocation, and factored that fee into their offer making it lower.
The problem with buying the Sens right now is it’s not just the $500 million you have to put in, there are other massive Captitam investments pending - Lebreton at $4 billion, and even just upgrading the CTC for the next 5-7 years until you can move which is probably easily another $50 million.
You’re not just buying a team and putting up a ‘under new management sign’ - you’re involved with multiple layers of government and the largest investment in Ottawa history. Very complicated and many richies don’t want this type of deal, they just want the team so they can watch it skate around and show Sparty Cat off to their friends